Sir Bruce Forsyth's widow bags £5.4m after closing down husband's business

Sir Bruce Forsyth’s widow is to land a £5.4million windfall after closing down her husband’s business.

Former Miss World Lady Wilnelia put Bruce Forsyth Enterprises into voluntary liquidation this week.

It had £5,387,592 in cash in its coffers – which will be paid to her in a year. Sir Bruce had reportedly left £11.5million to Lady Wilnelia in his will while his son and five daughters got nothing, to ­avoid inheritance tax.

Probate shows former Strictly host Sir Bruce, who died at 89 in 2017, left £100,000 to his nine grandkids. ­Everything else in his estate, after funeral and legal costs, went to Lady Wilnelia. That included two properties in her native Puerto Rico.

The late entertainer Sir Bruce Forsyth (PA)

Lady also inherited two properties in her native Puerto Rico (Mirrorpix)

The ex-actress met Sir Bruce when they were judges at the 1980 Miss World.

She won the title in 1975. They married in 1983 and had a son, JJ, now 30.

Sir Bruce’s ­daughters were from his previous two marriages to Penny Calvert and Anthea Redfearn.

Lady Wilnelia has told of her of struggle to cope with his death. She said: “My two-year-old
step-granddaughter asks: ‘Winny, where’s Grandpa? When’s he coming home?’ It destroys me. I cry.”