Karla LaVey

Daughter of Anton LaVey

Karla LaVey

Karla LaVey (age 60) at the 2012 Black X Mass show.

Born|

Karla Maritza LaVey

(1952-07-31) July 31, 1952 (age 71)

San Francisco, California, U.S.

Occupation(s)| Radio presenter, music impresario, religious leader, and founder of First Satanic Church
Years active| 1972–present
Parent(s)| Anton LaVey
Carole Lansing
Relatives| Zeena Schreck (half-sister)

Karla Maritza LaVey (born July 31, 1952) is the daughter and eldest child of Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey. She is an American radio host, former high priestess of her father's organization and founder and administrator of the First Satanic Church in San Francisco, California.[1]

Karla has been featured on television, on radio, and in news and magazine articles, including Fox News.[2] She has lectured on the subject of Satanism around the world. She can be seen in the films Satanis: The Devil's Mass (1970), Witchcraft 70 (1970), and Speak of the Devil (1993).[citation needed]

## Biography[edit]

Karla was born to Carole Lansing and Anton LaVey in San Francisco. She has two half siblings, Zeena Schreck and Satan Xerxes Carnacki LaVey.[3] She founded the First Satanic Church headquartered in San Francisco in 1999.[4] She was a founding member of her father's Church of Satan and acted as a public representative for both the church and her father for the better part of four decades.

In 1979, Karla was dispatched to Amsterdam to oversee the International Church of Satan headquarters[5] which acted as a liaison to its members overseas.

On October 29, 1997, Anton LaVey died of pulmonary edema. Being the next of kin to Anton LaVey, Karla held a press conference on November 7, 1997, to announce her father's death. It was at this time that Blanche Barton and Karla LaVey announced that they would run the Church of Satan jointly as co-high priestesses.[6]

Several days after Anton LaVey's death, Barton produced a hand written will claiming that LaVey had left all of his belongings, property, writings, and royalties, including the Church of Satan, to Barton's toddler son who had been fathered by LaVey. The entire LaVey estate, Barton claimed, was to be put in a trust for the son, managed by Barton. Karla contested this will, and the San Francisco probate court subsequently decreed the will to be invalid.[7]

A few years later, on October 31, 2001, a court settlement was reached in which Anton's belongings, intellectual property, and royalties would be split equally among his three children: Karla; Zeena; and LaVey's son by Barton (Satan Xerxes Carnacki LaVey, also known as Ethan Clarke).[7] The settlement also stipulated that Barton would receive the "corporation known as Church of Satan".[8]

## See also[edit]

* Anton LaVey
* First Satanic Church

## References[edit]

1. ^ Melton, J. Gordon; Baumann, Martin, eds. (2010). "Indonesia". Religions of the world: a comprehensive encyclopedia of beliefs and practices. Vol. 4 (2nd ed.). Santa Barbara; Denver; Oxford: ABC-CLIO. p. 701\. ISBN 978-1-59884-203-6.
2. ^ Nolasco, Stephanie (2018-06-20). "Mariska Hargitay recalls life lessons she learned from her father after family tragedy". FoxNews.
3. ^ Crabtree, Vexen (2002). "The Church Of Satan".
4. ^ LaVey, Karla. "First Satanic Church - Official Website". satanicchurch.com. Archived from the original on 2020-11-11. Retrieved 2020-06-26.
5. ^ "Satan Wants you" by Arthur Lyons – Mysterious Press (June 1988) ISBN 0-89296-217-8
6. ^ Sward, Susan (1997-11-08). "Satanist's Daughter To Keep the 'Faith'". sfgate.com. SFGate.
7. ^ a b Ethan, Clarke. "Ethan Clarke & Carl Abrahamsson presenting at Brunnenburg Castle". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21.
8. ^ Lattin, Don (1999-01-25). "Satan's Den in Great Disrepair / Relatives of S.F. hellhound Anton LaVey battle over 'Black House'". sfgate.com. SFGate.

## External links[edit]

* Official First Satanic Church Website
* Official First Satanic Church MySpace

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High Priest|

* Anton LaVey (1966–1997)
* Peter H. Gilmore (2001–present)

High Priestess|

* Diane Hegarty (1966–1985)
* Zeena LaVey (1985–1990)
* Karla LaVey (1990–1999)
* Blanche Barton (1997–2002)
* Peggy Nadramia (2002–present)

Organizations|

* Church of Satan
* First Satanic Church
* (see also The Black House, Grotto, Council of Nine)

Influential figures|

* Friedrich Nietzsche
* Ayn Rand
* Herbert Spencer
* Arthur Desmond
* Charles Darwin
* Sigmund Freud
* Niccolò Machiavelli
* Carl Jung
* Wilhelm Reich
* P.T. Barnum
* William Mortensen
* Aleister Crowley
* Maria de Naglowska
* Stanisław Przybyszewski
* Helena Blavatsky
* Grigori Rasputin
* Benjamin Franklin
* H. P. Lovecraft
* Edward Bernays
* H. L. Mencken
* Jack London
* Ambrose Bierce
* Benjamin De Casseres
* Arthur Schopenhauer
* Max Stirner
* Bernardino Nogara
* Basil Zaharoff
* Mark Twain
* John Milton

Literature|

* The Satanic Bible
* The Satanic Witch
* The Satanic Rituals
* The Secret Life of a Satanist
* We Are Satanists
* The Devil's Notebook
* Satan Speaks!
* Letters from the Devil
* The Satanic Scriptures

| Other media|

* The Satanic Mass
* Satanis: The Devil's Mass
* Speak of the Devil: The Canon of Anton LaVey
* The Black Flame
* Satan Takes a Holiday
* Strange Music
* Death Scenes

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Satanic holidays|

* Birthday
* Equinoxes
* Walpurgisnacht
* Solstices
* Halloween
* Yule

Ideas and concepts|

* Amorality
* Animalism
* Antihumanism
* Balance of nature
* Blasphemy
* Burlesque
* Carnality
* Carnivalesque
* Carpe diem, carpe noctem
* Elitism
* Epicureanism
* Egoism
* Egotheism
* Eugenics
* Grotesque body
* Hierarchy
* Individualism
* Iconoclasm
* Jungian psychology
* Law of the jungle
* Lex talionis
* Materialism
* Meritocracy
* Misanthropy
* Naturalism
* Pragmatism
* Psychic vampire
* Realism
* Self-preservation
* Social Darwinism
* Social stratification
* Universal Darwinism

Related topics|

* An Interview with Peter H. Gilmore
* Satanic panic
* Hellfire Club
* The All-Joking, All-Drunken Synod of Fools and Jesters

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