Pogues icon Shane MacGowan’s will reveals what he left behind for wife Victoria

The Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan left behind less than €1M fortune to his Victoria Mary Clarke, we can reveal.

The singer died on November 30 last year at St Vincent’s Hospital Elm Park in Dublin, just less than a month before his 66th birthday on Christmas Day.

We can exclusively reveal the Fairytale of New York hitmaker left his beloved wife Victoria Mary Clarke an estate of €849,733 when he died.

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The couple own a home together in the luxurious suburb in Ballsbridge in Dublin, which is reportedly worth a small fortune if ever sold. Public documents reveal MacGowan appointed Victoria as executor of his will. In the event of Victoria “predeceasing me/or dying simultaneously”, MacGowan said he wanted to leave his estate to his sister Siobhan Hayes “for her own absolute use and benefit”.

Shane and Victoria married in 2018 in a fairytale ceremony in Copenhagen after a whopping 32 years together. Amongst the intimate crew of friends and family at the wedding included Hollywood A-Lister Johnny Depp, who has been a huge support to Victoria since the late rockstar’s death.

It was previously reported that MacGowan raked in most of his fortune in royalties from The Pogue’s much-loved 1988 festive hit Fairytale of New York. The song made him €250,000 to €300,000 a year, according to Business Plus.

It was thought MacGowan left behind a £4.3M fortune. However, we can now reveal MacGowan left behind €849,733 in the wake of his death. Victoria and Shane didn’t have children, with Victoria admitting last week that kids “would not have survived.”

Victoria was a guest on the latest episode of the ‘What A Woman Podcast’, hosted by Caroline Lyons and Sarah Benner. Speaking about having kids, she said: “It wasn’t part of our story. I don’t think children would have really survived, honestly I don’t.” The hosts were impressed with Victoria’s “refreshing” and honest take on the fact that not everyone wants to be a parent.

“I’ve never understood that. That would be like you telling me that everybody should want to be a bungee jumper or a racing driver – I can’t understand that. It doesn’t make sense to me. I can see how people think that having children is going to give them some kind of continuity, something will live on when they die or maybe somebody will look after them when they’re old. I can see that because there’s a practical side to it. But I just never.”

The artist explained how she reacted to Shane’s death and the aftermath. She said: “It’s nothing that you could ever really prepare for, I don’t think. I’m sure there are people that have had a similar situation, but until it’s happened to you, you don’t know how you’ll react.

“It was something that I would have been afraid of for a very long time, because very soon after me and Shane got together people started telling me that he didn’t have very long to live. That would have been in 1986.

“People started telling me that Shane probably had six months to live, because of the way he pushed himself. I spent most of the time worrying about him and worrying that something was going to happen to him.

“But even then, you might worry about something but that doesn’t mean you know what it’s going to be like. It’s like worrying about a car crash. Until you’ve been in a car crash, you just don’t know what it will really feel like.

“It surprised me that it wasn’t all terrible. I assumed that you would go into a deep depression and nothing would lift you out of it, that you would lose the will to live completely and stay like that.

“I had experienced depression and that’s what it feels like. I assumed it would be like depression, but worse. It did surprise me that we were able to celebrate Shane. At his funeral there was a lot of laughter, dancing and singing. People enjoyed the funeral,” she said.

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