George Michael's boyfriend Fadi Fawaz says he took photos of singer's body while waiting for emergency services
George Michael's boyfriend Fadi Fawaz has claimed he snapped pictures of the singer's "cold and blue" body after discovering him dead at his mansion in 2016.
Speaking in a now-deleted video that he uploaded on his Facebook page, Fawaz said he "took pictures of him [Michael] when he was dead" before sharing concerns that there were people "out to get him" over those images.
Michael died on Christmas Day in 2016 at his mansion in Goring-on-Thames, South Oxfordshire, when he just 53, and his body was eventually found by a horrified Fawaz, whose emotional call to emergency services was leaked a year later.
In the call, Fawaz said he tried to resuscitate George for an hour before calling for professional help and that his boyfriend was "cold and blue."
"I’ve been trying to wake him up but it was not possible. He’s gone. He’s blue," he cried, before adding, "It’s George Michael. I think he’s dead. He’s dead." "I’ve been trying to wake him up for the last hour but it was not possible," he continued. "He’s gone. He’s blue. He’s stiff He’s gone."
Fawaz had claimed at the time that the singer's death was a suicide but an inquest later ruled that he had died of natural causes and had dilated cardiomyopathy with myocarditis and fatty liver.
Michael is believed to have left most of his $117 million fortune, including the Oxfordshire mansion where he lived with Fawaz, to his sisters Melanie and Yioda.
Fawaz was left out of the will altogether and has since made several disparaging comments against his former boyfriend, going so far as to claim the singer was HIV positive, lousy in bed, and that he "never wrote his own music."
"He never wrote his own music," he wrote on Twitter. "He paid other people to make the music for him and pretended it was him. Not so talented after all."
He went on to add that sex with him was extremely boring and claimed that Michael was HIV positive before following up on his comments with a selfie to prove that he himself had written the tweets.
Fawaz has also branded his relationship with Michael a "big mistake" and called him a "f***** up icon" and a "crackhead" in a bizarre Facebook rant.
His behavior has been increasingly erratic since Michael's death, with reports suggesting he has become a "vampire recluse" who only leaves his home at night. A post on his Facebook page even claimed he had become homeless.
"George Michael the ikon (sic) 3 years later and his lawyers still not done anything to sort me out so in last few days I have been sleeping in the street in Covent Garden instead of being in my home," the post read.
"They took the key by a trick the (sic) came out with it and now 2 months later still not heard anything I was staying in hotel and 2 days a go (sic) was stopped. What a cheap ikon this George f*****g Michael is."
Fawaz had continued to live in Michael's Oxfordshire for three years after the singer's death before he moved out, though his niece Soumaya insisted he was not homeless and that his account had just been compromised.