{"id":416152,"date":"2026-01-16T05:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T05:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/416152\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T05:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T05:00:14","slug":"shes-now-with-her-father-freddie-mercurys-secret-daughter-dies-aged-48-as-tragic-cause-of-death-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/416152\/","title":{"rendered":"‘She’s now with her father’: Freddie Mercury\u2019s \u2018secret daughter\u2019 dies aged 48 as tragic cause of death revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

A woman claiming to be Freddie Mercury\u2019s daughter has died aged 48 after a lengthy battle with a rare spinal cancer.<\/p>\n

The woman, known as Bibi, claimed she was conceived when the Queen frontman had an affair with a friend\u2019s wife in 1976.<\/p>\n

Her claims came to light when she was the subject of a 2025 book titled Love, Freddie, written by journalist Lesley-Ann Jones.<\/p>\n

Bibi\u2019s husband, Thomas, announced her death on Thursday, saying she died peacefully after a long battle with chordoma, a slow-growing bone cancer that begins in the spine.<\/p>\n

The former doctor lived in France and leaves behind two young sons, aged nine and seven.<\/p>\n

\u201cB is now with her beloved and loving father in the world of thoughts. Her ashes were scattered to the wind over the Alps,\u201d he told the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n

Bibi claimed she had a close relationship with Mercury, and that Queen songs Bijou and Don\u2019t Try So Hard were written about her.<\/p>\n

\u201cI 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,\u201d Jones told the publication.<\/p>\n

\"Freddie<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end of her life, it was all that mattered to her. She was very ill throughout the four years that we worked together. But she was on a mission. She put herself and her own needs last.\u201d<\/p>\n

Love, Freddie is based on the journals Bibi claims Mercury gave to her before he died in 1991.<\/p>\n

\u201cFreddie Mercury was and is my father,\u201d Bibi said in a handwritten letter ahead of the book\u2019s publication.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a very close and loving relationship from the moment I was born and throughout the final 15 years of his life. He adored me and was devoted to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

When the book was released in September 2025, those who were close to Mercury cast doubt on Bibi\u2019s claims.<\/p>\n

\"Freddie<\/p>\n

His close friend and former fianc\u00e9e<\/a>, Mary Austin, said she was sceptical because Mercury had never mentioned fathering a child.<\/p>\n

\u201cFreddie had a glorious openness, and I cannot imagine he would have wanted to, or been able to, keep such a joyful event a secret, either from me or other people closest to him,\u201d Ms Austin, who inherited the majority of Mercury\u2019s estate, told The Sunday Times.<\/p>\n

Brian May\u2019s wife, Anita Dobson, also dismissed the claims as \u201cfake news\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt seems inconceivable that he would have a child with someone we don\u2019t know about,\u201d she told The Mirror.<\/p>\n

Bibi responded at the time, saying she was \u201cdevastated\u201d by those questioning the validity of her claims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman claiming to be Freddie Mercury\u2019s daughter has died aged 48 after a lengthy battle with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134,45950,219580,219579,87350],"class_list":["post-416152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-freddie-mercury","tag-freddie-mercury-daughter","tag-love-freddie","tag-queen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}