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  1. Jun 9, 2024 · RICHARD LUBBOCK was a teetotal antiques trader and opera-loving father whose only brush with the law had been a speeding fine. But when the successful businessman swapped trading trinkets for...

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  2. Dec 29, 2016 · George Michael, who died this week, was one among hundreds of inveterate Soho clubbers, except that in his own mind he was a global superstar.

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    As well as owning a £2 million celebrity retreat in California. George has a millionaire’s hideaway called Whispering Ash in London. Its attractions include white carpets and white sofas. Once a week, his mother comes round to clean the place up.

    He has often been told to get lost while carol-singing in disguise in Hertfordshire with Andrew Ridgeley.

    Earlier this year, George sacked the Inspirational Gospel Choir of London for refusing to back his song ‘Father Figure’, which they said was ‘too explicit’. The ‘raunchy’ line in question was, ‘For just one moment, to be bold and naked by our side’.

    The import of the revelations contained in his official autobiography, Bare (dubbed Bore by the music industry), can be gauged by: ‘ I was a great masturbator.’

    Never afraid of seeming pretentious, he once wrote ‘Explore monogamy’ in lipstick on girlfriend Kathy Yeung’s back.

    In 1989 the Sun reputedly paid him £100,000 damages after falsely alleging that he had drunkenly gatecrashed Andrew Lloyd Webber’s party. He gave the money to charity.

    George’s generosity is legendary: on his current tour he gave the entire 200-strong crew a free leather jacket each, a gesture costing thousands.

    Date of birth: 25/06/63.
    Marital status: single.
    Educational qualifications: O-levels and Art and English at A-level.
    Previous experience: building site worker; disc jockey in restaurant; cinema usher. Also worked in father’s restaurant (sacked) and for British Home Stores (sacked).
    Serious girlfriends: Pat Fernandez, Kathy Yeung (right).
    Alleged girlfriends: Fawn Hall and Brooke Shield.
    Once a year (at least): has a number one record.
    Once a week: gets drunk.
    Once a day: earns 66,000.
    More than once every 1 5 minutes: thinks about sex.
  3. Born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou in North London on 25 June 1963, the son of a Greek Cypriot father and English mother, Michael formed his first band The Executive with school friends Andrew Ridgeley and David Austin amongst others.

  4. George Michael was born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou (Greek: Γεώργιος Κυριάκος Παναγιώτου) on 25 June 1963, in East Finchley. [17] [18] His father, Kyriacos "Jack" Panayiotou, [19] was a Greek Cypriot restaurateur who emigrated from Patriki, Cyprus, to England in the 1950s. [20]

  5. Dec 27, 2016 · George Michael (Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou), singer and songwriter, born June 25th, 1963; died December 25th, 2016. Tue Dec 27 2016 - 17:01. George Michael, who has died aged 53 of heart...

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  7. Dec 26, 2016 · Tributes have poured in from across the world for singer George Michael, who has died at his home at the age of 53.