Writer Pinter’s estranged son leaps to late father’s defence
HAROLD PINTER’S son Daniel — who refused to speak to the playwright for 15 years prior to his death — has spoken up in defence of his late father’s memory.
He takes issue with the suggestion that Pinter’s house in Hanover Terrace, London, was a place of ‘chilly grandeur’.
Styling himself as ‘Daniel “Last of the Line” Brand (for I am he)’, he tells the Oldie magazine: ‘Not so. “Chilly” is one thing Hanover Terrace never was.’ He also denies that Pinter senior was a member of the nouveau riche.
Pinter left more than £4.3 million in his will, including £300,000 to Daniel. The pair fell out after Pinter’s acrimonious divorce from his first wife — and Daniel’s mother — actress Vivien Merchant and Daniel did not attend his father’s 2008 funeral.
Writer and musician Daniel changed his surname to Brand, his maternal grandmother’s maiden name, when he left home.