[Li Zifan/Comprehensive Report]Charlotte Church, a British bel canto singer who once sang in front of the Pope and was known as the “natural beauty”, had 25 million pounds (approximately NT$1 billion) when she was 11 years old. However, at the age of 38, she admitted in a recent interview: “I am not even a millionaire anymore.” She recently had to sell her 1.5 million pound (approximately NT$60 million) mansion and exchange it for a cheaper one. of semi-detached houses.
In 1997, Charlotte sang Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Pie Jesu” on “This Morning”, which made her famous all over the world. She later sold 10 million records. She has also performed in front of big figures such as former US President Clinton, Pope John Paul II, Queen Elizabeth II and Charles III. She has accumulated a net worth of 25 million pounds at a young age.
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But she recently revealed that growing up in the spotlight as a teenager was not a pleasant experience. “After I made money, I once said to my father at the age of 14: ‘I’m not sure I want to go into the entertainment industry. I’m very unhappy. “But he said: “Keep going, we won’t always have these opportunities.” When I was 16 or 17 years old, I really reached the point of “I don’t know if I can still do this damn industry.”
She was not able to use the money she earned until she was 18, and she recalled that she was not generous with money. She once treated her girlfriends to Ibiza, rented a private villa and hired a driver who was on call around the clock. When she was in a relationship with Wales star Gavin Henson when she was 20, she bought a love nest, installed a bar at home so the two could drink to their fill, and bought an £800,000 yacht.
She and Henson were engaged for a time and had two children, but they broke up in 2010. She later spent her own money to buy a five-bedroom house for her child’s father in 2013 so that he could raise their children nearby. In 2014, her net worth had dropped to 11 million pounds (approximately NT$440 million). She said in the documentary: “I have to work all the time, not because I want to, but because I have to. The tax collectors are watching. Looking at my account and wondering where I hid the money.”
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She later married musician Jonathan Powell. In 2021, she converted a house she bought into a rental vacation villa, but encountered many administrative process problems during the renovation. She also recently replaced her original mansion with a semi-detached house, the most common type in the UK, to save money.
