Post by Admin on Jan 30, 2016 17:23:19 GMT -4
In the 1980s, David Bowie and Iggy Pop vacationed in Bali. The place made an impression on Mr. Bowie: He directed that his body be cremated and his ashes scattered there, according to his will.
The 20-page will, prepared in 2004, was filed in Surrogate’s Court in Manhattan on Friday. It said Mr. Bowie’s estate was worth as much as $100 million, but it contained no breakdown of his holdings.
Nor was there any mention of “David Bowie” in the will. Mr. Bowie, who was 69 when he died on Jan. 10, was born David Robert Jones and never changed his name legally, so the document was titled “Last Will and Testament of David R. Jones.” It was drawn up by Herbert E. Nass, a Manhattan lawyer and the author of “Wills of the Rich and Famous: A Fascinating Glimpse at the Legacies of Celebrities.”
Mr. Bowie left his SoHo apartment — two penthouses that he bought for $4 million in 1999 and combined — to his widow, Iman Abdulmajid Jones.
Mr. Bowie left $2 million to Corinne Schwab, who is known as Coco and was his longtime personal assistant. In a codicil from 2007, he left Ms. Schwab his stock in a company called Opossum Inc. He left $1 million to Marion Skene, who was Mr. Jones’s nanny.
The will named two executors, Mr. Bowie’s business manager, William Zysblat, and a lawyer in London, Paddy Grafton Green. But documents filed with the will indicated that Mr. Green had stepped aside, leaving Mr. Zysblat as the sole executor.
Mr. Bowie was so taken with Bali that he had an Indonesian-style refuge built on Mustique, in the Caribbean. “I wanted something as unlike the Caribbean as possible, because it’s a fantasy island, Mustique,” he told Architectural Digest in 1992. He sold the house several years ago.
Mr. Bowie said in the will that he wanted his body shipped to Bali and cremated there “in accordance with the Buddhist rituals of Bali.” But he added that if cremation in Bali were not possible, he wanted his ashes scattered there nevertheless. His death certificate, filled with the will, said his body was cremated in New Jersey on Jan. 12.
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