Sunday People

CARER IS CHASED FOR CASH AFTER HIS DEATH

- By Patrick Hill

FREDDIE Starr’s live-in carer has revealed he left her to pick up his debts, including £5,000 bills.

Nelly Georgieva, 46, who found him dead in May at his Costa del Sol home, aged 76, is being chased for debts going back years.

“Freddie never paid anything,” she said. “Now I need to pay a lot of money but I don’t have much. It is for water bills and community fees, including for the shared swimming pool at the complex.

“It was the same with electricit­y. Freddie didn’t pay and I had to pay almost £2,500.”

The comic, who earned millions in the 1970s and ’80s, repeatedly ignored his bills.

Dad-of-six Freddie asked Nelly to marry him before a heart attack killed him.

The former nurse, who worked for him for four years, said she found out about his debts when two neighbours began demanding she pay the bills.

Bulgarianb­orn Nelly is now desperate to visit Freddie’s grave, beside his mum Hilda’s in Liverpool.

She said: “I want to go to see him. I miss him every day.”

The pair had been under threat of being made homeless from his onebed townhouse.

That followed Freddie losing a defamation case against Karin Ward, who said he put his hand up her skirt in 1974 when she was 15. A High Court judge ruled she was telling the truth and her lawyers secured a charging order on Freddie’s £170,000 Costa flat, giving them the chance to recoup costs from the 2015 case.

They moved a step closer to getting his flat sold at auction with land registry office certificat­ion, but he died before they could reclaim it.

He had fled to Spain after losing the libel case and used an oxygen mask in his final days, having survived a quadruple heart bypass operation in 2010.

Freddie earned £2million a year at his peak and owned yachts, a helicopter and a Grand National-winning horse. But he also battled a 20-year Valium addiction.

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