[16] Although always a predominantly male organization, the Hells Angels had female members until 1964 when Barger imposed a rule making the group male only. "[25] President Johnson did not reply to the letter.[26]. [1], Ralph Hubert Barger, Jr. was born in Modesto, California, on October 8, 1938, the son of Kathryn Carmella (ne Ritch) and Ralph Hubert Barger. Sonny Barger, center, with other members of the Hells Angels at a news conference in Oakland, Calif., in 1965. [93] Under the terms that Chancey and Anastas struck, the status quo was preserved as the Hells Angels recognized Chicago as within the territory of the Outlaws in exchange for being allowed to keep their chapters in the Chicago suburbs. [3] After forming the Oakland chapter, Barger was instrumental in unifying various disparate Hells Angels chapters and had the club incorporated in 1966. [12][113][114] His death was announced in a Facebook post reading: If you are reading this message, you'll know that I'm gone. In 1983 Barger contracted throat cancer; his vocal cords were removed and he learned to speak through a vocaliser in his oesophagus. I'll usually say "Fuck Harley-Davidson." [44], Along with fellow Hells Angels members Sergey Walton, Donald Duane "Whitey" Smith, and "Oakland" Gary Popkin, Barger was charged with the May 21, 1972 murder of Servio Winston Agero a drug dealer from McAllen, Texas who had traveled to Oakland with a consignment of narcotics for sale which allegedly occurred following a dispute over an $80,000 cocaine deal. It was an event the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office warned could become dangerous.. "[6] Barger appealed his convictions, contending that the government's investigative conduct had deprived him of his Fifth Amendment right to due process, that he had been incited to commit crimes by Anthony Tait and the government, and that the district court erred when it sentenced him pursuant to the Sentencing Reform Act guidelines. [19] The Angels declared war on the Outlaws during a summit of various chapter presidents in Rochester, New York in November 1978. [5][12] Barger grew up in Oakland in the post-war era, during which time the city's shipbuilding and automobile industries went into decline, leading to a significant rise in unemployment. [66], Barger was released from prison in Arizona on November 6, 1992, after serving three-and-a-half years of a four-year sentence. [12] His diagnosis and treatment took place at Fort Miley VA Hospital in San Francisco. Barger passed away on Wednesday,. The 63-year-old is also a motorcycle lover, like her late husband. If there was a contract out on him, then he'd be dead. [92] Mel Chancey, the president of the Hells Angels Chicago chapter who served as their lead negotiator, met with Barger in the spring of 1998 to discuss the negotiating terms. [38], After Altamont, Barger sought to expand the Hells Angels and improve the club's image. I ended up not liking him at all, a tall skinny, typical hillbilly from Kentucky. Barger was attracting attention, and in 1966 Hunter S Thompsons first book, Hells Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs, appeared; though it was less gonzo than his later work, Bargers portrayal lent much to Thompsons own future image. "[6] Barger continually denied that he was the Hells Angels' leader or that Oakland was the club's headquarters, however, saying: "Theres no charter that's the boss. [87] Barger was later a member of the Yavapai County chapter. [3] [23] The RICO case against the Hells Angels was the most substantial effort in federal history against the club at the time, and charged the defendants with various crimes dating back to 1971, including manufacturing and distributing methamphetamine; conspiring to commit murder; assault; use of false identification; intimidation; and bribery. On June 30, 2022, Sonny's Facebook post announced his passing. They hated each other. He'll share with us what it was like to be there. He also attested that the FBI had asked him to fake his own death in order to further their investigation against the Hells Angels, to which he refused. This is not surprising. [62] Wearing their "colors", the bikers rode their motorcycles past the residence of assistant county prosecutor James Bates, visited the neighbors of jurors after obtaining a list of prospective jurors in the case, and circled the courthouse in black vans with "Hells Angels" painted on the side. [7] To celebrate the end of his parole, he held another private party in Livermore on November 6, 1994, which was attended by approximately 700 guests, including the politicians Gary Condit and Ben Nighthorse Campbell. [23] Prosecutors claimed that the Angels accumulated $160,000 per day in street sales of the drug. His prostate was removed and he was subsequently declared free of cancer.[112]. (Robert H Houston/Associated Press) Ralph "Sonny" Barger, the larger . [94] The agreement also applied to Canada with the Outlaws agreeing to provide no assistance to the Rock Machine in return for peace with the Hells Angels in the United States. Local law enforcement is warning about the possibility of violence at the Saturday funeral of Hells Angels founder Sonny Barger at the 99 Speedway in California. Barger withdrew from public leadership of the Angels and by 1998 was living in Arizona. The warning angered the Angels hierarchy, and Caronite was demoted from his position as a national officer. Son of a mother, Kathryn Carmella Barger, and father, Ralph Hubert Barger, Sonny Barger had a rough childhood. [42] Barger was, however, sentenced to ninety days in jail after walking out of a court session. In his autobiography, he divided the history of the Hells Angels into four eras, namely the First Era (1950s and 1960s) characterized by drug use and sex, the Second Era (1970s) characterized by organized crime, the Third Era (1980s) which he depicts as a period of persecution by the U.S. government, and the Fourth Era (1990s), which he characterized as a return to the original values of the club in the 1950s and 1960s. [7] He appears in the documentary film about the Altamont Free Concert: Gimme Shelter (1970). In December 1969 the Angels were hired by the Rolling Stones to provide security at the Altamont free festival. They got exactly what they wanted a dark scary atmosphere to play 'Sympathy for the Devil'Just because you sing well doesn't mean you can act like a bunch of assholes to your fans and that's what they did that night at Altamont". [19], According to George Wethern who later testified against the club and entered the Federal Witness Protection Program in his 1978 book A Wayward Angel, Barger convened a meeting of the leaders of the Hells Angels and other California motorcycle clubs in 1960 in which the various clubs parleyed over the mutual problem of police harassment. He had cancer. [7] According to Barger's chief attorney James Crew, Ivaldi himself was involved in the conspiracy to kill Agero and, knowing he was a prime suspect and fearing retaliation from the "Texas Mafia", he tried to shift the blame to the Hells Angels. [50] He and fifteen others were arrested during a series of raids carried out in the Bay Area by around 200 Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) agents. [93] The talks began on July 18, 1998 in the Copacabana strip club in the Illinois town of Alsip with Edward "Shock" Anastas, the president of the Outlaws Milwaukee chapter, serving as their lead negotiator. Various objects were thrown from the Cadillac during the pursuit, including four handguns, a shotgun, surgical gloves, and a belt with an ammunition pouch and a silver buckle engraved with the caption: "Sonny Barger Jr., 195767 president, Hells Angels Oakland. We feel that a crack group of trained guerillas could demoralize the Viet Cong and advance the cause of freedom. [77][78] The Angels' November 1994 "patch over" of the Hell's Henchmen biker gang in the Outlaws' home base of Chicago resulted in a number of shootings and bombings. When Marlon Brando, as the leader of the Black Rebels, is asked what he is rebelling against, he replies, Whaddaya got?. [16] Barger was not the founder of the Hells Angels as is often claimed the group was founded in 1948 but he became its best known member to such an extent that he is often misidentified as the club's founder. Welcome to Sonny's online store. Sonny Barger married a total of four times over the course of his life. The Appeals Court agreed with the government's position that its conduct was necessary due to the Hells Angels' violent history, and rejected Barger's argument that the government had committed entrapment because it deemed the conspiracy to have been originated by the Hells Angels themselves. Barger, Beyea and Popkin were arrested after the Cadillac was chased for four miles by converging police. Back in Oakland, living between his fathers and his older sisters family, and doing dock work, he met fellow veterans and in 1956 joined the Oakland Panthers motorcycle club. [7][65], Anthony "Taterhead" Tait, the sergeant-at-arms of the Hells Angels chapter in Anchorage, Alaska, volunteered to become a paid informant for the FBI in 1984, commencing a three-year nationwide Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) investigation known as Operation CACUS. "[34] Barger maintained that the Rolling Stones were ultimately responsible for the violent events that took place at the concert, saying: "They agitated the crowd, had the stage built too low, and then used us to keep the whole thing boiling. [47], On March 16, 1973, Barger was sentenced to a prison term of ten years-to-life after he was convicted of possession of narcotics for sale (37 grams of heroin), and possession of a weapon by a convicted felon. [4][7], The dispute between the Hells Angels and the Rolling Stones was compounded when the band refused to compensate the Angels for $50,000 in legal fees accrued by the club in the trial of Alan Passaro, who was acquitted of Hunter's murder on the grounds of self-defense. Sonny (Ralph Hubert) Barger, motorcycle club leader, born 8 October 1938; died 29 June 2022, Longtime Hells Angels president who cultivated his outlaw image and turned the motorcycle club into a global brand, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. [58] U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese stated that Barger's arrest had averted five murders. Oakland police sergeant Edward "Ted" Hilliard testified in 1972 that he accepted guns, dynamite, and grenades from Barger personally in return for deals on arrests during at least fifteen separate meetings, the most recent of which took place in the spring of 1971. [18] With Barger as president, the Oakland Hells Angels traveled around California and amalgamated with the other Hells Angels chapters, dividing territory and forming club bylaws. [108] Barger was sentenced to an eight-day jail term for aggravated assault. [62] He denied that jurors were intimidated by the Hells Angels' presence at the trial, saying: "The only ones that are intimidated are the ones the feds tell to be". We're all across the country, and now we're in foreign countries also. Last modified on Sun 18 Sep 2022 14.43 EDT As the longtime president of the Hells Angels motorcycle club, Sonny Barger, who has died aged 83, was the epitome of the outlaw biker. [67] He also covertly recorded club meetings by wearing a wire. With warfare between gangs intensifying, in 2002 he tried to organise a peace conference at the Laughlin River Run rally in Nevada, but a battle between Hells Angels and Mongols left three dead, and the conference was cancelled. [20] Barger justified the male only ruling under the grounds that female Hells Angels were less able to defend themselves against rival bikers looking to steal their patches. He marketed various Sonny Barger items, including his own salsa, and began writing books, including a biography, Hells Angel (2001), written with the twin brothers Keith and Kent Zimmerman. [23] The indictments followed two car bombings targeting law enforcement officers in northern California, which were blamed on the Hells Angels. [31] In the late 1960s, Barger began selling heroin and also developed an addiction to cocaine. He was born on October 8, 1938, in Modesto, California, the United States. He was 83. Sonny Barger, the leather-clad fixture of 1960s counterculture and figurehead of the Hells Angels motorcycle club who was at the notorious Rolling Stones concert at Altamont Speedway, has died. And I went to jail for it. [32] Barger married Gruhlke while he was incarcerated at Folsom State Prison in 1973. Barger also circulated a photograph of the two Outlaws who killed Webb, firstly at an Oakland chapter meeting on November 30, 1986, and again at a summit of West Coast chapter officers on January 3, 1987. "[27] Barger and the Hells Angels are also depicted in Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968), during Ken Kesey's La Honda encampment. Barger was represented by defense attorney Stephen Miller, and Barger's wife worked on the defense team as a paralegal. In 1969, he began a relationship with Sharon Gruhlke, a former beauty queen from Livermore. Barger reportedly celebrated his 50th birthday in the midst of the trial by partying and smoking marijuana at the home of Thomas Clay, Michael O'Farrell's lawyer, in Goshen, Kentucky. [111], Barger underwent surgery as a result of prostate cancer in 2012. [6] The defense team endeavored to expose the government's "outrageous" investigative conduct and discredit Tait, whom the government acknowledged was paid $300,000 in salary and expenses for the information he provided. Noel suffered a broken rib and back, and a lacerated spleen. The prosecutors asserted that the Hells Angels were a highly organized criminal organization ruled by a "code of silence" involved in drug trafficking, shootings and bombings. Cops claimed he was suspected of being involved in the murder of John Cleve Webb - the Anchorage Hells Angels president.. John Van de Kamp, who was the California Attorney General, at the time, said police seized more than 100 weapons and $1million in cash and drugs . In an emotional pre-written statement uploaded online by Barger's family, the motorcyclist announced his own death, which was met by a wide range of tributes. Jurgensen was also a longtime color commentary for Washington's radio broadcast crew. Hood and Jarman told police that the incident was merely an initiation hazing. Furthermore, the Appeals Court ruled that the district court did not act in error to sentence Barger under the federal guidelines. By now, Barger had given up his job as a machinist, and taken advantage of the publicity to work as a technical adviser in exploitation biker movies, beginning with Roger Cormans Wild Angels (1966), starring Peter Fonda and Nancy Sinatra. The club also hired public relations specialists and began participating in charity fund drives. Barger claimed to have been sitting on stage drinking beer when the violence was taking place. In 1979 Barger was one of 33 people charged with racketeering under federal Rico (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) laws. "[72], On March 10, 1989, Barger was sentenced to 57 months' imprisonment at the Federal Correctional Institution, Phoenix in Arizona. [117] Fox News host Tucker Carlson spoke at the funeral. Fourteen months later he was discharged honourably, as he had lied about his age to join without parental permission. Also, you will learn more exciting things about Sonny Barger in the given sections. [63] A female juror was excused from duty after her son was threatened by a group of Hells Angels at a downtown Toledo bar that he would have "lots of problems" if his mother did not "vote the right way". [9] Barger refuted accusations from law enforcement characterizing the Hells Angels as an organized crime syndicate, and maintained that the club should not be held accountable for the actions of individual members. [7] Although the basic organization was in place when Barger took over leadership of the club, he introduced additional rules pertaining to new members, club officers, and the establishment of new chapters. An indifferent student, Barger quit school at 16 and joined the army. That went nowhere, but the day before the march, Barger announced the Angels would stay away out of patriotic concerns that anti-American marchers might provoke violent acts by us and only produce sympathy for this mob of traitors. Barger's death was announced on his Facebook page late Wednesday. Barger's former attorney, Fritz Clapp, told The Associated Press that Barger had liver cancer and died Wednesday night at home in . Sonny Barger, the leather-clad fixture of 1960s counterculture and figurehead of the Hells Angels motorcycle club who was at the notorious Rolling Stones concert at Altamont Speedway, has died.. Barger had liked the discipline, masculine camaraderie, and learning how to disassemble weapons. [48] Barger gave a series of interviews, including one with Geraldo Rivera for his Good Night America television program, in which he portrayed himself as a model prisoner and said: "They got to let me out sometime. Leonard "Cool Ray" Mullen, the Outlaws member convicted of killing Webb, testified that he shot Webb over a personal feud and that there was no war between the Outlaws and the Angels. As he was a former felon, both were illegal. Though the outcome of most cases was mistrial, he and Sharon were the only two acquitted outright. [24] He went on to read out a telegram sent to President Lyndon B. Johnson, reading: "I volunteer a group of loyal Americans for behind the line duty in Vietnam. Sonny Barger tied knots with Zorana Berger in the year 2005 who they have been together for a long time since they came together. The Hells Angels Motorcycle Club is Sonny Barger's life. He asserted that violence only started once the crowd began vandalizing the Angels' motorcycles. Though, he is 1.60 m tall, he weighs about 62 kg. [70] Under a special arrangement approved by U.S. District Judge Edward H. Johnstone, defense attorneys subpoenaed each of the codefendants as witnesses, entitling them to per diem witness fees. Talks of his retirement are premature. It was paid for by the FBI. [66] During one such meeting, Barger admiringly told Tait that he represented the "Hells Angel of the '90s" clean-cut, articulate, and capable of carrying out club business. [105], Barger's first wife Elsie Mae (ne George) died on February 1, 1967, from an embolism in her bloodstream after undergoing an illegal abortion. Sonny Barger was an American author, actor and biker who had a net worth of $500 thousand at the time of his death in June 2022. [55], By 1978, the Hells Angels had chapters in Nebraska, Massachusetts, Ohio, New York, Connecticut, North Carolina and South Carolina. [46] John Joseph Devaney, Long's former husband, was found dead in a car in Hayward on June 14 in an apparent suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning. Divorced amicably from Sharon, he married Beth Noel (nee Black). [69] Barger was among thirteen people taken into custody in the Bay Area, where over 400 FBI, ATF, and California State Police personnel carried out 26 raids on homes and other properties, seizing more than 100 weapons, approximately $1 million in cash and drugs, and three methamphetamine laboratories. sonny barger mort sonny barger mort P.O. Though law enforcement saw the Angels as more of a gang than a club, in the 1960s the media latched on to Barger (pronounced Bar-gurr), selling the outlaw image to the world as a form of countercultural protest that took celluloid form in films such as Easy Rider (1969). Please know that I passed peacefully after a brief battle with cancer. [16] When Otto Friedli, the founder of the original San Bernardino Hells Angels chapter, was imprisoned in 1958, Barger was proclaimed de facto national president. Consequently, due to his vocal cords being removed, Barger learned to vocalize using the muscles in his esophagus. [39] In March 1983, Clarence "Butch" Crouch, a founding member of the Hells Angels' Cleveland chapter, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee that the club had an "open contract" on members of the Rolling Stones and had made two failed attempts on the life of Mick Jagger. Tait called Barger on November 9, 1987, and reported that he had accomplished his mission. He grew up along with his alcoholic father and elder sister. [48] In April 1977, Barger won an appeal to face a retrial on a prior marijuana possession conviction. Keep your head up high, stay loyal, remain free, and always value honor. [96] He subsequently wrote several biker-related novels. Sonny Barger (1 - 40 of 48 results) Price ($) Shipping Autographed Sonny Barger Hells Angels founder 8x10 inch framed photo with JSA COA Rare! [6] He took up running for exercise in prison, saying: "I'm slow but I can go on forever". The supposed peace meeting, scheduled to be held in an eastern state, was in fact an opportunity for the Hells Angels to assassinate their rivals' leadership, according to investigators. One of our subscribers went to Sonny Barger's funeral. Wish you were here. I think it was a devastating blow to the government, and I couldnt be happier with the verdict except if I had been found innocent myself. [60] Cleveland Hells Angel-turned-government witness Clarence Crouch testified for the prosecution that Gentry had murdered Tanner as part of an initiation process into the Hells Angels. He was among the motorcycle club's most visible members for decades. [6] Following a three-month-trial, the longest ever in the history of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky, Barger and O'Farrell were convicted on October 28, 1988, on the felony charge of conspiracy to transport and receive explosives in interstate commerce with intent to kill and damage buildings. They affiliated with the Angels mother chapter in San Bernadino; the clubs unified primarily by their battles with the Jokers. [15] Founding their own Hells Angels club on April 1, 1957, each member wore the patch a small skull wearing an aviator cap set within a set of wings, later copyrighted as the Hells Angels' "Death's Head" logo after having replicas made at a trophy store in Hayward. [97] In later years, Barger worked to promote motorcycle safety: he co-authored a book on the subject with Darwin Holmstrom (the author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Motorcycles (1998)[98]) titled Let's Ride: Sonny Barger's Guide to Motorcycling (2010). The term refers to a comment allegedly made by the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) that 99% of motorcyclists were law-abiding citizens, implying the last one percent were outlaws. [74][75] Colorado state senator Nighthorse Campbell had allegedly tried to use his influence to have Barger released from prison earlier. [22] Amidst claims by the Hells Angels' attorneys, Jack Berman and Herman Mintz, of insufficient evidence and an illegal search by arresting officers, all five defendants pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of unlawful imprisonment. It was. The postwar image of motorcycle gangs was established by the 1953 movie The Wild One. His criminal record began in 1963 after he was arrested for possession of marijuana. [35] He blamed the Rolling Stones' extended delay before making an onstage appearance for worsening the hostility of the crowd, and said the Hells Angels refused to act as bodyguards for "a bunch of sissy, marble-mouthed prima donnas" when the band asked the bikers to escort them to the stage. The blacks and Latinos didn't like us. Please allow up to2-7 days for fullment on your order, and please note the days for shipping are . With the Zimmermans, he also wrote a memoir of biker tales and two novels about a biker named Patch Kinkade, one of which, Dead in 5 Heartbeats, was made into a film in 2013 that he produced along with his fourth wife, Zorana (nee Katzakian); they both played bit parts in it. [24] Ginsberg invited Barger and the Oakland Hells Angels to a party where he provided the bikers with free alcohol, drugs and sex in exchange for their guarantee that the rally would not be attacked. [85] The meetings ended with the American leaders imposing a truce on their Scandinavian chapters as neither the Bandidos nor the Hells Angels wanted to see a biker ban. The biker, of California, passed away peacefully surrounded by his wife Zorana and relatives on June 29. Earlier this month, Sonny announced the release of his friend's new children's book. "[7] In the late 1970s, Barger and other senior Hells Angels ordered James "Buddy" Caronite, the president of the club's East Coast faction, to organize a peace conference with Outlaws leaders. The founder of the Hells Angels, Sonny Barger, has died at 83, according to a social media statement and his former attorney. Show creator Kurt Sutter spent time with Barger and other members of Hells Angels researching for the show, and acted opposite Barger in his scene. First of all we're a virtual army. At the time that long-time Hells Angels member Sonny Barger died, his net worth was $500,000, as Celebrity Net Worth explains. The Hells Angels were incorporated as a nonprofit corporation in 1966. [66], Barger sent a stolen copy of a government document prepared by the El Paso Intelligence Center (EPIC), which contained the identities and personal data of Outlaws members and associates, via express mail to Webb's sister in Louisville, Kentucky, who then turned it over to Hells Angels members. Christie believed Bowman was persuaded to abandon a truce with the Hells Angels by one of his lieutenants, Kevin "Spike" O'Neill, who thought agreeing to a ceasefire would make the Outlaws appear weak. Barger returned on November 29, 2011, in the season 4 finale, part one. I'm sure some of our members own guns, whether legal or not. Barger left Arizona in October 2016, returning to the Oakland chapter. [7] Authorities accused the Angels of dominating the production of the drug in the U.S.[58] Barger addressed such allegations by saying: "I'm sure there are some individual Angels who've sold methamphetamines. Join us as we discuss.Get my new Audio Book Prospect. The clubs voted to ally under a "1%er" patch to be worn on their respective "colors". Browse the catalog of Sonny Barger Books, Prints and Dvd's. Choose and add products to your shopping cart, then follow the simple steps to complete your purchase immediately by credit or debit card, or PayPal. He was arrested again on the same charge the following year, and for assault with a deadly weapon in 1965 and 1966. According to Christie, he and Bowman were working towards a peace treaty when the Outlaws leader withdrew from the negotiations. By now he was being arrested regularly, for marijuana possession or assault with a deadly weapon. Owen. [21] The author and journalist Hunter S. 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