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William Randolph Hearst II

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William Randolph Hearst II (born 1942) is an American businessman and a member of the Hearst family.

He is the son of business executive John Randolph Hearst and the grandson of publisher William Randolph Hearst III.

Life and career

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Hearst attended the University of San Francisco, where he studied business.[1] In 1966, he married Jennifer Erica Carolyn Gooch.[2]

During the 1974 kidnapping of Patty Heart by the Symbionese Liberation Army, Hearst's roommate was kidnapped and held hostage after being mistaken for Hearst.[3][4] Hearst was the executive producer of "A Voyage with Shakespeare with Francis Edmunds," a production at Emerson College in East Sussex from 1985 to 1987.[5] As of 1987, Hearst was living in Britain and was a certified Waldorf school teacher.[6]

He has been involved in legal disputes over the Hearst family estate, alongside his cousin Patty Hearst.[7][8][9][10][11][12] In 2006, Hearst founded Regenesis Power, a solar energy company.[13][14]

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