MICHAEL MYSTERY
Just WHAT happened to George?
The police have NOT accused me, insists George Michael’s lover Fadi Fawaz as officers continue to investigate the singer’s mysterious death.
Police will interview Fawaz for a second time this week over the pop star’s death at his Oxfordshire home.
But this is just to piece together events and the heartbroken boyfriend says they have been “amazing”.
Detectives now suspect that the 53-year-old star died of a drugs overdose and are making associated inquiries. A post mortem examination proved inconclusive but further toxicology tests are being done.
Adding to the mystery, a leading picture agency has been ordered to hand over all shots taken near the singer’s home before Christmas to help identify who came and went, the
Sun has reported. Fawaz, 40, who had a five-year relationship with Michael, has been angered by suggestions that he was a “leech” on Michael, and by claims the couple had split up.
‘We were very much in love, very much together,’ he said. “I was there the last day of his life. I was there.”
The former hairdresser told police he spent Christmas Eve with the singer but fell asleep in his car that night and only discovered that he was dead when he went to wake him the following morning.
When the death was announced on Christmas Day, George Michael — who had a history of drug abuse — was said by his manager to have died of “heart failure”.
However, questions continue to swirl around Fawaz. After he and George Michael started dating in 2011, numerous websites suggested he had previously appeared in a gay porn film, Matchmaker, under the name Isaac Mazar, which Fawaz denies.
Yesterday, however, Felix Kamp, the CEO of the film company Cazzo, which made the movie, told the Mail: “I can confirm Fadi is Isaac, who starred in the Matchmaker movie.”
Some in Michael’s camp feel Fadi’s social media activity since the star’s death has been, at best, ill-advised.
On New Year’s Day, a string of posts appeared on Twitter asserting that he and Michael were together 24/7 and that the singer had repeatedly tried to take his life and had finally succeeded. But the posts were quickly taken down, with Fadi claiming his account had been hacked.
There is also a belief that Fawaz will not be a beneficiary of Michael’s £105 million ($185m) fortune. His sisters and charities are said to benefit.
And speculation is rife that Fadi will not be able to continue living in George’s £4m central London mews house near Regent’s Park.
Fawaz, who left Lebanon for Australia before moving to London, spent much of the romance supporting the singer through various crises.
These included two lengthy rehabs, plus stays in hospital for a bout of pneumonia which nearly killed him, a tumble from a moving car which also nearly killed him, and an unexplained incident in 2014 which saw him removed to hospital by ambulance from his London home.