14 DAY TRIAL // At the time of his death in 2001, George Harrison had left behind a fortune estimated at $300 million (€220.4 million), which he’d made as a member of the biggest group of all times, The Beatles. His sister, 82-year-old Louise, is now living in complete poverty.
Louise Harrison says she drew the short stick when her brother died and she found out that he’d left her nothing in the will, because he had bequeathed his entire fortune to his wife Olivia and their son Dhani. She laments to the National Enquirer (story via Radar Online) that she got “screwed,” though she doesn’t go into specifics.
Louise is now 82 years old and she still has to work for a living because she has no other source of revenue. Until George’s death, she used to receive a $2,000 (€1,469) a month pension from his earnings but, when he passed, the pension was gone too.
She had to sell her house to make ends meet. She worked as a manager of a tribute Beatles band and did appearances on demand to speak of George and their childhood. She’s now living in a trailer in Missouri, in an area described as “seedy” because it’s “a magnet for drug addicts and meth labs.”
“I don’t have any money,” Louise tells the tab. “We’ve been struggling for the last two years or so.”
“I would like to be able to afford to move somewhere better. But when you don’t have much money, there’s not much you can do,” Louise says. She’s very bitter that, at her age, she has to work.
“The Harrison Family Trust didn’t want to give that to me any more and I wasn’t in any position to argue. I guess I got screwed. I’m 82 and still working. Whoever decided that I was not deserving of $2,000 [€1,469] a month any more, that person obviously does not have much of a soul or a heart of anything else,” Louise says.
Though she’s very specific about the conditions she’s living in, she doesn’t mention why George cut her out of his will.