News about Hilary Devey

After battling a long-running lung disease, the Dragons' Den actress died in Marrakesh at the age of 65 in June last year. However, her cash-free will raise concerns over her £80 million fortune and whether she trusted her only son, a recovering heroin user, with her money and homes around the world. Ms Devey's estate will be worthless. Experts have also pointed out that the figure may not have included any funds she held overseas. Ms Devey advised that the remainder, also known as the residuary, should be held in trust for her only son, Mevlite Brewster-Ahmet. Any types of trust are no longer subject to inheritance tax based on the person's death. Ms Devey, a one-time chain smoker, had a stroke in 2009 that left her with a paralysed arm. Following another health scare in 2017, she quit smoking after being "at least 20 a day for over 40 years." Ms Devey spent years preparing for her death but wanted to ensure a large portion of her fortune was passed on to her son, according to a friend of the actress. "I don't think she ever had that much money," her friend, who refused not to be identified, said. She paid out a little in her last divorce, though she may have given the majority of her money to her son if she knew she was dying.'

After fighting a long and difficult lung disease, the Dragon Den's actress died at her luxurious villa in Morocco (inset) in June 2022 at the age of 65. However, Devey's fortune, as well as whether it was inherited, is a mystery after the Daily Mail's Richard Eden revealed that she had not a single penny in her Last Will and Testament, which had been registered with the British authorities in 2021. Hilary earned more than £80 million in cash from a pallet business that was worth more than £100 million a year, and started selling Pall-Ex haulage in January 2020. The mother-of-one, who built her company empire with £110,000 cash earned from selling her modest house and car in the 1990s, has confirmed to having at least four homes in the United Kingdom, Morocco, Spain, and Boca Raton, Florida. But it is not clear if it has all gone to her beloved only child, Mevlit Brewster-Ahmet (left and inset, and right), who she admitted she'spoiled' him as a child while raising him up as a single mother and later spent £500,000 to help him recover from heroin use.

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Hilary Devey, a Dragons' Den resident, was haunted all her life after her father, who had owned a central heating company, went bankrupt. She used the experience as a catalyst as she continued to make a £80 million profit from the pallet company that she founded using funds earned from selling her house and car. However, there has been an extraordinary ending to her life story, 16 months after she died in Morocco at the age of 65 after a long illness. I can tell you that Devey left not a single penny in her will.

Claude Littner, a retired Apprentice actor, has admitted that he almost dropped Lord Sugar for a spot on rival BBC show Dragons' Den a few years ago. In a recent interview, the business executive, 73, explains how he was invited to serve on the panel but the panel eventually changed course and went with Hilary Devey instead. Claude - who appeared on the show in 2005 - will appear in The Apprentice's latest series, but in a limited capacity due to a cycling tragedy on January 5th.