# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/anton-lavey
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:36:54.731Z

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name: "Anton LaVey"
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description: "He founded the Church of Satan in 1966, wrote The Satanic Bible, and spent three decades as American culture's self-appointed Black Pope — a showman who turned devil worship into theater and individualist philosophy into brand."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born Howard Stanton Levey on April 11, 1930, he adopted the name Anton Szandor LaVey and built a public life around provocation. He established the Church of Satan and codified LaVeyan Satanism — a secular, atheistic creed wrapped in occult pageantry. His books, including The Satanic Bible, The Satanic Witch, and The Satanic Rituals, laid out a philosophy of self-interest and ritual as psychodrama. He released three albums, played a minor role in the 1975 film The Devil's Rain, and narrated Nick Bougas' 1989 mondo film Death Scenes. Scholars called him "the most iconic figure in the Satanic milieu," a man of "considerable personal magnetism." He died October 29, 1997, having spent his life as both the most reviled and most quotable Satanist in America.