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

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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.

The late Shane MacGowan(Image: Instagram: Victoria Mary Clarke)

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.

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