Monty Python’s Eric Idle rants he has to work after John Cleese fired manager – despite selling £5m mansion last year
MONTY Python’s Eric Idle sold a mansion for more than £5million last year — but now moans that he’s hard up.
He complains that fans assume he is loaded, even though he still has to work at 80.
Eric blamed John Cleese for replacing their manager with fellow Python Terry Gilliam’s daughter Holly, igniting a row with the Fawlty Towers star.
Eric composed classic song Always Look on the Bright Side of Life for comedy film The Life of Brian.
And despite his whining, the Spamalot musical writer landed a packet last year by selling his home in the upmarket Hollywood Hills.
He and wife Tania Kosevich, 74, put the 1930s property on the market in February and got their asking price of $6.5million — £5.14million — a month later.
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They paid $1.5million — £1.19million — in 1995.
He told the Wall Street Journal they were selling it because it was “way too big”.
During a social media outburst last week, dad-of-two Eric said he was still working because Cleese, 84, “peremptorily and foolishly” fired Monty Python manager Jim Beach.
He ranted: “We own everything we ever made in Python and I never dreamed that at this age the income streams would tail off so disastrously.”
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Cleese replied to say Holly was “efficient, clear-minded, hard-working and pleasant”.
Idle’s representative was asked to comment.