Freud and McAdam had four children, but David says Freud was rarely home, creeping away to paint at night, while gallivanting around with countless other women. At one point he had three families on the go. When he was two, in , McAdam, finally tired of her rogue husband, moved her four children out of the family home in Paddington into a council flat in south London. He and his siblings never saw Freud again as children.
Growing up poor in affluent Richmond, David always felt like an outsider. He and his brother, he says, grew pretty wild. She allowed us to come and go as we pleased. His mother rarely spoke of Freud, though his art books and exhibition posters were scattered around the flat.
David never told his friends on the estate who his father was, and for years wanted nothing to do with the man who had caused all this pain and grief. David is himself a father of four children from three relationships and is not happy to have recreated the cycle of lost contact — having not seen his own daughter Violet, 10, since she was a baby. His two eldest, Fern, 21, and Kipp, 18, live close by and he has a six-year-old daughter, Emily, from another relationship.
She never returned to him, but instead converted to Catholicism and lived out the rest of her life in obscurity. She burned the many letters she had received from her two famous lovers, so that their contents would always remain private. Lucian, however, took longer to shake off her influence. The couple split four years later, having had two daughters together. It was not the first time his sexual conquests would span several generations of the same family.
As a young man, he had an affair with the painter Janetta Wooley. Freud seemed to require constant sexual activity in order to work. Sometimes, he fulfilled the classic cliche and seduced his models, otherwise he recruited women from elsewhere to satisfy his appetites. Raymond Jones, one of his models, remembers of his time sitting for him, that their work was periodically interrupted by the arrival of a woman.
She and Lucien would slip into the bathroom briefly for noisy sex, while he waited. Before long, the woman would leave and the artist would return, refreshed, having bathed and sometimes buck naked, to his seat before the easel. He went with his feelings, took what he wanted. That was his strength. You could also physically see it in his actions — eating with his fingers, tearing birds to pieces on his plate.
He painted with relentless and often unflattering directness, even when his subjects were famous models. He became friends with Kate Moss after she posed for him while eight months pregnant. He was drawn to her reckless, non-conformist nature and they used to go to nightclubs together. They made an odd pairing, the world-famous model and the grizzled old buzzard artist, still louche but now in his 80s.
But as in his personal life it was the way he related to his children through his art that attracted the most gossip and controversy. He persuaded six of his daughters and one of his sons to pose naked for him. Annie Freud, who was 14 at the time, remembers it as being, at the very least, an unsettling experience.
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On that basis, any trust imposed on the residuary estate can only have been a half secret trust. He added that, because of the different requirements for creation of a valid half secret trust in comparison to a fully secret trust, Paul Freud would then wish to explore whether any valid half secret trust was created or whether there was an intestacy of the residue - which would mean he would be entitled to a share of it.
But, if Ms Rawstron and Ms Pearce were right, his only claim for provision from the estate arose under the Inheritance Provision for Family and Dependants Act , under which a relative can make a claim if an individual has not made proper provision for them in a will.
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