Beatrice’s drug addict ex died after mate loaned him $60,000
THE playboy ex of Princess Beatrice had conned a best friend out of his life savings months before his drug overdose death.
Paolo Liuzzo had asked his mate Arshad Sadikeen to lend him around $60,000 so he could take a new girlfriend on a luxury Caribbean cruise, according to the Daily Mail.
However, Liuzzo failed to pay him back, forcing Arshad to launch a lawsuit.
The 41-year-old American socialite, who was Princess Beatrice’s ‘first love’, died in a Miami hotel. He dated the daughter of Prince Andrew for a year in 2005, when she was 17 and he was 21.
The romance ended when he broke bail conditions while under investigation over a fight that led to the death of student Jonathan Duchatellier, 19.
Friends of the princess said the art industry consultant was Beatrice’s ‘first real boyfriend’ and she was heartbroken when they split. In recent years, he had lived a ‘very fast lifestyle’ and had an addiction to drugs said to include cocaine, ketamine and Oxycontin.
‘Paolo was not doing great on a personal level,’ an insider told The Sun. ‘He loved to party and gamble. He began using a lot of pharmaceutical drugs but that later led to cocaine and harder drugs. He was always borrowing money to pay loans. It became a vicious cycle. We all feared it would catch up with him eventually.’ Police said his death was being treated as an overdose but an inquiry remained ‘open and ongoing’.
Beatrice, 35, now a mum-ofone and married to property tycoon Edoardo Mozzi, found out about his death soon after her mother Sarah Ferguson’s skin cancer diagnosis.