Ben Kissel
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Last Podcast On The Left · Episode 669: Anton LaVey Part IV - Old Wizards Die Hard · 19 Jun 2026
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And so, by 1990, all of the people who'd been with Anton LaVey in the Church of Satan's heyday, they were gone.
Diane had left six years earlier.
Michael Aquino had left 15 years earlier.
And after Xena's dust-up with her father, she'd left Levain Satanism for who else but Michael Aquino's Temple of Set.
Immediately became a high priestess in the Templar set.
Wow.
Became one of the people that ran it.
Big fuck you to death.
Now, the lawsuits over the ownership of the Church of Satan and all its properties, they lasted throughout the 80s.
It was between Anton LaVey and Diane Higarty.
But when LaVey was summoned to court over a restraining order filed by Diane Higarty in 1984, LaVey claimed to have taken revenge on the world using magic.
He said that he wrote a letter announcing his magical intention for all hell to break loose when he got the summons.
And sure enough, at the very hour that LaVey was supposed to be in front of the judge in San Francisco, tragedy struck nine hours south in the California town of San Ysidro.
This was the day of the infamous McDonald's massacre, which was one of America's first major mass shootings.
Yeah.
And we're going to do a full series on this.
It's a fucking fascinating story.
But a man named James Huberti opened fire on a McDonald's with a machine gun, killing 22 and wounding 19 more.
LeVay, however, believed that the similarity between Diane's last name, Higarty, and the shooter's, Huberti, that wasn't a coincidence.
So he took credit for causing the massacre with his magic spells.
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