Freddie Mercury’s ‘secret’ daughter Bibi has died after being diagnosed with a rare spinal cancer, aged 48.
Her death was confirmed by her widower Thomas who said in a statement that she died ‘peacefully after a long battle with chordoma, a rare spinal cancer, leaving two sons aged nine and seven’.
The statement to Daily Mail continued: ‘B is now with her beloved and loving father in the world of thoughts. Her ashes were scattered to the wind over the Alps.’
Author Lesley-Ann Jones, who revealed Bibi’s existence in her book Love, Freddie.
She said in response to the news: ‘I am devastated by the loss of this woman who became my close friend, who had come to me with a selfless aim: to brush aside all those who have had free rein with Freddie’s story for 32 years, to challenge their lies and their rewriting of his life, and to deliver the truth.’
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