Late screen siren Lauren Bacall left the bulk of her $26.6 million fortune to family, carving out a special $10,000 bequest for her beloved dog, Sophie, and directing her three children to keep her personal papers private, according to her will.
The estate documents, filed in a rush order at Manhattan Surrogate’s Court on Friday because the family plans to auction off her artwork this fall, evenly split her property among children Sam Prideaux Robards, of Manhattan, Stephen Humphrey Bogart, of Naples, Fla., and Leslie Bogart, of Santa Monica, Calif.
“I request that my children respect my wish to keep private certain personal letters, writings, diaries and other papers or memorabilia,” Bacall wrote in the 10-page will written last September.
The honorary-Oscar winner also named all of her children as executors of her estate.
The first item in her will was the $10,000 for son Sam to care for her papillon pooch, Sophie. Bacall and Sophie were often seen by neighbors walking outside her $9 million apartment at The Dakota on Central Park West.
After taking care of the pup, Bacall also left gifts of $250,000 to each of her grandsons, Calvin Robards and Sebastian Robards.
Bacall said she wanted that money to be used for college. They’ll have access to the rest of the cash when they turn 30.
Household staffer Maria Santos received $20,000 while another employee, Isla Hernandez, got $15,000. Hernandez, a Honduran immigrant who worked as the actress’s maid for the past 14 years, was shocked by the news of her $15,000 bequest.
“Oh, my God!” Hernandez exclaimed in an interview with The Post. “It’s wonderful. I never thought she would do something for me.” Hernandez admitted with a chuckle that her longtime boss was both “nice” and “demanding.”
Her estate is comprised of her co-op apartment, royalties, tangibly personal property, cash and the remainder of a trust ex-husband Humphrey Bogart left her.
Bacall, born Betty Joan Perske in The Bronx, died this month from a stroke at the age of 89.
She wanted people to remember her not only for her first famous husband, actor Bogart, but also for her second, lesser known spouse, actor Jason Robards Jr., even though the couple’s marriage ended in divorce.
“My obit is going to be full of Bogart, I’m sure,” she told Vanity Fair in a 2011 interview.
“I’ll never know if that’s true. If that’s the way, that’s the way it is,” she told the magazine.