Frehley explained that his passport renewal had been delayed due to complications with the Internal Revenue Service.
“Well, there’s a good chance I can make it to Europe in late summer if I get my passport renewed,” he said. “I’ve been having issues with renewing my passport because I have some problems with the IRS [Internal Revenue Service], and it’s not really the passport bureau but the IRS.”
He further detailed the extent of his tax debt.
“Since I owe the IRS a couple of hundred grand, and they just instituted a new law that if you owe more than $50,000, they won’t renew your passport,” Frehley explained. This law directly impacted his travel plans.
Frehley’s net worth at the time of his death was $1 million, as per Celebrity Net Worth. This figure stood in stark contrast to the wealth accumulated by some of his former bandmates.
When Ace Frehley played what would be his final concert last month, he took the stage with a rhythm guitar player who had been by his side longer than any other in his solo bands: Nashville shredder Jeremy Asbrock.
Together, they tore through Kiss classics like “Deuce” and “Cold Gin,” Frehley solo staples like “New York Groove,” and Frehley’s Comet’s enduring battle cry “Rock Soldiers.”
“Ace isn’t just an influence of mine. This is the person that laid the path before me when I was four years old. I’ve never wanted to do anything else, and he was the guy that brought it all to me,” Asbrock tells
Rolling Stone.
“Some nights onstage, it was extremely surreal, especially when he was having a really great show, and he’d get in that stance and start doing his thing. It was like, ‘Man, there it is. That’s it right there, and it’s standing right beside me.’”
