- Despite being the heir to the Folgers coffee fortune and having a steady income from inheritance, she was known to live a less than splendorous lifestyle, by choice. She was very devoted to child welfare and the civil rights movement, which she worked tirelessly for and donated her own money to.
- Was a close friend of Sharon Tate and was staying the weekend at Sharon's home in Bel Air, along with her boyfriend Voytek Frykowski and Sharon's ex-fiancé, Jay Sebring, when they were tortured and murdered by the Manson family. Folger briefly escaped the house, but was caught and stabbed to death by Patricia Krenwinkel.
- She was a volunteer social worker in impoverished sections of Los Angeles.
- Graduated from Radcliffe College with honors in 1964. Went on to attend Harvard, where she graduated in 1967 with a Master's degree in Art History.
- She has a brother, Peter Folger, born in 1945, and a sister Elizabeth Folger, born in 1961, both of San Francisco.
- Was the heiress to the Folger Coffee fortune.
- Was dating Voytek Frykowski at the time of her death.
- Is portrayed by Elizabeth Ann Bennett in Helter Skelter (2004)
- Her parents were Peter Folger and Ines Mejia Folger, who divorced in 1952. Peter Folger remarried in 1960.
- Was roommates with Sharon Gless for one semester when both girls boarded at the elite Santa Catalina School in Monterey, California.
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