Star Wars fans were left devastated when Carrie Fisher passed away in 2016.
The actress – loved all over the world thanks to her Princess Leia role – died at the age of 60 days after falling ill on a flight from London to LA. A coroner later cited sleep apnoea, heart disease and drug use.
And there was more tragedy for her family, as her mother Debbie Reynolds died just a day later. The star passed away aged 84 after a stroke.
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The two stars left a fortune estimated to be around $95million between them, with reports suggesting Carrie left somewhere in the region of $25m and that Singin’ In The Rain star Debbie left around $70m.
Disagreement over inheritance?
According to Radar Online, there was a bit of a beef over the inheritance. At the time it was reported that Debbie had left her estate to Carrie and her son Todd, and her granddaughter Billie Lourd (Carrie’s daughter). As she died just a day after her daughter, she did not have the chance to change her will and Carrie’s estate was left to Billie.
But Radar once claimed that there was some disagreement, quoting a source as saying that Todd did not agree that the share of Debbie’s estate that would have gone to Carrie should automatically pass to Billie.
Hollywood Walk of Fame
Then last year it was reported that Carrie’s brother and two half-sisters Joely and Tricia Leigh Fisher were not invited as the late actress was honoured with a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
All three spoke out about it, with Todd telling TMZ he found it “heartbreaking and shocking” and the sisters saying on Instagram: “For some bizarre, misguided reason our niece has chosen not to include us in this epic moment in our sister’s career. This is something Carrie would have definitely wanted her siblings to be present for.
“The fact that her only brother and two sisters were intentionally and deliberately excluded is deeply shocking. We have all been grieving the loss of our favourite human for some years now… we have given Billie the space to do that in her own way. We have been nothing but loving and open, consistently.”
Billie later confirmed that they hadn’t been asked, saying in a statement that she did not invite them and that “they know why”. “Days after my mom died, her brother and her sister chose to process their grief publicly and capitalise on my mother’s death, by doing multiple interviews and selling individual books for a lot of money, with my mom and my grandmother’s deaths as the subject,” she said.
“I found out they had done this through the press. They never consulted me or considered how this would affect our relationship.”
Todd later insisted in a statement that he hadn’t capitalised on the deaths “and in no way meant to hurt Billie”. And he told Entertainment Tonight: “There was no money made on anything.”
Daily Star has contacted representatives for Billie and for the estate of Carrie for comment.
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