Fadi Fawaz: The police have NOT accused me over George Michael's death

For a person already struggling the uncooked ache of grief, Fadi Fawaz — the final boyfriend of singer George Michael — has had a tumultuous week.

Fadi, who discovered the 53-year-old star lifeless in his mattress at his Oxfordshire house on Christmas morning, is because of be questioned for the second time by police in a bid to piece collectively the occasions surrounding the final week of George Michael's life.

Detectives now suspect the singer died of a medicine overdose.

Fadi Fawaz  discovered boyfriend George Michael star lifeless in his mattress at his Oxfordshire house on Christmas morning

Fadi, 40, who had a five-year relationship with the star, has been angered by recommendations that he was a 'leech' on George, and in addition by claims that the couple had cut up up 18 months earlier than the singer's dying.

'We had been very a lot in love, very a lot collectively,' he advised the Mail. 'Why would I be there [in Goring-on-Thames] if we weren't collectively? I used to be there the final day of his life. I used to be there.'

Fadi additionally insists that the police, who first questioned him over the dying on Wednesday this week, have been 'wonderful' and 'supportive'.The previous hairdresser, who has been making an attempt to make a profession as a photographer, advised them he spent Christmas Eve with the singer however fell asleep in his automobile that evening and solely found that he was lifeless when he went to wake him the next morning.

When information of the dying was introduced on Christmas Day, George Michael — who had a historical past of drug abuse — was stated by his supervisor to have died of 'coronary heart failure'.

He has suffered a tumultuous week because the 53-year-old's shock dying

Nonetheless, an preliminary submit mortem examination was inconclusive. Now toxicology assessments shall be completed alongside a report for the coroner, aiming to find what was behind his early dying.

Yesterday, it emerged that Fadi shall be questioned once more by police, who shall be aiming to place collectively a full image of the singer's actions and mind-set within the final week of his life.

They've already taken an announcement from a photographer who took footage of Fadi going out and in of George Michael's home with a take-away espresso on December 24, and are anticipated to talk to George's household and pals.

Fadi stated: 'The police have been wonderful. They've been supportive. They've completed what usually occurs when somebody dies. They haven't been accusing me, by no means; they've been very supportive.'

Nonetheless, questions proceed to swirl round Fadi Fawaz — and never simply why he slept in his automobile fairly than within the singer's house on the evening earlier than George's dying. He has additionally been accused of being a former porn actor.

After he and George Michael began relationship in 2011, quite a few web sites urged he had beforehand appeared in a homosexual porn movie, Matchmaker, below the identify Isaac Mazar. It's a declare that Fadi denies.

Yesterday, nonetheless, Felix Kamp, the CEO of the movie firm Cazzo, which made the film, advised the Mail: 'We've got had lots of inquiries and, sure, I can affirm Fadi is Isaac, who starred within the Matchmaker film.'

As well as, some in George's camp really feel Fadi's social media exercise since George's dying has been, at finest, ill-advised.

On New 12 months's Day, a string of posts appeared on Twitter asserting that he and George had been collectively 24/7 and that the singer had repeatedly tried to take his life and had lastly succeeded. However the posts had been shortly taken down, with Fadi claiming his account had been hacked.

Now he seems to have been solid out by George Michael's skilled group, with George's attorneys instructing him to take away a clip of an unreleased tune, This Sort Of Love, which he posted instantly after the dying in tribute to his lover.

He is because of be questioned for the second time by police in a bid to piece collectively the occasions surrounding the final week of George Michael's life

There may be additionally a perception amongst sources near George that Fadi is not going to be a beneficiary of George's will, which is able to divide the singer's £105 million fortune. His sisters and charities — together with Childline and the Terrence Higgins Belief — are stated to be in line to learn.

And hypothesis is rife that Fadi will be unable to proceed residing in George's £four million central London mews home close to Regent's Park for for much longer.

The star purchased the home in 1998. In 2006, he lent it to Geri Halliwell as a spot to steer clear of prying eyes after she had her daughter Bluebell.

Neighbours consider Fadi has been staying there on and off for a number of months, which could counsel that the 2 males had been in an arm's size romance.

So who's Fadi Fawaz? And what's the reality about his relationship with George Michael?

He was raised, alongside together with his three brothers and two sisters, in Lebanon, the place civil struggle was raging from 1975 to 1990. It's an expertise that seems to have marked Fadi deeply.

'My objective is the reality we are inclined to ignore,' he declares darkly on his LinkedIn profile. He provides, with a nihilistic flourish: 'I consider in at the moment; tomorrow isn't assured.'

Hypothesis is rife that Fadi will be unable to proceed residing in George's £4million central London mews home close to Regent's Park for for much longer

And his LinkedIn biography options distressing pictures of individuals in ache, together with one among Fadi himself apparently crying tears of blood. The accompanying commentary concludes: 'Dying is destined when life is created.'

A pal of George Michael's stated: 'Definitely, after I met him [Fadi], he was very, very darkish.

'George was darkish as nicely. Maybe they discovered that in one another, and that's what bonded them.'

Certainly, theirs was an angsty liaison marked by melancholy, dependancy and medical dramas.

Fadi, who left Lebanon for Australia earlier than shifting to London, spent a lot of the romance supporting the singer by numerous crises.

These included two prolonged rehabs, plus stays in hospital for a bout of pneumonia which almost killed him, a tumble from a shifting automobile which additionally almost killed him, and an unexplained incident in 2014 which noticed him eliminated to hospital by ambulance from his London house.

However it was additionally a romance carried out very a lot within the shadow of George's long-term love affair with Kenny Goss. For not less than the primary couple of years of their liaison, George was nonetheless mourning the tip of his romance with the Texan artwork gallery proprietor and businessman.

Whereas Fadi and George had been first pictured collectively leaving London's unique restaurant Nobu in 2009, guests to his Hampstead house in 2011 had been nonetheless being greeted by cushions on the lounge couch which learn 'George and Kenny' and had been assured by the singer that the 2 of them had been nonetheless an merchandise.

There may be additionally a perception amongst sources near George that Fadi is not going to be a beneficiary of George's will, which is able to divide the singer's £105 million fortune

Talking throughout a live performance in August 2011, although, George stated he and Kenny had really cut up up two-and-a-half years beforehand, and that he had been dissembling to cowl the ache. He stated then: 'I like him very a lot. This man has introduced me lots of pleasure and ache.

'My love life has been much more turbulent than I've ever let on, and I'm so unhappy about my relationship with Kenny. I'm sorry for any ache.'

How should his unacknowledged new lover Fadi — who watched from the wings on that tour — have felt?

And some months later, when George fell in poor health with pneumonia, Kenny made a splash to the singer's bedside. Fadi was additionally current.

In November final 12 months, barely a month earlier than his dying, it was reported that George and Kenny had rekindled their friendship and had been considering giving their romance one other attempt.

Nonetheless, George's PR, Connie Filipello, denied the stories and stated that George was nonetheless with Fadi. So simply what's the reality? 

A pal of the singer stated this week: 'George saved lots of secrets and techniques, which is why it's inconceivable to know if he and Fadi had been nonetheless in a romance or not. He saved everybody at nighttime.'

Nonetheless, Fadi's brother Hassan, who lives in Australia, insists they had been collectively, and a former colleague of Fadi's, Joe, advised me this week that they had been 'a tremendous couple' and really a lot collectively.

Fadi was 14 years outdated when he moved together with his household to Queensland, Australia. He studied on the Elite Schooling Institute in Sydney after which appears to have adopted his older brother Daniel — who skilled on the Toni and Man Academy — right into a profession in hairdressing.

Fadi later moved to London, the place he ended up working as a contract celeb stylist, tending the hair of singer Katherine Jenkins and American lady group The Pussycat Dolls for photograph shoots.

He additionally labored on the Daniel Mikhael salon in Marble Arch, London, from 2008, and was nonetheless formally on the employees there as just lately as final 12 months.

A former colleague, Joe, who's a stylist on the salon, stated: 'I've recognized Fadi for eight years. I knew of him when he was in Lebanon. We didn't develop up in the identical village, however we weren't far off. We're superb mates. He stopped working right here a 12 months in the past, however he visits the salon quite a bit as a result of we're pals. He's a pal of mine, so he was nice to work with.

Flowers being left outdoors George Michael's house in Highgate, north London, as Fadi denied sending tweets speculating about the reason for dying

'George Michael used to come back into the salon and I met him as a pal. They had been a tremendous couple.' He added: 'After all it's been troublesome for Fadi, what has occurred with George. As a pair, they had been very robust.'

Fadi's brother Hassan stated: 'We don't have a look at George as [famous] however simply somebody who's a pleasant man and loves my brother and my brother loves him,' he stated.

His brother Daniel stated: 'For me, George was household. I'm devastated.' He added that his ideas and prayers are together with his 'candy brother'.The George Michael camp could be very a lot towards any suggestion of a drug overdose suicide, having stated in an announcement on Christmas Day that the singer died merely of 'coronary heart failure'.

Toxicology is anticipated to settle that argument sooner or later.

Within the meantime, Fadi Fawaz is in an invidious place — branded a 'leech' by unnamed pals of George, below suspicion from some followers who wished he had someway been in a position to save the singer, below assault from the attorneys who remind him that he owns nothing George created, and residing in a house to which he might haven't any declare.

What's subsequent for unlucky Fadi?

Extra reporting: Neil Sears in London and Allan Corridor in Berlin

 

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