Shane MacGowan’s will left €1million fortune to wife Victoria Mary Clarke

The Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan left a €1million fortune to his wife Victoria Mary Clarke, we can reveal.

The singer died on November 30 last year at St Vincent’s Hospital Elm Park in Dublin – less than a month before his 66th birthday on Christmas Day. The Fairytale of New York hitmaker left his beloved wife an estate of €849,733 when he died.

The couple also owned a home together in the luxurious suburb of Ballsbridge in Dublin, which is reportedly worth a small fortune if ever sold. Public documents reveal MacGowan appointed Victoria as executor of his will.

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It said that if his wife Victoria died “predeceasing me/or dying simultaneously”, MacGowan wanted his sister Siobhan Hayes to inherit his estate.

Shane and Victoria married in 2018 in a fairytale ceremony in Copenhagen after 32 years together. Among 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 rock star’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.

Victoria and Shane didn’t have children, with Victoria admitting last week that kids “would not have survived”. She 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.” The hosts were impressed with Victoria’s “refreshing” and honest take on the fact that not everyone wants to be a parent.

Victoria said: “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.”

The journalist and 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.”

Victoria also spoke about the atmosphere at Shane’s funeral.

She said: “At his funeral there was a lot of laughter, dancing and singing. People enjoyed the funeral.”

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