Tragedy for chocolate heir as wife dies at 60

WITH two marriages behind him, it proved third time magically right for chocolate heir Cosmo Fry when, after living for 15 years in unmarried bliss with fashion editor Lulu Anderson, he took the marital plunge once more.

But now, just a decade later, the couple’s enchanted life together — spent partly in Somerset and partly in Provence at the house bought by Cosmo’s father, inventor and heir to the Fry’s chocolate fortune, Jeremy Fry — has ended in heartbreaking manner, with Lulu succumbing to cancer aged 60.

Her close friend, author Catherine Fairweather, broke the news, assuring friends that Lulu’s spirit remained unbroken, as she ‘squeezed the last drop out of every moment [and] exuded vitality even while she was dying, battling the cancer and defying all the doctors’ predictions.’ Eton-educated Cosmo, 65, established the Big Sleep hotels with Lulu (both pictured), numbering Hollywood star John Malkovich among their investors. Guests at their wedding party included actor Richard E. Grant and designer Jasper Conran. Cosmo’s first wedding, to Lady Cosima Somerset, was attended by 500 guests, including her cousins, Zac and Jemima Goldsmith. The pair parted six weeks later. He subsequently married Amanda Aspinall, daughter of late gambling tycoon John. They had a daughter, March, and son, Orson — sometime boyfriend of model Alexa Chung — before divorcing. Aspinall, who went on to marry U.S. pop star Daryl Hall, of Hall & Oates, in 2009, was found dead in 2019 aged 61. With Lulu, Cosmo had one more son, Jude, now romantically linked to Ella Clapton, daughter of Eric Clapton — guitar legend and writer, of course, of Tears In Heaven.