Jim Hutton Freddie Mercury And Mary Austin

Mercury had bequeathed hutton 500 000 about 1 million today but he had left garden lodge to his friend mary austin who gave hutton three months to clear out.

Jim hutton freddie mercury and mary austin. Austin recalled how she would sit every day next to the bed for hours whether he was awake or not. He was just 42 years old. He was cared for in his final months by a small group of his inner circle jim hutton and mary austin were both there every day. Mercury in london with former partner mary austin both in 1985.

Jim hutton went back home to ireland where he used the money mercury had left him to build a home of his own. Inside freddie mercury s first derogatory meeting with boyfriend jim hutton freddie s live in pa peter freestone spent the last 13 years of the iconic singer s life with him at his london mansion. Jim hutton himself had been diagnosed with hiv for the first time in 1990. Photos by dave hogan getty images.

In 1969 when he was 24 years old mercury met a 19 year old shop assistant named mary austin. Both mary austin and jim hutton were by freddie mercury s side when he contracted aids in 1987. Freddie mercury backstage with boyfriend jim hutton. At the time there was no cure for the illness and both austin and hutton nursed him as best as they could.

Freddie mercury had two great loves over his lifetime. Freddie mercury left ex girlfriend mary austin his mansion and entire fortune even though he had been living with his partner jim hutton for many years. According to the recent interview with peter freestone who was freddie s personal assistant for the last 12 years of his life freddie was thinking. The queen star explained why in his own.

The woman he almost married and the man he privately loved.