Oscar Wilde died bankrupt in Paris; his friend Robbie Ross bought back the rights and gave the income to Wilde's sons

After Wilde's conviction he was declared bankrupt, and the rights to his texts were sold off^†. He died in Paris with Robbie Ross at his side. Ross became his literary executor. He had to buy back the rights to Wilde's works that had been sold in the bankruptcy, and he fought pirated editions published under Wilde's name. He published De Profundis, the letter Wilde wrote in prison, in 1905^†. Wilde's royalties paid off his creditors and the bankruptcy was annulled in 1906^†. Ross gave Wilde's sons, Cyril and Vyvyan Holland, the rights to their father's works and the money earned while he was executor. Lord Alfred Douglas, Wilde's former lover, pursued Ross for years and tried to have him arrested and tried for homosexual conduct. Ross died in 1918. He had asked to be buried with Wilde. On the 50th anniversary of Wilde's death, in 1950, an urn with Ross's ashes was placed in Wilde's tomb at Père Lachaise.