In one of the videos on his YouTube channel, Jaime Bayly shared with his followers one of the most intimate episodes of his life: the time he was disinherited from the US$1 billion he left when his uncle Bobby, a wealthy mining businessman, died. According to the author of the novel ‘Don’t tell anyone’, he was the only one in the family who did not receive part of that large sum of money.
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Why didn’t Jaime Bayly receive part of the US$1 billion left by his uncle Bobby Letts?
Although initially the relationship between Jaime Bayly and his uncle Bobby Letts was the best, it ended up breaking down to the point where he was disinherited so that he would not receive part of the US$1 billion he left behind as a fortune. According to the journalist, the main reason for the fight was the publication of his book ‘Don’t tell anyone’. In these pages, the former television presenter told of the family problems that he experienced when he was a child, an idea that his relative did not like.
“All my brothers inherited Uncle Bobby’s money except me, but it’s my fault. I earned Uncle Bobby’s disinheritance because we were friends at one time. (…) My big fight was when I published my first novel ‘Don’t tell anyone’ (…) They told Bobby that I had written that novel and that it recreated the family conflicts that had accompanied me since I was a child,” he explained.
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To prevent the novel from coming to light, Uncle Bobby tried to persuade Jaime Bayly not to publish it. This caused the anger of the Peruvian writer, who not only ignored his relative’s request, but, in revenge against him, created a character very similar physically and psychologically to his mother’s brother, and mentioned him in the chapter titled ‘The escape’.
“He sent me a handwritten letter of several pages in which he did not advise me, but almost forced me not to publish it, and that if I published it, it would be a shame for the family. It bothered me so much that I tore it up and I threw it in the trash. I hated it. Weren’t we friends? I hadn’t even read (the novel). I didn’t pay attention to it, I published ‘Don’t tell anyone’ and In revenge against Bobby, in a chapter titled ‘The Escape’ a character very similar to him appears vaguely called Uncle Mickey, only, in the novel, he was bald.“he commented.
This angered his uncle, who not only stopped talking to Jaime, but also made the decision to remove him from his will.
“When ‘Don’t Tell Anyone’ came out, Uncle Bobby no longer loved me and he never loved me again, because not only had I disobeyed him, but in that novel a character appeared that everyone associated with Uncle Bobby, the famous Uncle Mickey,” he added.
