Former James Bond Sean Connery has one son- 45-year-old Jason Connery. According to Sean’s ex-wife, the curmudgeonly actor has made it clear to Jason that he will never get any of his money -a fortune estimated at $a hundred and seventy million USD.
According to his former spouse, Diane Cilento, the previous James Bond actor informed his son Jason that he would by no means obtain a penny of his £85million fortune.
She said Connery was once determined that Jason will have to pursue a profession and earn his personal living, reasonably than sponging off his father.
But Miss Cilento, who was once married to Connery for 11 years before their bitter divorce in 1973, stated Connery’s determination to lower Jason off financially intended they'd a difficult dating.
She claims that at one degree Jason, who now works as an actor and movie director, threatened to exchange his identify after Connery accused him of taking advantage of his father’s reputation.
Australian-born Miss Cilento instructed the Sunday Times: ‘Sean mentioned, “You best were given this (performing) activity as a result of your name’s Connery.” ‘Jason mentioned, “Well, I’ll change it to one thing else.” Sean stated, “If you do that I’ll f****** kill you.”
‘Jason loves him however Sean has a problem about relationships, as everybody spherical him knows. Jason is a very devoted son – when Sean is ill he rushes there. They play golf in combination.’
Connery, 77, is due next month to publish his long-awaited autobiography, Being A Scot.
It details his upbringing within the commercial end of Edinburgh by his parents, a cleaner and truck driver respectively.
There was once no bathroom and the circle of relatives had to use a communal rest room outside.
Aged 14 he earned 21 shillings (£1.05) per week as a barrow pusher ahead of working as a lorry driving force, labourer, coffin polisher and artist’s model.
Before landing the part of James Bond in the 1962 film Dr No, Connery spent a while as a milkman.
Jason, 45, is Connery’s best kid and evolved an hobby in acting while a boarder at Gordonstoun.
He was once authorized to the Bristol Old Vic drama faculty and the Perth Repertory Company, where, in addition to acting he worked as an assistant level manager to earn his Equity card.
According to friends, Jason, who is very best recognized for the name role within the 1985 tv collection Robin of Sherwood, used to be so deficient within the early Nineteen Eighties that he trusted handouts from other actors to live to tell the tale.
Jason, who has lately finished directing his second film, an motion mystery which stars Cuba Gooding Jnr and Ray Winstone, refused to touch upon his mom’s revelations.
Connery, who lives within the Bahamas, has additionally declined to expose if his son will inherit any of his fortune.
I have blended emotions on this. On the one hand, it’s Sean Connery’s money and he earned it. It’s his right to make a selection what happens to it after he’s long past. And after seeing such a lot of superstar spawns strolling around like their God’s reward to the world, I feel it’s commendable for a big famous person to make it transparent to his teens that there aren't any free rides in lifestyles. But it feels like Jason isn’t in search of special remedy anyway. And why give him a difficult time about his closing name being Connery? If casting other people want to rent him on account of that, how is that Jason’s fault? What I have a problem with is these folks who had a hard childhood who one way or the other cling it against their own youngsters that they’ve had a very simple existence. Isn’t that what we want for our kids- why we paintings so laborious? And while it’s true that Jason never had to push wheelbarrows or deliver milk, he did have to develop up with a meanie for a dad. I’d say he merits one thing for that.
Jason Connery is proven at a photocall for the movie Private Moments at Apart Gallery in London on 12/13/04. Credit: Vince Maher/WENN. Sean Connery is shown on the Edinburgh Film Festival premiere of The Edge of Love on 6/18/08. Credit: Solarpix / PR Photos
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