Who has Freddie Mercury’s royalties?

Queen Productions Ltd is jointly and equally owned by the three living Queen founder members – Brian May, Roger Taylor, and John Deacon – plus the estate of Freddie Mercury.

Why did Freddie Mercury leave everything to Mary Austin?

Mary tried to persuade Freddie to leave the house in trust as a memorial to his life and work for fans to visit, but he was determined to make her his heir. She recalled his powerful words her: “If things had been different, you would have been my wife and this would have been yours anyway.”

Did Freddie Mercury leave anything to Jim Hutton?

However, on his death, Freddie only left Jim £500,000 ($1million at the time of his death) and left most of his wealth to his first love, Mary Austin. It has been reported that Jim believed Freddie intended to leave him the house, however Freddie’s former assistant Peter Freestone said this was unlikely the case.

How much did Mary inherit from Freddie Mercury?

Now the huge success of the movie about the band Queen will see Mary Austin, the former fiancee of lead singer Freddie Mercury, scoop around $75million in royalties. She met Mercury in 1970 when she was a 19-year-old art student and they moved in together before he was famous.