Ginger Baker's eldest daughter accuses the rocker's fourth wife (42 years his junior) of isolating him from his family on his deathbed in a rift that now runs so deep his children don't know even where his ashes are
By Maureen Paton For The Mail On Sunday
Published: 22:56 GMT, 8 February 2020
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7982395/Ginger-Bakers-eldest-daughter-accuses-rockers-fourth-wife-isolating-family.html
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"... Ginger eventually left her for an 18-year-old lover, Sarah, a friend of Nettie?s. They eloped to Tuscany after the collapse of a recording studio business he had set up in Lagos, Nigeria, leaving Liz and the children to be evicted from Camelot because he could no longer pay the mortgage.
"Ginger and Sarah divorced after a year and his third marriage to Karen Loucks was also short-lived. By the late 1990s, much of his fortune had been blown on drugs, women and disastrous business ventures.
He then moved to Tulbagh, on South Africa?s Western Cape, to build a polo ranch, where he was fleeced by a beautiful young accountant, triggering a two-year legal battle which left him broke.
It was during this period that Ginger met Kudzai on a dating site. They married in Cape Town in 2010 when he was 70 and she was 28 in a ceremony witnessed by only two people and none of his family.
?The family weren?t invited to the wedding,? says Nettie. ?We didn?t know anything about it. We just knew it was all going wrong for him with this court case and then suddenly he left South Africa, owing ?10,000 out there. He and Kudzai arrived with no money on my Aunty Pat?s [Ginger?s sister?s] doorstep in December 2011.?
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The executors of Ginger?s will ? who happen to be Kudzai?s immigration lawyers and who are organising her application for British citizenship ? are not revealing further details until probate is granted.
Pictured: Kudzai Baker (bottom right) with her late husband Ginger Baker (centre), his daughter Netty (right) and grand-daughter Zara (left)
By Maureen Paton For The Mail On Sunday
Published: 22:56 GMT, 8 February 2020
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7982395/Ginger-Bakers-eldest-daughter-accuses-rockers-fourth-wife-isolating-family.html
[...]
"... Ginger eventually left her for an 18-year-old lover, Sarah, a friend of Nettie?s. They eloped to Tuscany after the collapse of a recording studio business he had set up in Lagos, Nigeria, leaving Liz and the children to be evicted from Camelot because he could no longer pay the mortgage.
"Ginger and Sarah divorced after a year and his third marriage to Karen Loucks was also short-lived. By the late 1990s, much of his fortune had been blown on drugs, women and disastrous business ventures.
He then moved to Tulbagh, on South Africa?s Western Cape, to build a polo ranch, where he was fleeced by a beautiful young accountant, triggering a two-year legal battle which left him broke.
It was during this period that Ginger met Kudzai on a dating site. They married in Cape Town in 2010 when he was 70 and she was 28 in a ceremony witnessed by only two people and none of his family.
?The family weren?t invited to the wedding,? says Nettie. ?We didn?t know anything about it. We just knew it was all going wrong for him with this court case and then suddenly he left South Africa, owing ?10,000 out there. He and Kudzai arrived with no money on my Aunty Pat?s [Ginger?s sister?s] doorstep in December 2011.?
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The executors of Ginger?s will ? who happen to be Kudzai?s immigration lawyers and who are organising her application for British citizenship ? are not revealing further details until probate is granted.
Pictured: Kudzai Baker (bottom right) with her late husband Ginger Baker (centre), his daughter Netty (right) and grand-daughter Zara (left)
