Melanie Panayiotou was found dead at her home in Hampstead (England). It was one of the two sisters of George Michael, himself who died three years ago, on December 25, 2016.
A new mourning, three years after the death of George Michael, on December 25, 2016. In this year 2019, the sister of the British singer also died on December 25. Melanie Panayiotoyu, then 55, was found lifeless in her home in Hampstead, England.
“We can confirm Melanie’s tragic and sudden death,” the family said in a statement from their lawyer, relayed by the newspaper on Guardian. “We are simply asking that the privacy of the family be respected during this very sad time. According to the British tabloid, it was George Michael’s second sister, Yioda, who discovered the body of Melanie Panayiotoyu. She then contacted the emergency services, who arrived at the scene around 7:30 p.m. The authorities explain, however, that the death of the fiftieth birthday is not suspicious.
A very close sibling
In fact, Yioda and Melanie had inherited a large part of their brother’s fortune when he died in 2016. The English newspaper explains that the siblings were particularly close. Melanie Panayiotou regularly followed George Michael on tour, and was busy styling his brother’s hair.
Three years earlier, their brother George Michael, whose real name is Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou, had been found lifeless at his home in Goring, west of the British capital, by his companion Fadi Fawaz. Medical expert opinions had concluded that the singer with more than 100 million discs sold had died from dilated cardiomyopathy with myocarditis, a weakening of the heart muscle, and fatty liver, which results in an accumulation of fat in liver cells.
The death of the singer of “Freedom” and “Wake Me Up Before you Go Go” had aroused enormous emotion and a shower of tributes in the United Kingdom and around the world.
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