Sinead O’Connor’s cause of death finally revealed as will details huge sum left to her kids, burial clothes & ashes wish
Sinead O’Connor’s cause of death finally revealed as will details huge sum left to her kids, burial clothes & ashes wish
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SINGER Sinead O’Connor left her children £1.7million — and urged them to “milk” sales of her music. The Nothing Compares 2 U star asked to be dressed in priest clothing in her coffin — and be buried with a Hebrew bible and her album Theology.
![[Sinead O'Connor attending the Che Tempo Che Fa Italian TV show.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/sinead-oconnor-attends-che-tempo-877106843.jpg?strip=all&w=639)
Tragic Sinead was found dead in her London flat aged 56 in 2023 — 18 months after son Shane, 17, took his own life. Irish probate records reveal her estate was £1.7million gross, reduced to £1.4million after debts, funeral costs and legal fees. The document, signed in 2013 before her conversion to Islam, added: “My children can dispense my ashes as they see fit.”.
![[WAREHAM, ENGLAND - AUGUST 03: Sinead O'Connor performs on stage at Camp Bestival at Lulworth Castle on August 3, 2014 in Wareham, United Kingdom. (Photo by Rob Ball/Redferns via Getty Images)]](https://www.thesun.ie/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2023/07/GettyImages-453119010jpeg-JS653984973-1-1.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
The mum-of-four, who sold 6.2million albums worldwide, added: “I direct that after my death, and at the discretion of any of my children who are then over 18, my albums are to be released so as to ‘milk it for what it’s worth’.”. She planned for Shane to inherit her religious regalia.
![[Black and white photo of Sinead O'Connor performing.]](https://www.thesun.ie/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2023/07/054b77b9-61ce-434d-b555-0b2c71cb2514.jpg?strip=all&w=809)
Her youngest child, Yeshua Bonadio, 18, was to be given her collection of guitars. Sinead’s ex-hubby music producer John Reynolds is named executor. They wed in 1987 but split in 1991. Details of her British estate are yet to be released. Dublin-born Sinead’s cause of death was given as “the exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and bronchial asthma”.
![[Sinead O'Connor hugging her son Shane.]](https://www.thesun.ie/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2023/07/5a000799-57b5-434a-9a74-a5040a50f6ea.jpg?strip=all&w=737)
