NEW YORK (AP) – Famed and infamous heiress Patty Hearst was back in the news Monday after a dog she co-owns won its group at the Westminster Kennel Club show.
A shih tzu called Rocket was picked as the top toy dog at Madison Square Garden.
Hearst is the granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst and gained great notoriety in 1974 when she was kidnapped by the radical group the Symbionese Liberation Army. She was seen holding a machine gun while robbing a California bank, and later spent almost two years in prison.
Her sentence was commuted by President Jimmy Carter. President Bill Clinton gave her a full pardon.
“People move on,” she said, smiling at Rocket. “I guess people somehow imagine you don’t evolve in your life. I have grown daughters and grand-daughters and other things that normal people have.”