This Is Who Inherited Tammy Wynette's Fortune

Singer-songwriter George Richey and Tammy Wynette married in 1978, her fifth marriage, and he became her manager. Georgette Jones Lennon alleged Richey was controlling and abusive to her mother. At the time of her death, Wynette’s estate was around $900,000, per Celebrity Net Worth. There were also two $1 million insurance policies, with the proceeds from one going to Richey and the other to Wynette’s daughters to be divided equally — but Jones Lennon told Dr. Drew that didn’t happen. She said Richey gave the four daughters $5,000 each and kept the rest.

Besides Wynette’s house and personal property, Richey also ended up with her intellectual property rights, which he sold for an undisclosed sum to a music publisher before he died in 2010, according to USA Today. Since Richey alleged he never found Wynette’s handwritten letter concerning her estate, he inherited nearly everything. “We never even received baby books, clothes, any personal items, absolutely nothing of our mother’s,” Jones Lennon recalled to Dr. Drew.

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