Queen legend Freddie Mercury’s daughter, Bibi, died at age 48 following a battle with spinal cancer.
Daily Mail revealed the name of Mercury’s daughter on Thursday, January 15, while breaking the news of her death. Bibi’s husband told the publication that she died “peacefully after a long battle with chordoma, a rare spinal cancer.”
Bibi is survived by her widower, Thomas, along with two sons, aged 9 and 7 years old.
“B is now with her beloved and loving father in the world of thoughts,” Thomas’ statement to the Daily Mail continued. “Her ashes were scattered to the wind over the Alps.”
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Bibi’s existence was revealed in author Lesley-Ann Jones’ 2025 book Love, Freddie: Freddie Mercury’s Secret Life and Love. She was only referred to as “B” at the time.
“I am devastated by the loss of this woman who became my close friend, who had come to me with a selfless aim: to brush aside all those who have had free rein with Freddie’s story for 32 years, to challenge their lies and their rewriting of his life, and to deliver the truth,” Jones told the Daily Mail in a statement on Thursday. “At the end of her life, it was all that mattered to her.”
Jones revealed that Bibi was “very ill” while they worked together over the past four years. The women connected in 2021 after Bibi read Jones’ book Love of My Life: The Life and Loves of Freddie Mercury. Bibi’s cancer had come back at that point.
“But she was on a mission,” Jones added. “She put herself and her own needs last.”
The author also offered more insight into Bibi’s cancer battle.
“Her cancer reared originally when she was very young,” Jones claimed. “It’s the real reason why the family relocated quite frequently, so that they could access the best treatment at the time for chordoma: a rare form of spinal cancer that was always going to kill her.”
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Jones called the news of Bibi’s death “shocking and deeply unsettling.” However, unsurprising.
“I had known it was coming all along. It was a race against time. Against the odds, we achieved what at one time seemed impossible, given all that she was up against,” she wrote. “It was the honor of my life to have been chosen by her to share Freddie’s true story.”
Bibi never wanted to go public with her identity, but released one public statement before Jones’ book was released last year.
“I didn’t want to share my Dad with the whole world,” Bibi shared in August 2025. “After his death, I had to learn to live with the attacks against him, the misrepresentations of him, and with the feeling that my Dad now belonged to everyone.”
Mercury died in 1991 at age 45 from bronchial pneumonia resulting from AIDS.
“For 30 years I had to build my life and family without him and accept that he wouldn’t be there to share the happy moments with us,” Bibi’s statement continued. “For 30 years, while the rest of the world was reinterpreting Mercury’s life, his music and all that he had been, I needed to have my Dad just for me and my family.”
