Fashion designer Alexander McQueen left £50,000 of his £16million fortune to his pet dogs, his will has revealed.
The money is to be put into a trust to ensure his beloved pets’ upkeep for the rest of their lives.
McQueen, 40, who hanged himself last year, has donated almost all of his £16,036,500 fortune to charity.
The Terrence Higgins Trust, Battersea Dogs and Cats Home, the London Buddhist Centre and the Blue Cross sick animal centre in Burford, Oxfordshire, have all received £100,000 each.
The designer has left the remainder of his estate in a trust for his Sarabande charity. He asked the charity to consider using this money to fund bursaries and grants for students at Central St Martin’s College of Art and Design in London, where he studied fashion.
His housekeepers, Marlene and Cesar Garcia, were left £50,000 for “long and faithful service”.
McQueen, known as Lee to friends and family, was born in London’s East End in March 1969. He left school at 16 but quickly rose through the fashion industry to become one of the worldÕs leading designers.
He hanged himself after taking a cocktail of cocaine, sleeping pills and tranquillisers on February 11 last year, the day before his mother Joyce’s funeral. - Daily Mail