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EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Unorthodox artist Dame Phyllida leaves a stunning £91million legacy - almost every penny she earned in the last 13 years
EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: I can disclose that Dame Phyllida, who died last year aged 78, bequeathed a fortune of no less than £91.5 million - almost every penny earned in the last 13 years of her life.
The details, revealed in probate documents, represent an extraordinary transformation for an artist, who, as one obituary recorded, ‘for decades sold nothing’ — a fact which suggested that her enthusiasm for creating ramshackle works from a magpie hoard of luridly painted junk was not widely shared. The 23-year-old model, whose mother is Law’s ex-wife Sadie Frost, wore a sheer Saint Laurent lace dress to the premiere of The Shrouds, a horror film starring Diane Kruger and Guy Pearce. Tory grandee Sir David Davis was desperate to attend the launch party at the Carlton Club in St James’s London for Finding Margaret: Solving The Mystery Of My Birth Mother, the roller-coaster new memoir by my colleague Andrew Pierce.
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