SHARON OSBOURNE - SHARON OSBOURNE: 'MY FATHER LEFT ME WITH 30-YEAR DEBTS'

Rock matriarch SHARON OSBOURNE is furious her estranged father has left her with staggering 30-year debts - after secretly putting all of his failing businesses in her name.

Sharon's father DON now has Alzheimer's disease and lives in a nursing home near her Los Angeles mansion, but she refuses to visit him because his criminal past mentally scarred her - and his tax bills are taking a huge chunk out of her dwindling fortune.

She complains, "In fact I'm still paying his tax bills from 30 years ago. I was his 'beard' - he didn't exist on paper.

"Now he's actually broke and they come after me for tax. But if I had stayed in touch with my father, I would have ended up in prison, because everything he did was fraudulent."