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Gay sex games DJ Kevin Greening leaves £500,000 to lover... but NOTHING to his mother
Last updated at 14:16pm on 22.07.08
Tragic death: Kevin Greening, pictured at the 2001 Sony Radio Awards nominations party, died after a drugs binge
A former BBC Radio 1 breakfast show DJ who died during a gay bondage session wrote his mother out of his will, it has emerged.
Instead the DJ left his entire estate to 'life partner' Andrew Lowe, even though he had been seeing other men for at least two years.
Mr Lowe had apparently split from 44-year-old Mr Greening two years before the star's death last December - but they continued to live together and the DJ never changed his 1991 will to reflect the end of the relationship.
Greening's will instructed that his mother Mary would only receive a payout if she had outlived Mr Lowe at the time of the DJ's death. Even then she would only be entitled to half the money, with the rest going to AIDS charity the Terrence Higgins Trust.
Writing in the will Mr Greening, who left £515,575, said: 'After the payment of debts, funeral and testimony expenses and any inheritance tax which may be payable I give my whole estate to the said Andrew Lowe absolutely.'
Mr Greening presented Radio 1's flagship breakfast show with Zoe Ball and later moved to Radio Five Life and Smooth FM.
The Cambridge University graduate was found dead by police at a flat in south London, the night before his 45th birthday.
He died of a drug induced heart attack following a gay bondage session in which he binged on cocaine, ecstasy and GHB.
Tragic DJ Kevin Greening toasts his radio partner Zoe Ball on her first day at Radio 1
Mr Greening had been in a black leather sling attached to scaffolding in the bedroom of the Wandsworth flat of his boyfriend Sean Griffin on the day he died, his inquest heard last month.
Mr Griffin told the inquest he had become concerned about Mr Greening when he noticed that his face was pale and the area around his mouth was grey.
At the time, the inquest heard, Mr Greening was wearing a rubber suit and still had cling film and gaffer tape around his trunk.
Coroner Paul Knapman recorded a verdict of misadventure, adding: 'He was found dead having indulged in unorthodox sexual behaviour involving restraint equipment and illegal drugs."
Mr Greening's mother - who still lives in the family's hometown of Bristol - has not commented on the will.
But a family friend said: 'She always knew Kevin was determined that Andy should have his money as he was always seen as "his rock".'
Reader views (2)
@Gary, wycombe - As a straight man, I am truly sickened by you and everyone like you. Being gay is not a fetish, far less a "deviancy" as you so ineloquently put it. Abnormal satisfaction is a phrase which I am a bit unclear on. Do you mean to say that love is an abnormal emotion? Or perhaps you were referring to sex? If you are a loveless virgin then I retract my statement - I am no longer sickened, I am saddened. If not, then I am not only sickened but very much embarrassed to share the classification of "straight" with you.
As for the "all-to-often tragic consequences" his problem was not that he was gay. It was not even that he was into bondage. His problem was that he didn't realize that his partner was a tool, or that taking substances to alter your body chemistry before doing something like that is a very bad idea.
- Exosus, USA
A sad illustration of a gay lifestyle, and its all to often tragic consequences of ever increasing sexual deviancy in search of kinky and abnormal satisfaction.
- Gary, wycombe
