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Why Monty Python have ALWAYS been at war over money: For years, they have hurled vicious insults at each other about daughters, wives in never-ending financial feuding. Now Eric Idle, once a millionaire, claims he is penniless...
Comic geniuses, the lot of them. Few people could disagree that the six stars of Monty Python, the troupe behind TV's most surreal sketch show, were all individually brilliant.
For most people, that's a lifetime's earnings crammed into a fortnight.But to the Pythons, it was a reluctant obligation, forced on them by a disastrous court case – resulting from just one of a catalogue of guileless decisions and poor financial judgments, going back decades. The settlement cleaned him out, forcing him to sell off his art collection and memorabilia from box office hits such as A Fish Called Wanda, as well as his house in Holland Park, west London, which went for £2.5million. Despite signing that film rights agreement he knew little about, Palin has displayed the greatest financial acumen of the Pythons, having bought and knocked through two houses either side of the north London terrace property he's lived in since the late 1960s.
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