George Michael Age, Affairs, Wife, Biography, Death Cause & More

Bio
Real Name	Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou
Nickname	YOG (Yours Only George), Knobby, TLTI
Profession	Singer, songwriter Producer
Physical Stats & More
Height	in centimeters- 183 cm in meters- 1.83 m in Feet Inches- 6’ 0”
Weight	in Kilograms- 82 kg in Pounds- 181 lbs
Body Measurements	- Chest: 42 Inches - Waist: 35 Inches - Biceps: 12 Inches
Eye Colour	Brown
Hair Colour	Blonde
Personal Life
Date of Birth	25 June 1963
Date of Death	25 December 2016 (aged 53) Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England
Death Cause	Heart Failure
Age (as in 2016)	53 Years
Birth Place	East Finchley, London, England
Zodiac sign/Sun sign	Cancer
Signature
Nationality	British
Hometown	Goring, Oxfordshire, England, United Knigdom
School	Kingsbury High School, Kingsbury, London Bushey Meads School, Bushey, Hertfordshire, England
College	N/A
Educational Qualifications	High School
Debut	Singing Debut: Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do?)(1982)
Family	Father- Kyriacos Panayiotou (aka Jack Panos)(Restaurateur) Mother- Lesley Angold Panayiotou (Dancer) Brother- N/A Sister- Melanie Panayiotou, Yioda Panayiotou Katriona Slatayiotou (Half-sister)
Religion	Christian
Ethnicity	Greek
Address	Goring, Oxfordshire, London The Grove, Highgate, London
Hobbies	Travelling
Controversies	• In early 1998, he was arrested at a public bathroom in Beverly Hills, California for his lewd conduct in front of an undercover police officer. • During the Iraq War period in 2004, he released the single "Shoot The Dog" as a political satire which showed cartoon versions of then US President George Bush in bed with the then UK Prime Minister Tony Blair. The song received strong criticism and he was forced to leave USA. • In 2007, he was arrested for falling asleep at the wheel of a car in the middle of London traffic. As a result, he temporarily lost his license, in 2010, he was in a drug-related car accident again and had to serve an 8-month prison term. • In 2010, he was arrested after he crashed his car into a branch of Snappy Snaps in Hampstead, North London.
Favourite Things
Favourite Food	Salads, Chocolate
Favourite Musician	Queen (Rock band), Tom Jones, The Beatles
Favourite Colour	Brown, Orange
Favourite Perfume	Le Male by Jean Paul Gaultier
Girls, Affairs and More
Sexual Orientation	Bi-Sexual
Marital Status	Unmarried
Affairs/Girlfriends/Partner	Pat Fernandez (Dancer, 1983-84) Brooke Shields (American Actress, 1985) Kathy Jeung (1988) Anselmo Feleppa (Brazilian Fashion Designer, 1991-93) Kenneth Goss (American Relative, 1996-2009) Fadi Fawaz (Lebanese, 2009-16)
Children	Son- N/A Daughter- N/A
Style Quotient
Car Collection	Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano
Money Factor
Net Worth	$175 million

Some Lesser Known Facts About George Michael

• Did George Michael smoke?: Yes

• Did George Michael drink alcohol?: Yes

• George was born to a Greek father and a Jewish mother.

• Very few people know that his first band was ‘The Executive’ (1979-80), which was formed in the summer of 1979, who played their first show on 5 November 1979, at a misty Bonfire night, in a Methodist church hall in Bushey, England. 

• After his schooling, he formed the band Wham!, with his friend Andrew Ridgeley and gave their 1st U.S. hit with “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go.”

• In 1986, the band split up after which he went solo and gave a hit “I Want Your Sex” with 7 million copies sold.

• In 1988, he won a Grammy Award for the song “I Knew You Were Waiting (for Me),” a duet with Aretha Franklin, and his album ‘Faith’ won the Grammy for album of the year.

• In 1998, he announced that he was gay after he was arrested for lewd conduct in a public bathroom in Beverly Hills, California.

• In 2000, he bought John Lennon’s Steinway Model Z upright piano for £1.67m, but returned it to Liverpool’s Beatles Story museum. 

• In 2008, he released his song “December Song” as a free download with a hope that people would donate money to charity.

• He was partially colour-blind and used to wear contact lenses.

• He had 11 UK #1 and sold more than 100 million albums throughout his career span.

• His last album, Symphonica, was released in 2014.

• He died on Christmas 2016, 32 years after he wrote the song ‘Last Christmas’.