The alleged long-time secret baby of legendary Queen frontman Freddie Mercury has died. She was 48.
The household of the lady, recognized solely as Bibi, revealed Thursday that she died after a protracted battle with most cancers, the Each day Mail reported.
“(She died) peacefully after a protracted battle with chordoma, a uncommon spinal most cancers, leaving two sons aged 9 and 7,” her husband Thomas advised the outlet.
Bibi, who was anonymously recognized as “B,” was conceived between Mercury and the spouse of the rocker’s buddy in 1976 — through the top of his profession, in accordance with creator Lesley-Ann Jones’ bombshell biography on the Queen rocker, “Love, Freddie.”
“B is now along with her beloved and loving father on this planet of ideas. Her ashes had been scattered to the wind over the Alps,” Thomas mentioned.
Bibi, who labored as a physician and lived in France, had battled the uncommon most cancers most of her life. She was first recognized with the illness at a really younger age earlier than going into remission.
The most cancers returned and it was a “race towards time” to publish the e book and the information with Jones earlier than her loss of life.
The retrospective of her father was launched in September 2025 and supplied a glimpse into “Freddie Mercury’s secret life and love.”
The guarded secret was recognized solely to the late “Bohemian Rhapsody” star’s nearest and dearest –together with his longtime love, Mary Austin, his dad and mom, and his sister — for almost half a century, the Each day Mail beforehand reported.
She reached out to Jones after the creator’s first e book in 2021 and the pair collaborated on the second novel as a result of there have been “nonetheless some issues I ought to know” concerning the singer.
Jones constructed a relationship with Bibi and paid tribute to her after her loss of life.
“I’m devastated by the lack of this lady who turned my shut buddy, who had come to me with a selfless goal: to brush apart all those that have had free rein with Freddie’s story for 32 years, to problem their lies and their rewriting of his life, and to ship the reality,” Jones advised the outlet.
“This information is surprising and deeply upsetting to me, however not stunning. I had recognized it was coming all alongside. It was a race towards time. Towards the chances, we achieved what at one time appeared unattainable, given all that she was up towards. It was the honour of my life to have been chosen by her to share Freddie’s true story,” she mentioned.
Bibi solely revealed her identification as Mercury’s daughter within the e book months earlier than her loss of life, after having took a DNA check to substantiate the singer as her father, who died in 1991.
“For 30 years I needed to construct my life and household with out him and settle for that he wouldn’t be there to share the completely happy moments with us,” Mercury’s daughter wrote. “For 30 years, whereas the remainder of the world was reinterpreting Mercury’s life, his music and all that he had been, I wanted to have my Dad only for me and my household. How might I’ve spoken earlier than?”‘
Jones says she trusted the lady’s story as a result of she was not in search of recognition or fame and hid the information out of concern it might price her her job.
“She has by no means requested for cash. She doesn’t need recognition. Each Freddie and her stepfather left her extraordinarily rich. She was not offered for by Freddie’s will, however by a personal, authorized association, so nobody will discover her talked about there,” Jones mentioned about Bibi’s revelation.
