Sharif’s trans ex left just £38k

APRIL ASHLEY, the transgender model and actress who made her name in the Swinging Sixties as a muse of David Bailey and lover of Omar Sharif, left just £ 38,000 in her will.

One of the first to have pioneering surgery to change from a man to a woman, she coached Eddie Redmayne for the film The Danish Girl in 2015. Probate documents reveal that she left her literary estate and possessions to friends Beverley Ayre, a producer, and Lou Muddle, a project consultant. Ashley, who died last December aged 86, had a gross estate of £90,000, reduced to £38,000 after her affairs were settled. The balance will go to Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in her home city of Liverpool.