Icon of the golden age of Hollywood, sex symbol for decades, Raquel Welch, who died at the age of 82 on the 15th, leaves a millionaire inheritance to her two children, Damon and Tahnee. Her fortune amounts to 40 million dollars, according to figures Celebrity Net Worth. The actress, in addition to treasuring a long career in the cinema, signed large advertising contracts. She was the face of MAC, a cosmetic company, and HearU Wear, beauty and hair. The interpreter also emptied herself into her memories, which bear the demanding and feminist title of Beyond the neckline.
Raquel Welch rose to fame in the 1960s by starring in films like A million years ago, Fantastic Voyague or a small piece of paper He Globetrotter with Elvis Presley. His first starring work came with A Swingin’ Summer, in 1965, and became a bombshell sex-symbol.
He performed with the greatest, such as Frank Sinatra, Marcelo Mastroianni, Burt Reynolds… He won a Golden Globe in 1974 for The Three Musketeers, an adaptation of Dumas’s book. His performance in the aforementioned A million years agolike the intrepid Loana, fell in love with the whole world and was baptized as ‘the Body’.
He leaves four broken marriages, those he formed with James Welch, Patrick Curtis, Andre Weinfeld and Richard Palmer; and two sons (Damon and Tahnee), who will now inherit his fortune.
A lawsuit by the actress against MGM for breach of contract in 1982 marked a turning point in her career. She won the trial and pocketed $10 million, according to Style Caster. However, she paid a very high hidden toll. As she herself would relate later, papers stopped arriving. She was relegated to supporting appearances and television jobs.
released his memoirs Beyond the neckline. A protest song to the role of women at work, her effort to make her way as a working single mother and her fight against ageism when she decided to make a banner of her age to break with the prejudices of the time.