William Randolph Hearst II

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 his cousin Patty Hearst 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]