Perry Bamonte, the guitarist for The Cure, bequeathed a substantial seven-figure inheritance to his wife following his passing at the age of 65.

The musician succumbed to a brief illness on Christmas Eve of last year.

He entrusted his assets and personal effects to his wife, Donna Bamonte, whom he married in 2009.

As the executor of his will, Donna inherited a significant sum of £1.4 million.

The couple resided together in Crediton, near Exeter, Devon, and did not have any children.

While the total value of his estate amounted to £1.9 million, approximately half a million was subtracted from this figure.

His grant of probate document reads: ‘The last will and testament of Perry Archangelo Bamonte was proved and registered before the High Court of Justice.

‘The application has stated that the gross value of the estate in the United Kingdom amounts to £1,983,419 and the net value amounts to £1,444,123.’ 

Perry Bamonte, the longtime guitarist and keyboardist for iconic British band The Cure, died last December (pictured in 2023)

Perry – born on September 3, 1960 – wrote his will on May 22, 2024.

It reads: ‘I give all my personal chattels not otherwise specifically gifted by my will or any codicil free of inheritance tax to Donna absolutely.

‘My trustees shall hold by residuary estate and the income thereof upon trust for Donna absolutely.’

Perry – who also played the keyboard – performed over 400 shows for The Cure over 14 years.

After his music career he was a keen fly-fisherman and also drawing.

Perry and Donna rehabilitated and retrained racehorses and ran a ‘retirement home’ for them.

Police investigated his passing after receiving a report from a family member who had been ‘alarmed at something he was told’. 

The band’s official website confirmed the sad news that the musician passed away over Christmas 2025 following a short illness (Pictured L-R in 1992: Perry, Simon Gallup and Robert Smith)

But Donna believed the investigation was ‘bulls***’ and asserted that he ‘died of terminal bowel cancer, nothing more’. 

She revealed he was diagnosed with the deadly disease in 2020 and was given the all clear a year later.

However, she explained it returned in 2024 and was diagnosed as terminal prior to Mr Bamonte’s death in December.

‘His doctors can confirm he was first diagnosed in 2020 and had the all-clear in 2021, but there was a recurrence in 2024,’ she told The Sun.

‘I have had no contact with the police since his death. This is all complete and utter nonsense.’

The Cure’s official website confirmed the news that the musician passed away over Christmas following a short illness.

In a statement, they said: ‘It is with enormous sadness that we confirm the death of our great friend and bandmate Perry Bamonte who passed away after a short illness at home over Christmas.

‘Quiet, intense, intuitive, constant and hugely creative, “Teddy” was a warm hearted and vital part of the cure story. “Looking after the band” from 1984 through 1989, he became a full time member of The Cure in 1990, playing guitar, six string bass and keyboard on the Wish, Wild Mood Swings, Bloodflowers, Acoustic Hits and The Cure albums, as well as performing more than 400 shows over 14 years.

‘He rejoined The Cure in 2022, playing another 90 shows, some of the best in the band’s history, culminating with the show of a lost world concert in London 1st November 2024.’ 

Perry was one of five siblings and grew up in Basildon, Essex.