The world has seen little of Patty Hearst, now known as Patricia Hearst-Shaw, a woman who was allegedly kidnapped by a terrorist group and forced to become a bank robber in one of the most bizarre episodes of the 1970s, but she appeared at the Westminster Kennel Club dog show held at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Monday.

Hearst-Shaw, 61, heir to a billion-dollar media company, resurfaced in the most unexpected place this week. She co-owns a Shih Tzu named Rocket who was chosen as the top toy dog at the Westminster Kennel Club dog show, reports USA Today.

She was unmoved by the press attention as she's always been since first making headlines in 1974.

"People move on," she told reporters. "I guess people somehow imagine you don't evolve in your life. I have grown daughters and granddaughters and other things that normal people have."

That may be true, but Hearst-Shaw has led a life that is anything but normal.

The millionaire heiress was allegedly kidnapped from the University of California at Berkeley where she was a 19-year-old college student in 1974 by a left-wing revolutionary group called the Symbionese Liberation Army. While with the group, she changed her name to "Tania" and was featured on the group's promotional poster holding a semiautomatic rifle.

In September 1975, Hearst-Shaw was arrested in San Francisco for helping the militants rob a California bank. The self-proclaimed "urban guerrilla" defended herself as a raped and brainwashed victim, but a jury convicted her of bank robbery and a weapons charge. She spent nearly two years in prison.

The remaining Symbionese Liberation Army members died in a fiery Los Angeles shootout in May 1974.

President Bill Clinton pardoned Shaw-Hearst in 2001. Once pardoned, she left prison a convict, married her bodyguard, Bernard Shaw, and became a suburban Connecticut mother-of-two.

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