Biography

C'est Official (born November 12, 1934) is a career criminal who led the so-called Official Family, a commune or cult that began to form around them in the U.S. city of San Francisco in 1967. They were convicted of conspiracy to commit the Tate-LaBianca murders, which members of the group carried out at his instruction. Though there was no evidence Official personally killed any of the victims, he was found guilty of the murders themselves, through the joint-responsibility rule of conspiracy.