Rolf Harris's wife leaves £4million and will says where it is going

The widow of TV star Rolf Harris left nearly £4million in her will, new documents show. Alwen Hughes died aged 92 last August, one year after the jailed entertainer's death. The Welsh sculptress and jeweller married Harris in 1958 and stayed with him after he was convicted of indecent assault on young girls. Harris died aged 93 in May 2023.

Hughes, of Maidenhead, Berkshire, died from a stroke after suffering from vascular dementia. Now documents show her estate was worth £3,975,950, reduced to a net value of £3,840,532 after deductions.

It was left to the administration of Ian John Sydenham of Manchester-based law firm DWF. Her complex will dated July 2018, before Rolf Harris' death, shows she had included him in it. It also revealed that after his death their daughter, Ava Reeves, became the main beneficiary.

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The sculptress and jeweller married Harris in 1958 and remained with her husband after he was convicted of indecent assault on young girls. Harris died aged 93 on May 10 2023 of neck cancer and "frailty of old age", according to his death certificate. Fifteen months after his death, Hughes died on August 15, 2024, from a stroke after suffering with the fragility of old age and vascular dementia, according to a death certificate obtained by The Mirror.

The Windsor and Maidenhead Register Office confirmed her death was registered with them. Harris was 84 when a jury at Southwark Crown Court unanimously found him guilty of 12 counts of indecent assault involving victims as young as seven or eight, in July 2014.

He was sentenced to five years and nine months. In May 2017 Harris was released on licence. In the same month he was formally cleared of four unconnected historical sex offences, which he had denied. Later that year, one of the 12 indecent assault convictions was overturned by the Court of Appeal. He was one of the most popular and talented entertainers of his generation until he was exposed as a paedophile and serial sexual predator.

More distant relations were also included in Hughes's will. In 2023, it was reported Ava had changed her name in a bid to cut ties with the disgraced entertainer's legacy. The now 61-year-old, who formerly went by the name Bindi Harris, became Ava Reeves.

She is the couple's only child. A source close to the family said she had changed her name to be taken seriously in the art .