Freddie Mercury’s Secret Daughter Bibi Dead at Age 48 After Years-Long Cancer Battle

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.”

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.”