The man who successfully prosecuted cult leader Charles Manson died earlier this month leaving behind two children-or so that's what people thought.
Vincent Bugliosi left behind his wife of 59 years, Gail and their two adult children, Vincent and Wendy.
And on Tuesday a woman claiming to be Vincent Bugliosi's lover of 23 years, Linda Alvarez, has stepped out of the woodwork to say the two of them had a secret child together named Nina.
Bugliosi who wrote the book 'Helter Skelter,' also apparently has five grandchildren that until now were kept hush hush, reports The New York Post.
'I am looking for a PR agency to represent me in selling a story to a newspaper or magazine about the unknown personal life story of Vince Bugliosi,' Alvarez wrote in an email to several PR firms.
Alvarez says she wants to write memoir called, 'My Helter Skelter Life with Vince Bugliosi,' but said she wanted to wait until after he died to go public with her story.
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Vincent Bugliosi, who prosecuted Charles Manson and his followers, died on June 6 after a battle with cancer. Following his death, a woman named Linda Alvarez has come out of the woodwork to reveal a big secret
Wife: Vincent Bugliosi left behind his wife of 59 years, Gail (pictured) and their two adult children, Vincent and Wendy. On Tuesday it was learned that Bugiosi may have had a secret love child named Nina with a lover of 23 years named Linda Alvarez
'I was Vince’s lover from July 1978 to Sept 2001. We lived together at times & we had a child on his birthday August 18, 1981,' Alvarez, 60, wrote.
Alvarez says keeping her daughter a secret was extremely difficult. She would often read about Bugliosi's two other children and it pained her that her daughter was less a part of his family.
'I kept reading about how he had two children, and it was painful that Nina was being ignored,' Alvarez told The New York Post.
Bugliosi helped Nina financially over the years but not nearly as much as his other children.
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Share'It’s time for her to be acknowledged.' Alvarez said, adding that she and her daughter have no plans to sue Bugliosi's estate.
Bugliosi met Alvarez when she was working as a cocktail waitress at the Marriot Hotel in Tucson, Arizona.
Alvarez says they had a tempestuous relationship and that Bugliosi told her he would marry her though he never did.
'There were some good times, but plenty that were horrible,' Alvarez said. Like all married men, he vowed to get a divorce, Alvarez said. 'He promised he would marry me.'
Ambitious: Bugliosi, who became the chief prosecutor in the case after a more experience attorney was dismissed, is pictured talking with reporters after Manson and his followers were convicted in 1971
Bugliosi away at the age of 80 at a Los Angeles hospital on June 6 after a years-long battle with cancer, his son Vincent Bugliosi Jr. said.
The Minnesota native famously won convictions of Manson and three of his cult followers for the horrific 1969 murders of Valley of the Dolls actress Sharon Tate and six others.
On August 8 that year, on Manson's orders, his followers drove to the Hollywood Hills estate Tate shared with her husband, director Roman Polanksi, who was away at the time.
Tate, who was just two weeks from giving birth to their first child, and four others visiting the home were shot or stabbed to death by the killers. Tate, 26, was also hanged.
The housekeeper found their butchered bodies and bloody scrawlings on the door of the home the next day.
That evening, another couple, Rosemary and Leno LaBianca, who owned a grocery chain, were also found killed in a similarly brutal scene in their home in a nearby upscale neighborhood.
That crime scene was marked with the same bloody scrawlings of words including, 'Pigs' and 'Rise' and 'Helter Skelter'. The victims had no connection to Tate or her glamorous friends.
Investigators scoured for clues but the break in the case came when one of the killers, Susan Atkins, told a cellmate that she was behind the murders while in prison on theft charges.
Locked up: During the case, Bugliosi detailed the bizarre lifestyles of the cult members, led by Charles Manson, pictured heading to his arraignment in 1969. Manson remains behind bars for the murders
Bugliosi, who worked with the Los Angeles County district office, worked to build the case against Manson, Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten.
A more senior attorney, Aaron Stovit, was assigned to lead the case but he removed by the DA's office for a comment he made to the media - and an ambitious Bugiosi, then 35, stepped into the role.
The attorney turned the trial into a marathon showcase for the killers' bizarre lifestyles.
These murders were the most bizarre in the annals of American crime. Evil has its lure and Manson has become a metaphor for evil Vincent BugliosiHe first proposed the theory that Manson was inspired to violence by the Beatles song 'Helter Skelter,' which the cult leader thought predicted a race war that he and his followers would start.
The trial became an exploration of the cult and its drug and sex fueled adoration of Manson whom members venerated as Jesus.
At the time, the 10-month, $1 million criminal trial was the longest and most expensive in Los Angeles history.
In 1971, the defendants - as well as Charles Watson, who was tried separately - were found guilt of first-degree murder.
Bugliosi also won death sentences for the five murderers but these were reduced to life in prison after the death penalty was abolished in California the following year.
Shocking: The cult members murdered actress Sharon Tate and four of her friends at her Hollywood Hills home, pictured, in 1969. They then murdered another wealthy couple in a nearby neighborhood
Senseless: 26-year-old Tate, pictured left with her husband director Roman Polanski and right, was almost full-term with the couple's child when she was murdered inside their home
'The execution of a condemned man is a terrible thing, but murder is an even more terrible thing,' Bugliosi told the Los Angeles Times in 2009.
'They deserved to die, these people, and I asked for the death penalty and I would do so again...I'm disappointed, of course, particularly with respect to Manson.'
Bugliosi wrote a dozen books including this 1974 book, 'Helter Skelter', about the Manson trial
Stephen R. Kay, a former Los Angeles County deputy district attorney who worked with Bugliosi on the Manson trial, recounted the attorney's commitment to the case as he spoke with the LA Times.
'I don't think I've ever known anybody to be as hard a worker as Vince,' he said. 'He would go home after the trial every day, take a nap for an hour, get up and work until 3 or 4 a.m., sleep for a couple more hours and go back to work. And he always appeared fresh, never tired.'
Manson, now 80, remains behind bars at Corcoran State Prison.
During his time at the DA's Office, Bugliosi secured convictions in 105 of 106 felony jury trials, including 21 murder cases.
After the Manson case, he ran twice for Los Angeles County district attorney but lost and later became a defense attorney, although he worked on relatively few cases.
His biggest success after the case came in writing a dozen true-crime and non-fiction books.
Among his books was 'Helter Skelter', which he co-wrote about the Manson murders and the trial. It was released in 1974 and became one of the best-selling true crime books of all time.
In 1996, he also published 'Outrage: The Five Reasons Why O.J. Simpson Got Away with Murder', which slammed the prosecutors and judge of their handling of the case.
In another book in 2008, he argued that that George W. Bush should be tried for murder for U.S. military deaths in Iraq, while in another in 2011, he looked at evidence for the existence of God.
Success: Bugliosi, pictured in Pasadena, California in 2009, remained with the DA's office for a few years after the high-profile case before working as a defense lawyer and a best-selling writer
Bugliosi Jr. said his father was most proud of his nearly 2,000-page examination of the Kennedy Assassination, 'Reclaiming History,' which took over 20 years to write and came out in 2007.
He had 'an unflagging dedication to justice' in everything he did, his son said.
Bugliosi was born in Hibbin, Minnesota in 1934. His father ran a grocery store before working as a railroad conductor, and the family later moved to Los Angeles while Bugliosi was in high school.
Bugliosi, a state champion tennis player, went to the University of Miami on a tennis scholarship and later received his law degree from UCLA.
Despite his literary success, Bugliosi remained most associated with the Manson case for the rest of his life. Reflecting on it 40 years later, he said, 'These murders were probably the most bizarre in the recorded annals of American crime... Evil has its lure and Manson has become a metaphor for evil.'
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