Tina Turner died on Wednesday May 24 in Switzerland, the country of which she had taken nationality. While the star has lost two of her sons, who will inherit what the queen of rock’n’roll leaves behind?
Tina Turner’s life has been marked by many dramas. Among them, the loss of two of his children. The first in 2018, with the suicide at 59 of Craig Turner, the fruit of his union with saxophonist Raymon Hill, when the singer was only 18 years old. Four years later, last December, she lost her second son Ronnie Turner, born of her marriage to her first husband Ike Turner. The star’s youngest son and husband of Afida Turner, Ronnie has died aged just 62 of complications from colon cancer.
But besides her two sons, Tina Turner raised two other children, Ike JR. and Michael, born from her ex-husband Ike Turner’s first marriage to Lorraine Taylor. Two boys Tina Turner adopted after her 1962 marriage to Ike Turner and continued to care for when she divorced their father in 1978 after years of domestic violence.
Ex-husband Ike Turner’s two sons could inherit
While Tina Turner adopted Ike JR. and Michael, the latter should theoretically benefit from part of his inheritance. Indeed, according to Swiss law – Tina Turner renounced her American citizenship and acquired Swiss nationality in 2013 – adopted children have the same inheritance rights as other children. The two sons of her ex-husband Ike Turner should therefore appear in the estate of Tina Turner, alongside her current husband.
It seems unlikely that the German producer Erwin Bach, 67, whose life Tina Turner shared in 1985, and to whom she said “yes” in 2013, does not appear in her estate. He who in 2017, had donated one of his kidneys to his wife when she was seriously ill. It is therefore a safe bet that after nearly 40 years of common life, her husband is one of her heirs. In the absence of a will, Swiss law on inheritance provides for a 50/50 distribution of the inheritance between the spouse and the children.
His daughter-in-law Afida Turner among the heirs?
Although Afida Turner, passed by the show “Le Loft”, was for a time among the heirs of Tina Turner through her husband Ronnie, before the latter’s death, the 46-year-old singer has no guaranteed to benefit from a part of Tina Turner’s legacy.
Since they are not blood relatives, widowed daughters-in-law have no legal right to the inheritance of their in-laws, unless the latter have expressly expressed this in their wills.
