The socialite - who took her own life last July - instead split her millions between the four sons she shared with rocker Bryan. Lucy is said to have signed a codicil to her will just six days before her death - making her brother Charles Helmore one of her executors, along with a solicitor, in place of her cousin and niece.
The former model's will, which was drawn up in , stipulated that her fortune should go to her sons Merlin, Isaac, Tara and Otis Ferry six months after her death. Why did Bryan Ferry wear an eye patch? In Love is the Drug, Bryan Ferry's eye patch was mistakenly taken as a fashion statement, which the moustache and the GI uniform certainly were in the five track segment filmed in Sweden in Lingfen Bencheikh Explainer.
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The statement, released in conjunction with her children, said: "On Monday Lucy Birley nee Helmore passed away whilst on holiday in Ireland, surrounded by her beloved dogs, Daisy, Peg and Daphne.
Birley was known as a model and society heiress in her younger days, and later dabbled in photography. In , Birley told The Guardian that she retreated from public life following the breakdown of her year marriage to Ferry and for other personal reasons, including the furore around their son Otis's storming of the Commons chambers to protest against the fox-hunting ban. You only appeared in papers if you were born, married or had died. That affected me when I got married to Bryan.
The former couple couldn't have come from more different backgrounds, with Ferry the son of a miner and she was the daughter of a man who made millions in the City. Lucy was well-educated and welcomed in the finest houses in London with her family were linked to two baronetcies.
A friend said when they split: 'She gave Bryan what he wanted more than anything else in the world - a touch of real class. In her last major interview in she told the Guardian: 'I was very surprised when I met Bryan that he was interested in going out with me.
It seemed slightly surreal I suppose'. They married in and he toured the world with her husband: 'It was exhilarating', she said, adding: 'I learned a lot from Bryan and met a lot of other artists I probably never would have met otherwise. I was very young and I was bowled over by the whole idea of touring and recording, and the world being open to you. Initially she was a stabalising influence on her husband but as he focussed on his work she fell into addiction.
She said: 'I know I have an addictive personality. I grew up with alcoholism. My father was an alcoholic. It's genetic, partly'. The couple, pictured left in and right in , split but remained amicable describing it as a 'working relationship' and met with their children.
Lucy clings to her son Otis at the funeral of friend Isabella Blow, the magazine editor and muse of hat designer Philip Treacy. Lucy pictured left and right in after divorcing Bryan was a model and photographer who said she 'drifted' from Bryan Ferry before their high-profile split.
Gaps between Bryan's releases reached up to six years in the early s as he supported his wife. Before her death she had been teetotal since after she was detoxed during a nine week stint at Farm Place clinic, near Ockley in Surrey, helped her beat drink and drugs. Mr Ferry said Lucy was the inspiration for much of his later music and she appeared on the cover of his band's eighth and final album Avalon, albeit under a helmet.
The following January Bryan spent the New Year on his own in Barbados, working on an album as he concentrated on his work. Within ten years they had split having 'drifted apart' but still got on, she said, adding: 'We have a sort of working relationship to do with our children, but we don't see each other on any other basis'.
But there was a notable absentee on their wedding day - the groom's father Mark. Despite the couple's efforts to heal the rift in the bridegroom's family, Mark, the man who created Annabel's nightclub - named after his ex-wife - failed to show up to support his son.
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