Hearst was innate within San Francisco, California, the third of five girl of Randolph Apperson Hearst. She grew higher primarily in the loaded San Francisco suburbia of Hillsborough, California and attended Crystal Springs Uplands School.

She was kidnapped in February 4 1974 (shortly before her Twentieth birthday) from either her Berkeley, California apartment, that she shared with her groom-to-be Steven Weed, by an urban guerilla terrorist group called a Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA). Whilst a attempt to prisoner-swap Hearst for imprisoned SLA members failed, a SLA processed ransom demands which resulted in the donation per Hearst personal of $6 million worth of food to the poor people of the Bay Area. Fallowing a distribution of food, Hearst was however non freed.

Shortly thenceforth in April 15, 1974, she was photographed wielding an assault rifle when robbing a Sunset branch of the Hibernia Bank. Late communications from either her were issued under a anonym Tania and revealed that she was committed to the goals of the SLA. The warrant was issued for her arrest & inside September 1975, she was arrested in an flat by using more SLA members. Around her test, which began in January 15, 1976, Hearst claimed she had been locked blindfold around a closet & physically & sexually maltreated, which driven her to join the SLA. Her defense was largely depending as much as the claim that her actions can be attributed to a severe instance of "Stockholm syndrome," in which captives get sympathetic by using their capturer. Hearst farther argued she was coerced or even intimidated into her a share in the bank robbery.

Attorney F. Lee Bailey defended Patty Hearst. Hearst late said the famous lawyer did a super unfortunate job defending her. Legal analysts own said Bailey presented the super unfortunate example. He gave the super short & frail closing argument to the jury & numerous speculated he was intoxicated. Hearst was convicted of bank robbery in March 20. Her phrase was at length commuted by President Jimmy Carter, and Hearst was freed from either prisin on February 1, 1979. She was granted the fully pardon by President Bill Clinton on January 20, 2001, the final day of his presidency.

Fallowing her release from either prison, Hearst married her previous bodyguard, Bernard Shaw. She at present shacks quietly by owning her hubby & deuce girl around Connecticut.

Her lawyer, Albert Johnson of Boston, is presently treating a appeal of Pamela Smart before a federal court.

Hearst tells her version of cases beginning by using her snatch per SLA within her memoir Each Secret Tool. Opinion remains divided when to whether Hearst was coerced or even brainwashed when existence held per SLA.

Hearst's ill fame has led to her existence cast inside many films, including John Waters' Cry-Baby, Serial Mom, Pecker, Cecil B. DeMented, and A Dirty Shame. She was besides parodied in the 1976 film Network.

Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst is a documentary manufactured within 2004; it was number one known as Neverland, however a title got to become changed because of imaginable confusion by having a feature film Finding Neverland.

Quotes
"I was kidnapped by terrorists. It's not like I'm numb to this and think it can't happen. But get real! There's so much weeping and wailing and memorializing, my feeling is it'd be a lot healthier if people didn't externalize so much and kind of bucked up a little bit." - New York Daily News, October 10, 2005