Tina Turner died on Wednesday, aged 83, of natural causes at her home in Switzerland, a new post-mortem report has revealed. At first the statement sent by her representatives said that the queen of rock’n’roll had died as a result of “a long unspecified illness”. During the last few years, his health had deteriorated greatly. In 2013, three weeks after her wedding to Erwin Bach, she suffered two strokes. 3 years later he was diagnosed with intestinal cancer. He had long had very high blood pressure and this damaged his kidneys. In 2017 her husband Erwin Bach gave one.
One of the last people to see her alive was her friend Cher, who went to visit her in Switzerland: “she was very happy”, despite being “very sick”, she explained in an interview. “I went to visit her because I thought she needed to dedicate this time to our friendship, so she knows we haven’t forgotten her. “So with a group of friends we took turns to be with her and that made her happy”, she admits, adding that when Turner arrived he warned that he wouldn’t be able to spend much time with her”, explained Cher, and he added: “Five hours later, we were laughing like crazy… She was having fun despite the fact that she was very sick and didn’t want people to know.”
The friendship between the two singers began during the seventies, when they sang as a duo. Turner was married to Ike, with whom she lived through continuous episodes of abuse. In the interview, Cher recalled that when she got divorced in 1978 she felt “very free”. She was so excited. You could see her calm and relaxed. Their new life was like a big breath of fresh air”, says Cher, who acknowledges that during that time “their friendship grew and they became inseparable”.
The date and place of Tina Turner’s funeral is currently unknown. His spokesman revealed in a statement that “a private funeral will be held for close friends and family. Please, we ask for respect for the family’s privacy at this difficult time,” the short text said.
With her will still unknown, the main beneficiaries are expected to be her widower Erwi Bach and the two sons she adopted from her first husband, Ike Turner: Ike Jr. and Michael, with whom she had no relationship . But she had two biological children: Craig, from her relationship with saxophonist Raymond Hill when Tina was 18, and Ronnie, with Ike. The first committed suicide in July 2018 at the age of 59, and the second died in December due to colon cancer, at the age of 62.
From 1994 until her death, Tina Turner lived in a house on Lake Zurich valued at $76 million with German music producer Erwin Bach, 17 years younger than the singer. They met in 1985 at a party for her record label in London and married in 2013. The singer leaves behind an estimated fortune of $250 million, although some sources put that figure considerably higher. His fortune recently increased when he sold his entire music catalog to the record label BMG for $50 million. In addition, he owns numerous properties in Switzerland that the couple acquired from 2012, when they were granted Swiss nationality.
