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As The Sun revealed details of the five-page document dividing up his wealth, it immediately raised eyebrows among the singer’s inner circle. They were stunned to find George had snubbed several people who had been important to him, including his long-time Wham! bandmate Andrew Ridgeley.
One friend said the list of 11 beneficiaries “is like a time warp” as most of them featured in his life during his Eighties heyday. And despite the huge sums involved, George left almost all his key decisions to his eldest sister Yioda.
Fiercely reclusive Yioda was his closest confidante and still lives at the home in Goring-upon-Thames, Oxon, where the star was found dead on Christmas Day 2016. There are also question marks over the singer’s frame of mind at the time he signed the will in January 2013.
Just four months later he was flung from his car while travelling at speed on the M1 motorway. Friends feared at the time he had fallen prey to booze and substance abuse again.
George included a list of seven close friends who are eligible for a payout at Yioda’s discretion, effectively banning his cash from being handed to anyone outside his close-knit circle. Here we reveal the full details of those who stand to benefit and why – alongside with the glaring omissions.GEORGE’S sister Melanie was his hair and make-up artist throughout the height of his fame. The pair became extremely close as they toured the world together.
Melanie continues to live in his homes, and alongside elder sister Yioda she hosted George’s funeral wake at the £20million property in Highgate, North London, where he spent much of his time. She also ensured he was buried alongside their late mother in a nearby private cemetery.
As George became increasingly reclusive, Melanie was one of the few people to see him regularly.
She was a close confidante – and like her sister, she had always struggled with the loss of their mum and relied on their famous brother for support.
The 2013 will insists the share of George’s assets that Melanie receives is equal to that given to her sister.
Yioda Panayiotou, 57, older sister
YIODA and her two siblings became increasingly close following the death of their mother – a devastating event which is said to have impacted George’s emotional wellbeing for the rest of his life.
She gave him the nickname Yog as a youngster and spent long periods living with him at his homes in London and Oxfordshire.
Unmarried Yioda became one of the few people the singer continued to trust as he became ravaged by booze and substance abuse.
She stuck by him after he landed himself an eight-week prison term in 2010 for smashing his car into a branch of Snappy Snaps while under the influence of drugs.
George was close to Yioda until the very end. He named her and his long-time lawyer Christopher Organ as the joint executors and trustees of his will – a role giving Yioda control over almost all of his fortune.
Kyriacos Panayiotou, 80, father
THE Greek Cypriot restaurateur moved to London in the 1950s, where he changed his name to Jack Panos. Stern and uncompromising, George’s dad remained tough on the young star as his fame soared, joking that he could not hold a tune.
Far from driving father and son apart, Jack’s ribbing and traditional work ethic won George’s admiration and the pair remained close, especially after the death of the star’s mum, Lesley Angold, in 1997.
Jack lived in and ran a business from a horseracing stud farm in Hertfordshire purchased by his son.
George’s dad is one of the first beneficiaries accounted for in the legal paperwork, with a clause demanding he “live at the property and conduct his business there from for so long as he wishes”.
