In 2025, a woman calling herself “B” claimed to be the secret daughter of Queen’s legendary singer Freddie Mercury. Now, she has sadly passed away at age 48.
The family of the woman who claimed to be Freddie Mercury’s ‘secret daughter ‘has announced that she has passed away at age 48 from a long battle with a rare cancer.
The Daily Mail wrote last year that the Queen singer called her “Bibi” and wrote several songs about her. Last year, after more than 30 years of silence, “B” revealed her existence in the book Love Freddie, written by Lesley-Ann Jones.
The Queen songs Bijou (Jewel) and Don’t Try So Hard were claimed to have been written about her.
Freddie Mercury was said to have had a close relationship with his ‘secret’ daughter up until his death in 1991. Speaking with the Daily Mail, Bibi’s widower, Thomas, confirmed her passing.
Freddie Mercury’s ‘secret daughter’ dies at 48
She passed away “peacefully” after a battle with chordoma, a rare spinal cancer. The 48-year-old also had two children. aged nine and seven.
“B is now with her beloved and loving father in the world of thoughts. Her ashes were scattered to the wind over the Alps.”
The author Lesley-Ann Jones stated that Freddie Mercury had secretly fathered Bibi during a 1976 affair. Last year, she claimed that the woman had DNA evidence. Jones said the Queen frontman secretly fathered ‘Bibi’ during an affair in 1976 – and said last year that she has DNA evidence to back it up.
At the time the book was released, Bibi said she had no interest in revealing that she was the Queen singer’s daughter as she “had to learn to live with the attacks against him.”
“I cried and mourned my Dad, while fans all around the world mourned Freddie. When you are 15 years old, it’s not easy,” she said. “I had to become an adult without him, and live all the structuring moments and events without his support.”
“I had to build my life and family without him”
Bibi continued. “For 30 years I had to build my life and family without him and accept that he wouldn’t be there to share the happy moments with us. For 30 years, while the rest of the world was reinterpreting Mercury’s life, his music and all that he had been, I needed to have my Dad just for me and my family. How could I have spoken before?”
Freddie Mercury’s close friend and former girlfriend, Mary Austin, told The Times it would be “astonishing” if B was his daughter. After Bibi’s passing, author Lesley-Ann shared a statement, saying she was “devastated.”
“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,” Jones said.”
“At the end of her life, it was all that mattered to her. She was very ill throughout the 4 years that we worked together. But she was on a mission. She put herself and her own needs last.”
Rest in peace.
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