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'People move on': Gun-toting heiress Patty Hearst speaks out about her new 'normal life' as she wins with her toy dog at the Westminster Kennel Club show, Infamous heiress Patty Hearst is back in the news after a dog she co-owns won its group at the Westminster Kennel Club show.

A shih tzu called Rocket was picked as the top toy dog at Madison Square Garden on Monday. Hearst is the granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst and gained great notoriety in 1974 when she was kidnapped by the radical group the Symbionese Liberation Army.

She was seen holding a machine gun while robbing a California bank, and later spent almost two years in prison.
During her trial, Ms Hearst's lawyers argued that she had been brainwashed by the kidnappers, which has led to her being regarded as a victim of Stockholm Syndrome.

Her sentence was commuted by President Jimmy Carter. President Bill Clinton gave her a full pardon.'People move on,' she said, smiling at Rocket. 'I guess people somehow imagine you don't evolve in your life. I have grown daughters and grand-daughters and other things that normal people have.'

She also has appeared in films including Cry-Baby and Serial Mom. She's done television roles and charitable work.
Hearst has been involved in the dog show world for more than 10 years. She said many are surprised to find out she's moved on to play with pooches.

Hearst, who turns 61 on Friday, is one of Rocket's three co-owners. She's mostly worked with French bulldogs and one of them won an award ribbon earlier in the day.

Hearst's dog will be one of seven in the championship ring on Tuesday night when best in show is chosen. That will cause her to do some shifting — she didn't originally have tickets for the finals.

Even though Hearst loves dogs, her two daughters own cats.
'I don't know what I did wrong,' she said.

Hearst's feather William Randolph Hearst was a newspaper magnate who was widely considered to have been the inspiration for the megalomaniac central character in Citizen Kane.

Her extraordinary tale has spawned countless books and movies, including the 1988 film Patty Hearst, based on her autobiography and starring Natasha Richardson.

Following her release from prison, Patty married her bodyguard, Bernard Shaw. He died aged 68 in 2013.
The couple had two daughters, Gillian and Lydia, a model and actress who has appeared on the cover of glossy magazines such as Vogue.