Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe expressed a wish to cremated and have his ashes scattered in Paris by his ex-wife.
The notorious serial killer spent his honeymoon in the French capital with his former partner Sonia Woodward in 1974.
His former wife, who divorced him in 1994, remains his next-of-kin and holds the legal rights to arrange his funeral.
Sutcliffe’s younger brother, Carl, 61, said he had no plans to attend the ceremony and has ‘washed his hands’ of him, the Mirror reports.
Mrs Woodward, who remarried in 1997, is also expected to inherit her former husband's possessions.
Sutcliffe, 74, died at the University Hospital of North Durham just after 1am on Friday after being diagnosed with coronavirus.
The serial killer, who murdered at least 13 women from all walks of life, had been in deteriorating health for months, suffering from underlying conditions including diabetes, heart trouble and obesity.
It is said that he refused medical treatment for the virus.
Carl said he expects it will be Mrs Woodward who arranges the funeral.
But Sutcliffe's other brother, Michael, 70, disputed the claim.
He told the Daily Mail: "It has nowt to do with her. She isn't his wife any more, is she?"
Michael was the only sibling still in regular contact with Sutcliffe, speaking weekly by phone.
Carl told the Mirror that Sutcliffe remained totally obsessed and "in love" with his ex-wife, even after he was locked up and she had moved on and remarried.
When Sonia's mother died, Sutcliffe asked Carl to attend the funeral as his representative.
Carl tells how when he went back to Sonia and Sutcliffe's former marital home for the wake, he was shown a room full of bizarre artwork.
Carl said: "Sonia said to me, 'Oooh, come and see this room'. She took me upstairs and there's a room full of paintings Peter had done. One with their heads on.
"Peter's head was on top of a soldier and she was a woman in full dress. They were battle scenes some of them, Battle of Waterloo, that sort of period.
"If you looked Sonia's head was on one of them and Peter's on the other. He used to love to paint."
Mrs Woodward never sold their marital home in Manningham, Bradford, despite not living there.
The house they bought in 1977 for £16,000 is now worth around £250,000 but, should she sell it, Sutcliffe's share could go to benefit the victims' families.
Mrs Woodward returns to the semi-detached house to quietly tend the garden.
Sutcliffe was serving a whole-life tariff for murdering 13 women across Yorkshire and the North West between 1975 and 1980, and had brutally attacked at least seven more, who survived.
Born in Bingley, West Yorkshire, in 1946, Sutcliffe left school aged 15 and worked in menial jobs before becoming a grave digger.
He began his killing spree in 1975 and avoided detection for years due to a series of missed opportunities by police to snare him.
He eventually confessed in 1981 after he was caught in Sheffield.
Despite his 24-hour-long confession to the killings, Sutcliffe denied the murders when he appeared in court.
In May 1981, he was jailed for 20 life terms at the Old Bailey, with the judge recommending a minimum sentence of 30 years.
He was transferred from Parkhurst prison on the Isle of Wight to Broadmoor secure hospital in Berkshire in 1984, after he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.
In 2010, he was told he would never be released, and was later deemed fit enough to be treated as an inmate and was returned to maximum security prison.
