Berry Duane Oakley

Berry Duane Oakley was born on March 30, 1973, to the late Berry Oakley (from The Allman Brothers Band) and Julia Negron. His father had died in a road accident on November 11, 1972, when his mother was in her six month pregnancy. That same year she had lost her mother to an overdose. As a single mother in her 20s, she turned to heroin to cope with the loss, and in 1976 married Chuck Negron, the singer for Three Dog Night. Oakley's godfather is The Doors guitarist Robby Krieger. Berry was raised with Julia and Chuck when both developed major heroin addictions. In 1977 his younger half-brother Chuckie Negron was born being already an addict because of his parents. He first met Devon Allman, Gregg Allman's son, and Duane Betts, Dickey Betts's son, as a teenager, during The Allman Brothers Band's 1989 Dreams tour. He helped babysit Duane and Elijah Allman when he was living in LA. He'd go to Cher's house and when she would run errands, and would babysit them. In 1991, he toured with h