According to information from Parisian and of BFM TV, the lifeless body of the British singer was found, this Sunday, July 16, 2023, at her Parisian home by her caregiver. The causes of his death have not yet been revealed. In recent years, Jane Birkin had had to deal with many health problems. In 2012, health problems already prevented him from going on stage. Her manager Olivier Gluzman had explained that she suffered from “acute pericarditis followed by multiple recurrences”which forced her to “complete rest”. This pericarditis, inflammation of a membrane that envelops the heart muscle, had turned into leukemia. After several months of care and rest, the artist confided, on the occasion of the release of “Birkin / Gainsbourg: The Symphony”that she “was fine”before adding: “I understood that, like it or not, I no longer had ten years ahead of me”. Then, in September 2021, her family announced in a press release that she had been the victim of a “mild form of stroke”. A stroke which, once again, prevented him from exercising his passion on stage. And, in March 2023, victim of a fractured shoulder blade, Jane Birkin had been forced to cancel a series of concerts… A few weeks after appearing very diminished in Lyon during a concert by the Motherfuckers. Two months after communicating his love to his fans: “I have always been a great optimist, and I realize that I still need a little time to be able to be on stage again and with you. I love being with you so much. I miss you”, Jane Birkin is dead.
⚫ Jane Birkin died at the age of 76➡️ https://t.co/A5R6V1dG5tpic.twitter.com/oVaYxRhdH7
– The Parisian (@le_Parisian) July 16, 2023
“I was able to buy my own house in Normandy, where we went as often as possible so as not to suffer from Serge’s regulations!
The singer and actress had three children, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Lou Doillon (whose father is director Jacques Doillon) and Kate Berry, her eldest daughter who committed suicide in 2013, whose father was the famous composer John Barry. At the time of his death, what do we know of the inheritance left to his two daughters? Singer, actress, screenwriter and director, the ex-girlfriend of Serge Gainsbourg would have had the opportunity to accumulate a nice heritage throughout his life. According to the magazine Gala, she was at one time the owner of several fairly well-known houses, one in Paris and the other in Brittany. The first, informs the magazine ADwas located in the VIe arrondissement that she lived in for about ten years, in the 1990s. Without knowing its size, it is difficult to estimate its value. The other remains Prat ar Coum mansion, is on the north bank of the Aber, in Brittany. This classic half-timbered property has since been sold, said Jane Birkin, who remains very discreet about her heritage, even though she explained that she had earned a lot of money with Claude Zidi’s films: “I was able to buy my own house in Normandy, where we went as often as possible so as not to suffer from Serge’s regulations! Rue de Verneuil was still like living in an art gallery. Whereas in Cresseveuille, life was wild, in the little presbytery where the children were free all day, as I had been with my brother and my sister on the Isle of Wight. We needed this valve, the rue de Verneuil was too stuffy…”she said in Paris Match.
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Serge Gainsbourg’s legacy divided into four!
In 2018, she still explained that she wanted to offload some of her property: “I sold the house in Paris, the house in Brittany. I do my concerts, I move… You have to empty and I try to keep everything. I’m nostalgic for what I’m leaving when I only wanted that. I am transitioning. I feel floating”. A life of luxury and nomadic at the same time that she will also have lived with Serge Gainsbourg known in particular for his “extravagant taxi notes” or his “tipping to multiple zeros” as BFMTV reminds us. As for the latter, his inheritance, essentially made up of royalties, was divided between his four children: Natacha and Paul, born in the 1960s from his second marriage, Charlotte, whom he had with Jane Birkin and finally Lulu, the son of his last companion, Bambou, born in 1986. An important musical heritage, with more than 500 songs and many hits, therefore substantial royalties, managed by the company Melody Nelson Publishinggcreated by Gainsbourg in the early 1970s. It is a comfortable business since the company’s turnover can vary between 350,000 and 450,000 euros per year. “It’s square”summarizes Charlotte Gainsbourg at Parisian in 2018, specifying that there was no “of confusion” between the artist’s children.
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