Overview
- Her husband said she died peacefully after a long battle with chordoma, a rare spinal cancer, and that her ashes were scattered over the Alps; she leaves two sons aged nine and seven.
- Her claim entered the public record in 2025 through Lesley-Ann Jones’s biography Love, Freddie after four years of collaboration.
- Jones says she has private DNA verification and access to 17 handwritten journals allegedly given to the woman by Mercury in 1991, though none of this material has been released publicly.
- Mary Austin and other figures close to Mercury have voiced skepticism, and no independent proof has been produced to confirm the paternity claim.
- Known publicly as Bibi, she kept her identity private while working as a doctor, lived in France, and took a final family trip to South America, including Machu Picchu, before her last treatment; the family is considering releasing photographs.