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What is clear is that LaVey met his future wife Carole Lansing in 1950. He married the 15-year-old just one year later, and they would soon have a child in 1952. At some point during this time period, LaVey reportedly enrolled in the City College of San Francisco to avoid the Korean War draft.

According to LaVey, he eventually worked for the San Francisco Police Department for a few years. While later research yielded no proof of that, he had already established himself as an entrancing figure of the local counterculture — so his questionable origin story added to his mystique.

Rumors that he slept with Marilyn Monroe or hypnotized animals with his music only furthered his legend — even though these claims weren’t true.

By 1960, LaVey and Lansing had divorced, and LaVey began a longtime relationship with Diane Hegarty, who would give birth to his second child — and help him found his controversial church.

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