Len Goodman reportedly left his wife and son a whopping £4.1million in his will following his tragic death from bone cancer last April.
The Strictly Come Dancing judge, who also appeared on the US version of the show, sadly passed away just six months after his retirement and one day before his 79th birthday.
According Sun Len left his fortune to his wife Sue Barrett and son James from a previous marriage, as well as a £1,000 donation to a children’s hospice in Sittingbourne.
The will, said to have been drawn up in 2020, said the estate would be divided equally between his wife and son.
The newspaper reports that while the dancer’s house was left in Sue’s hands, his jewelry was bequeathed to James.
Len Goodman reportedly left his wife and son a whopping £4.1million in his will following his tragic death from bone cancer last April.
The Strictly Come Dancing judge, who also appeared on the US version of the show, sadly passed away just six months after his retirement and one day before his 79th birthday.
Len reportedly left his fortune to his wife Sue Barrett and son James from a previous marriage, as well as a £1000 donation to a children’s hospice in Sittingbourne (Len and Sue in 2010).
Len’s company, Pleasurable Pastimes Limited, will also be split between the couple, after both are already co-directors of the company.
MailOnline has contacted Len’s former agent for comment.
Sue is a former professional dance instructor, almost 20 years his junior and not much is known about her, Len previously said: “She likes to stay out of the spotlight.”
He regularly referred to her as “my wonderful Sue” and told the Mail “she is beautiful and makes me very happy.”
The star, who never had children with Sue, also joked that his wife was lucky to share a bed with him because he falls asleep immediately.
He then said: “I’m fine in bed, I don’t snore.” I’m not wearing the duvet. I lie there and immediately go to sleep. That’s all you want in a guy.
Len was previously married to his dance partner Cherry Kingston when he was 28 years old and He admitted in his autobiography “Better late than never” that “it was a dancing marriage, missing the spark of true love.”
However, when she left him for a French millionaire, he ‘felt hurt; It hurts me that she did it, it hurts me the way I found out…’
The will, said to have been drawn up in 2020, said the estate would be divided equally between his wife and son (Len and son James pictured).
The paper reports that while the dancer’s house was left in Sue’s hands, his jewelry was bequeathed to James (Len pictured with grandson Jack).
Len was previously married to his dance partner Cherry Kingston when he was 28 (pictured in 1970)
After separating from Kingston, Goodman had another long-term partner: “a very attractive girl called Lesley,” according to his autobiography.
Goodman wrote that she was the first woman he had fallen in love with and together they welcomed their son James William Goodman in 1981.
“Life, however, was not as happy as it should have been,” Goodman wrote via the Daily Mail.
“Sadly, it got to the point where being with Lesley was simply impossible for me and she couldn’t stand being with me either.”
James followed in his father’s footsteps and trained to be a dancer.
He is now a Latin and ballroom dancer and teaches at his father’s dance center, Goodman Dance Academy.
James is married to Sophie Goodman and they share two children, Alice and Jack.
