A forgotten son of Lucian Freud has been denied a share of his father’s vast fortune and will never know what was in the artist’s will after a High Court judge ruled its contents should remain a secret.
Paul McAdam Freud failed in his attempt to challenge the validity of a section of his father’s will which meant that only two people in the world would know the distribution of his £96 million fortune.
The artist, who died aged 88 in 2011 leaving behind at least 14 children, created a will, which after legacies and tax, left the remaining £42 million equally to one of his daughters Rose Pearce and his trusted solicitor and friend Diana Rawstron.
