Sinéad O’Connor leaves $1.7M to her kids, urges them to ‘milk’ sales of her music
Sinéad O’Connor reportedly left all $1.7 million of her estate to her children after her 2023 death, probate records obtained by the US Sun reveal. Though, after the payment of debts, funeral costs and legal fees, the figure was reduced to $1.4 million.
As another part of her final wishes, the singer also directed that her albums be released after her death and “at the discretion of any of my children who are then over 18,” so “as to ‘milk it for what it’s worth.’”
Included in the document, O’Connor requested to be dressed in priest clothing in her coffin with a Hebrew bible and her album “Theology” at her side.
“My children can dispense my ashes as they see fit,” she claimed in the document, which was signed in 2013.
She also intended for her youngest son, 18-year-old Yeshua Bonadio, to inherit her guitar collection and son Shane, who died by suicide in 2022, to be given her religious items.
The singer’s ex-husband, John Reynolds, whom she was married to from 1987 to 1991, was named as executor of her estate.
Details of her British estate have not yet been shared with the public.
The “Nothing Compares 2 U” hitmaker died on July 26, 2023, just 18 months after the death of son Shane. She was 56.
Police found her “unresponsive” at an apartment in London and she was “pronounced dead at the scene.”
Her cause of death was listed as a combination of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma.
She was also suffering from a respiratory tract infection, which contributed to her death.
Her family announced the matriarch’s death in a statement to RTÉ at the time.
“It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved Sinéad,” her family said at the time. “Her family and friends are devastated and have requested privacy at this very difficult time.”
