Roy Black: His son Torsten Höllerich has no more money

With hits like “All in White” or “It is nice to be in the world”, the singer Roy Black became a pop star in the 1960s and 1970s. Black, who was called Gerhard Höllerich with a bourgeois name, was considered one of the most successful in the industry in Germany, is said to have sold around 25 million records. When he died in 1991 at the age of only 48, rumors were rumored by the amount of his inheritance. Now his son Torsten Höllerich spoke about the assets of his famous father for the first time.

“I got a total of around 400,000 marks at the time,” said Höllerich. And explains: “The legacy of my father was divided by three. One third each received my uncle Walter, my father’s brother, my half -sister Nathalie and me.” Accordingly, Roy Black left his family about 1.2 million marks. But Höllerich has long since assumed the money.

“Most of the most I have invested in a restaurant in Ibiza that I had with my uncle Wieland, my mother’s brother, for eight years,” said the 48-year-old. Then he sold the restaurant, emigrated to Colombia and invested in real estate, which he no longer has. “I was never the person who thinks far into the future who saves or conservatively creates,” says Höllerich. After the separation from his ex-wife, he was homeless in the meantime, now lives again for rent in Santa Marta, in northern Colombia.

There he struggles with occasional jobs. So he occasionally interprets and also runs a YouTube channel over his father. Around 2000 euros would also flow to him annually to him if Roy Black songs are played.

Nevertheless, there would be months in which he did not know how to pay the rent. However, he does not regret the pronounced money: “For me, happiness does not mean the volume in the account,” he told the “picture.”