Since 2022, Bruce Willis has been struggling with very difficult health conditions so much so that the news of his death, from time to time, takes hold on the web. What will happen to his legacy?
In March 2022, the family of Bruce Willis, one of the most iconic actors in Hollywood history, announced that Bruce would be retiring from acting due to unspecified health issues. At the time, they announced that Bruce Willis had developed a condition called aphasia, which causes difficulty in writing and speaking.
The following year, in February 2023, they confirmed that Bruce Willis’s condition had progressed and that they had a definitive diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia, known as FTD, a degenerative disease that primarily affects communication and behavior, as opposed to memory, like other types of dementia.
Bruce Willis’s wife, Emma Heming Willis, did not immediately understand the seriousness of the situation: "When his speech started to change, it seemed like it was just a reminiscence of the stutter he had as a child, it was just Bruce. I never, ever would have thought that this was a form of dementia for someone so young,” she said.
It would take a few years for doctors to come up with the correct diagnosis: “I say FTD whispers, it doesn’t shout. It’s hard for me to say, ‘This is where Bruce ended up, and this is where his disease started to take over,’” Mrs. Willis added.
Frontotemporal dementia is the most common type of dementia in people under 60. Find out what the Willis family shared about the actor’s health.
How is Bruce Willis doing today?
Bruce Willis’ health is currently “stable” since he was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, his family said in recent updates.
Tallulah Willis, Bruce Willis’ youngest daughter with ex-wife Demi Moore, recently spoke out about some of the more difficult aspects of her father’s condition: "He’s getting stable, which is good and hard in this situation," the 30-year-old said. "There are painful days, but there’s a lot of love."
"He’s really shown me not to take any moment for granted, and I really think we would be best friends," Tallulah Willis continued. "I think he’s very proud of me. You have to be in the moment. You have to be present."
Bruce Willis Net Worth and Estate
Bruce Willis has an estimated net worth of $250 million. Throughout his career, Bruce Willis has consistently been one of the highest-paid actors in Hollywood. Between the late 1980s and his retirement, he earned hundreds of millions of dollars in film salaries alone.
For the film "The Sixth Sense" (1999) he received a fee of 114 million dollars, thanks to an agreement that included a generous percentage of the film’s takings. His initial compensation was 14 million dollars, a figure that is still among the highest ever and will remain so given the slow decline of the film industry in the entertainment market.
Who will be the heirs of this fortune?
His assets of 250 million dollars will go to his family. Specifically, according to his will, revised at the beginning of his illness, he will leave one million dollars each to his daughters Rumer (34 years old), Scout (31 years old) and Tallulah (28 years old), had with Demi Moore. For the rest, most of the money will go to his current wife Emma and their daughters Mabel, 10 years old, and Evelyn, 8 years old.
"Bruce wants to make sure his younger children are financially secure. He believes Rumer, Scout and Tallulah will have everything they need," his current wife Emma said.
Bruce Willis first changed his will in 2009, after marrying Emma, then a few months after their children were born, and then again when he learned he had serious health problems.
Original article published on Money.it Italy 2024-11-18 21:07:47. Original title: Come sta Bruce Willis? La malattia e il rischio di morire, il suo patrimonio e a chi andrà l’eredità
