There are Manson case fanatics who have tracked her and everyone else involved down and go over every detail in their forums.
CA has fairly open public records.
Matt Drudge has gone the slightly-less-bat-crap-crazy-version-of Howard Hughes route.
There’s even some interesting articles out there about trying to track him down, and just general senses of where he lives.
John Lennon faked his death to escape fame really convincingly. So did Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix, Sam Cooke, Freddy Mercury . . .
(I can dream, can’t I?)
My recollection is that, at the time, there was speculation that he might be dead. No one knew where he was. It’s been more than a decade so my recollection might be wrong.
Yes, he disappeared because there were warrants out for him. If we eliminate those who have a good reason to disappear, it will severely limit the scope of this conversation 
I don’t think anyone’s seen Elvis since that time he was spotted working at a convenience store in Kalamazoo, MI back in the 80’s.
I believe that it was pretty widely known that he was openly living in California. The charges weren’t important enough for the state to extradite from that far.
Actress Greta Garbo pretty much vanished into private life in 1941 at age 35. No husband, no kids, little contact with the outside world.
But everyone knew where she lived- on 52nd Street in Manhattan.
True, she dropped out of show biz and never returned, but she wasn’t living in the middle of nowhere. She walked around the streets of New York, alone and/or with friends. She had a social life. It just didn’t include any other celebrities.
Nobody ever had to ask “Where is she?” Everyone knew exactly where she was. But hardly anyone from the press or from her old life ever tried to contact her, and that’s the way she wanted it.
Bobby Driscoll, a child actor who starred in early Disney movies like “Song of the South” and “So Dear to My Heart” and provided the voice for the animated Peter Pan, disappeared some time in 1967. In March 1968 his body was found in New York, but no one knew who he was until a fingerprint match identified the body over a year and a half later. This wasn’t released to the public till a few years after that, so for all that time he effectively “vanished.”
There were a lot of holes in that story, that’s for sure. It was still a good movie.
As she was gay or at least a fem-leaning bi, the latter isn’t too surprising. But as astorian notes, she didn’t hide out - she just didn’t hang at Elaine’s. She went back to being a private citizen.
Jimi most certainly did not fake his death. We sat upon his grave, passed a joint around and decorously left the roach for him. He was definitely down there.
The one you are thinking of is Jim Morrison. He faked his death and fled to a quiet, peaceful existence on a small farm in SW Ireland, just out of view of Craggy Island. Eno mentioned having a brief visit after doing that Father Ted episode.
One picture did come out a few years ago, but yeah, he’s very private.
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I think the main issue was that folks in S. Africa did not know his full name, where he was from, or pretty much who he was. The internet fixed that problem.
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He did do a few tours that the movie ignored. He didn’t totally disappear.
He lives not far from me, by the way. Neat.
Are you referencing Bobby Fisher? 'Cause that dude has shut up permanently. He dead.
Wow…he looks like an old Stephen Colbert.
This makes me think of actor Joe Pilcher, who was in a couple of Beethoven movies. He disappeared after playing cards with friends in 2006. His car was found, but he has never been heard from since.
Look Smithers, Garbo is coming!
Quirky girl Michelle Meyrink had vanished for some 15 years when someone tracked her down. I have no idea if she’s still in the same location a dozen years later.
Give him a pipe and he could pass for MAD cartoonist Dave Berg.
Not sure if Playboy Playmates of The Month qualify as celebrities, but quite a few have gone missing after their pictorial.
But one in particular stands out: Melinda Windsor, May Playmate, February 1966. She used a pseudonym and promptly disappeared. Very little is known about her before, during or after.
Mozart, of course. No one’s seen him in centuries, and no one knows where he went.
Quite a few men’s-mag nudies posed under pseudonyms, and not a few never had any idea their photo shoot ended up in such a magazine… at least, not in the lesser titles. While Playboy tends to shoot its own pictorials, especially centerfolds, they have bought just as many outright (see: Marilyn Monroe) and made up entirely fictitious names and histories for the subjects. All legal; the models signed away all rights.
So I don’t find it too unusual that even a Playboy POTM did a vanishing act. Probably more than that one, if the full record was examined.