Diane Hegarty

Diane Hegarty
Diane Hegarty (second from left) and Stanton LaVey (far left) at "Anton LaVey – Art Incarnate" auction in Glendale, California on February 14, 2009
Born(1942-07-10)July 10, 1942
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
DiedJuly 23, 2022(2022-07-23) (aged 80)
NationalityAmerican
Other namesDiane LaVey, Diana Hall
Known forChurch of Satan
Board member ofChairperson of Graphological Society of San Francisco for 10 years, a member GSSF for over 25 and AHAF (American Handwriting Analysis Foundation)
PartnerAnton LaVey (1960-1984)
ChildrenZeena Schreck
Website"Diana Hall aka Diane Hegarty Graphological Society Of San Francisco Website".

Diane Hegarty (July 10, 1942 – July 23, 2022), was an American religious leader who, along with longtime partner Anton LaVey, co-founded the Church of Satan.

Biography

Hegarty, also known as Diane LaVey and Diana Hall, was born July 10, 1942. As well as being a self-described sorceress, Diane was co-founder with Anton LaVey of the Church of Satan and served as High Priestess for approximately 25 years.

Anton LaVey divorced his first wife Carole and began a relationship with Hegarty that lasted 24 years, from 1960 to 1984. They had a child, Zeena Schreck (née LaVey). At the end of their relationship Diane Hegarty sued for palimony. She appears in many of the filmed rituals of the Church. These have become stock footage for anyone desiring a depiction of Satanism. Along with her Satanic duties as hostess, model enchantress, mother and magician's wife, she helped Anton raise a lion cub named Togare.

Hegarty administered the Church and typed and edited The Satanic Bible, The Satanic Rituals, The Compleat Witch (aka The Satanic Witch) and The Devil’s Notebook. She did most of the Church's administrative, press and member relations work. Their daughter Zeena Schreck was in the media spotlight at age 3, at her Satanic baptism, and again defending the Church of Satan against allegations of Satanic ritual abuse as public representative and High Priestess of the Church of Satan between 1985 and 1990 during the 1980s Satanic panic, the politically-motivated Christian fundamentalist witch-hunts in America. Daughter Schreck resigned from the Church of Satan and renounced LaVeyan Satanism to pursue her own spiritual path in 1990 and ceased all contact with her family.

Later in life Hegarty dedicated herself to helping her grandson Stanton LaVey's career. Her death preceded the death of Stanton LaVey (d. December 19, 2022) by five months. Hegarty-Hall also worked as a graphology specialist.


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