In a fresh will written only weeks before he took his own life, former Formula One boss Max Mosley left behind a £64 million fortune.
The 81-year-old, who had been told his disease was incurable, was discovered dead at his house in May 2021 after suffering a deadly shotgun gunshot to the head.
According to probate papers, the tycoon created a new will for his UK estate worth £63,709,200 on his birthday the month before he passed away.
The estate is worth far more than Mr. Mosley, who received a large portion of his wealth from his infamous fascist leader father Sir Oswald, was previously estimated to be worth.
Additionally, the businessman requested to be buried at an Oxfordshire church from the 12th century with his Nazi-supporting aunt Unity Mitford and mother Diana Mosley.
The 22-page will, which is dated April 13, 2021, reveals that Mr. Mosley left the majority of his fortune in trust for Jean, his wife of 61 years. However, she passed away in the fall of last year, months after her husband, so Patrick, their son, would stand to gain.
Additionally, Mr. Mosley gave Patrick his magnificent £5 million mews mansion in Knightsbridge, close to Harrods.
Mr. Mosley also requested that £3 million be put aside for Horatio Mortimer, a close friend of his late son Alexander.
Mr. Mortimer serves as a trustee for the Alexander Mosley Charitable Trust, which was established in the wake of Alexander’s 2009 drug-overdose death at the age of 39.
The Trust caused a stir by giving £12 million to Oxford University, where Alexander attended St. Peter’s College, last year.
Despite the family’s long-standing ties to Nazism, the University came under fire for receiving the cash.
Sir Oswald Mosley, the father of Mr. Mosley, wed Diana in 1936 in front of Adolf Hitler at the residence of Joseph Goebbels, the head of the Nazi propaganda machine.
Because of their Nazi sympathies, both of his parents spent the most of the war in prison while he was a youngster. His socialite mother, known as the “most despised lady” during the Second World War, passed away incorrupt at the age of 93 in 2003.
According to Mr. Mosley’s will, he wanted to be buried in St. Mary’s Church in the Cotswolds beside his mother and aunt Unity, who had committed suicide by shooting herself in the head the day the war was declared in 1939. Her brain suffered from the tragedy, and she passed away in 1948.
On May 23, 2021, Mr. Mosley was discovered dead in his bedroom only five weeks after writing his will.
He had been informed by doctors that he had a “very low life expectancy” and that his cancer was incurable.
An inquest heard how Mr. Mosley had a farewell lunch with his wife, wrote a suicide note that was discovered the next day, and then killed himself in his bedroom. When his assistant and housekeeper saw a message saying, “Do not enter, contact the police,” on his bedroom door, they dialled 999.
Officers discovered Mr. Mosley’s corpse on his bed with a shotgun with two barrels between his legs and a message on the table that was covered in blood.
I had no choice was the only phrase that could be read.
In 1969, Mr. Mosley co-founded March Engineering as a motor racing team in Bicester, Oxfordshire, marking his entry into the commercial world. From 1993 until 2009, he served as the FIA’s president. During that time, he oversaw significant safety modifications in Formula One.
He allegedly attended a Nazi-themed orgy with five prostitutes, according to images and video of him released in 2008 by the News of the World.
After successfully arguing in court that the exposé violated his privacy, he funded a campaign to limit press freedom, which many saw as an effort to stifle the public’s right to information.