Lee Wei Ling, the daughter of Singapore’s first Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, has died at the age of 69.
Lee died at home on Wednesday, according to a Facebook post by her brother Lee Hsien Yang. She was also the sister of former Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
Her death brings to focus a long-running family feud over a house left by late premier Lee Kuan Yew. The saga spilled into the public and political realm as the siblings argued over how 38 Oxley Road, at the fringe of the Orchard Road shopping district, should be handled after their father died in 2015.
Lee was diagnosed with progressive supranuclear palsy, a brain disease. It “starts with a Parkinson’s-like illness that slows physical movements” and eventually results in death, she wrote in a Facebook post in 2020. She was a neurologist and senior adviser at the city-state’s National Neuroscience Institute.
“Being a neurologist, she had in fact diagnosed herself before the doctors formally did,” senior minister and former premier Lee Hsien Loong said in a social media post on Wednesday morning. “She took it with her usual fortitude and stoicism, and posted about it as one of those things in life to be borne and endured.”
