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Bob Dylan’s will on sale for staggering sum

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Bang Showbiz,
Publish Date
Tue, 21 Jan 2025, 12:57pm
A Bob Dylan fan can get a hand-signed amendment to the star's will for $48,000. Photo / Getty Images
A Bob Dylan fan can get a hand-signed amendment to the star's will for $48,000. Photo / Getty Images

Bob Dylan’s will on sale for staggering sum

Author
Bang Showbiz,
Publish Date
Tue, 21 Jan 2025, 12:57pm

Bob Dylan鈥檚 old will is up for sale. 

The 83-year-old singer originally signed the plans for after his death as 鈥淩obert Dylan鈥 and the document is dated August 26, 1976, with the wording showing it is an amendment to a document he originally filed on September 22 the previous year. 

The typed codicil 鈥 which is hand-signed and dated 鈥 is going up for sale through Moments in Time, with the collectors setting the price at US$27,500 ($48,470). 

In the document, Dylan stated he was leaving his brother David Zimmerman US$50,000 ($88,127) and the house he was living in at that time, and also made provisions for any children who outlived him. 

At the time of signing the paperwork, Dylan had children Maria, now 63, Jesse, now 59, Anna, now 57, Samuel, now 56, and Jakob, now 55, with then-wife Sara Lownds. He went on to have daughter Desiree, now 38, with second wife Carolyn Dennis, who he split from in 1992. 

It is unclear at what point the folk legend rewrote his will for this version to be able to change hands now. 

Timothee Chalamet plays Dylan in A Complete Unknown. Photo / Searchlight PicturesTimothee Chalamet plays Dylan in A Complete Unknown. Photo / Searchlight Pictures 

Dylan is currently in the spotlight following the release of his biopic A Complete Unknown, in which he is played by Timothee Chalamet, and director James Mangold recently praised the Lay Lady Lay hitmaker for being 鈥渋ncredibly helpful鈥 during a series of 鈥渓ovely鈥 meetings. 

Mangold told Big Issue magazine: 鈥淲e met in a coffee shop that was closed for Covid and we just sat down and talked for five hours. 

鈥淲e did the same over a series of dates after that. And they were just lovely conversations in which he was anything but guarded. He answered any question I had. 

鈥淚 was a curious artist asking questions, many of which he鈥檇 never been asked before, rather than a biographer setting down something to be put in print. 

鈥淭here鈥檚 a kind of emotional reality that I鈥檝e got to kind of capture 鈥 and he was incredibly helpful with that.鈥 

And when he had any doubts about the project, Dylan put his fears at ease. 

Mangold said: 鈥淗e鈥檚 been nothing but a positive force.鈥 

鈥淭here was a moment when I was writing the script when people were getting nervous that it was veering too much from a simple story of folk versus rock into the personal side of his life. 

鈥淏ob asked to read the script, reacted positively, and gave me the green light to continue, and that includes depictions of misbehaviour. He sees himself with a clear eye.鈥 

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