BATTLE OVER TINA’S $250M FORTUNE!
Simply a mess!
ROCK queen Tina Turner must be rolling in her grave as a bitter battle over her $250 million fortune is simmering between her cocaine-crazed adopted son, Ike Turner Jr., and her producer hubby, Erwin Bach, tipsters claim.
Recently jailed following a bizarre drug bust, bitter 64-year-old Ike Jr., whose violent dad, Ike Turner, was Tina’s first husband, feels he deserves more than his adoptive mom left him in her still-unopened will, insiders say.
Tina, 83, died after battling a myriad of illnesses including heart and kidney issues at the Swiss home she shared with 67-year-old hubby Bach on May 24 — and insiders say
Ike Jr. mourns her as “the only mother he’s ever known.” Mark Bego, author of Tina Turner: Break Every Rule, says, “Ike and Tina had a crazy quilt of a family. Tina raised her kids with Ike, his kids with other women, and her child with another man, too. Whether they’ll be in the will, too, is anyone’s guess!”
The Proud Mary singer had biological sons Craig, who committed suicide in 2018, with musician Raymond nd Hill, and Ronnie, who died of cancer and heart disease five months before her passing, with Ike, who fathered Ike Jr. with another woman. She also left behind two grandchildren and five greatgrandchildren — most of whom she never met.
Ronnie’s widow, Afida, maintains Erwin, who Tina wed in 2013 after a 27-year romance, is set to inherit almost half of her estimated $250 million fortune.
Afida adds it’s not clear who would inherit the rest, and a source says an official reading of the will won’t be public. Less than three weeks before Tina’s death, on May 6, cops in Alvin, Texas, stopped Ike Jr. just after midnight for driving with a broken tail light.
They arrested him for crack cocaine possession after they say he tried to hide the drug by eating it. He was jailed on a $70,000 bond.
Ike Jr. says Tina raised i ed him from age two and he worked for her as a sound engineer.
“When my mother and father separated, he did not want me working with her — and he beat me in the head with a nickel-plated .45 pistol,” Ike Jr. recalls.
Bego says, “Ike Jr. put up with the same sort of physical abuses that Tina dealt with, at the hands of Ike. And, since he was loyal to Tina, he’s convinced he’s entitled to a big chunk of her estate, too.”