The London probate office's figures indicate that Lemmy had an estate worth only £528,806 (approximately $650,000) when he died in December 2015.

 

Lemmy was originally thought to have had a substantial estate — estimated by some sources to have been around £6.75 million (around $8.28 million) — which is expected to earn royalties from his recordings worldwide for decades to come.

 

The beneficiary of Lemmy's estate was believed to be his son Paul Inder, with various reports indicating that the MOTORHEAD had at least one other son in Bradford, England who was adopted in early life.

 

For more than two decades, Lemmy resided in West Hollywood, California after expressing his desire never to live in Britain again. He reportedly spent much of his time alone in the same two-bedroom apartment he had occupied since settling in L.A.

Asked in a 2009 interview with SPIN magazine why he never bought a house in the Hollywood Hills, Lemmy said: "I can't afford it. We didn't sell many albums. I wrote the words to 'Mama, I'm Coming Home' for Ozzy [Osbourne], and I made more from that song than I had from MOTORHEAD at that point."

 

He added: "I'm not going to die broke, but I'm not rich. I pay taxes [in the U.S.], but I'm not a citizen — they won't give me citizenship. I got busted for two sleeping pills on New Year's Eve in 1971, so, obviously, I'm a threat to the kids in America, you know."