TRAGIC FIND
Partner: I awoke & George was dead in bed
GEORGE MICHAEL’S partner described his heartbreak Monday at discovering the pop star had died beside him as they slept in bed.
“ITs a xmas i will never forget finding your partner dead peacefully in bed first thing in the morning.. I will never stop missing you xx,” Fadi Fawaz tweeted.
Fawaz, a celebrity hair stylist, has been linked to Michael for years — but details of their relationship had been kept private.
The revelation about the circumstances of Michael’s death at his home in Goring, England, came as it emerged that the singer had used his fortune to “heal the pain” of others — without seeking fame for his charitable giving.
Numerous accounts of Michael’s generosity emerged online as his millions of fans continued grieving his sudden death at age 53.
“A woman on ‘Deal Or No Deal’ told us she needed £15k ($18,000) for IVF treatment. George Michael secretly phoned the next day and gave her the £15k,” British game show host Richard Osman tweeted.
Questions still lingered Monday about the exact cause of death.
Michael’s manager said the pop icon had died of heart failure. A photo of Michael snapped in September showed the singer had gained a large amount of weight.
Police said they were treating the death as “unexplained, but not suspicious.”
At the same time, others also came forward with stories about Michael’s giving ways.
British journalist Esther Rantzen, who founded the children’s charity Childline, told the Press Association that Michael donated millions to the organization and insisted on keeping it quiet.
“For years now he has been the most extraordinarily generous philanthropist,” British journalist Esther Rantzen said.
Michael also supported the Terrence Higgins Trust for many years after losing his partner Anselmo Feleppa to HIV, a member of the organization revealed.
He also made smaller gestures that didn’t depend on his millions.
“George Michael worked anonymously at a homeless shelter I was volunteering at. I’ve never told anyone, he asked we didn’t. That’s who he was,” Twitter user Emilyne Mondo wrote.
Journalist Sali Hughes tweeted, “I wrote in a piece ages ago about a celeb I’d worked with tipping a barmaid £5k because she was a student nurse in debt. Was George Michael.”
The Grammy-winning pop star donated all royalties from his Wham! group’s single “Last Christmas/Everything She Wants” to Ethiopian famine relief.
Earnings from “Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me,” which he recorded in a duet with Elton John, went to AIDS hospice London Lighthouse and the Rainbow Trust children’s charity.