Carroll Shelby's children are
Carroll Shelby's children are very devoted to their father, he received a kidney transplant in 1996 and his eldest son Michael was the donor. Anyone who knows the family is aware that all three of his children are quite wealthy and successful from family business holdings on their mother's side of the family (Shelby's first wife Jeanne Fields), so this is all about love for their father and is not at all about the money. Depending on who you talk to, his estranged wife Cleo was his 6th or 7th marriage. All of Shelby's children are native born lifelong Texans, it was his wish to return to Texas to spend his final days, and the children want nothing more than to honor his request to be laid to rest in his native Lone Star State.