Umm Kulthum was an Egyptian singer, songwriter, and film actress. She was given the honorific title “Kawkab el-charq”. She is considered a national icon in her native Egypt; she has been dubbed “The Voice of Egypt”, the “Lady of Arabic Song” and “Egypt’s Fourth Pyramid”.
Umm Kulthum was very much active from the 1920s to the 1970s and died on 3 February 1975 at the age of 76, from kidney failure before she could finish and sing her two songs ”Awkaty btehlaw ma’aak wa hyaty btekmal b’redak” and another song that she asked for the poet Saleh Goudet to write for her to sing to commemorate the victory of Egypt in the October War.
Who inherited Umm Kulthum money and estate?
Umm Kulthum did not have any children who were hers biologically or have been adopted. She was in a legal battle with her husband Ahmad before they split up, and he passed away in 1961.
Since she had no children or spouses and had no will written, it’s assumed that her relatives had taken over her money and estates.
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