George Michael was a British singer, songwriter and record producer.
George Michael was born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou on June 25, 1963 in East Finchley, London to Kyriacos Panayiotou and Lesley Angold Panayiotou.
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George Michael rose to fame as a member of the music duo Wham! and later embarked on a solo career. George Michael formed Wham! with Andrew Ridgeley in 1981. Wham’s! first two albums, Fantastic (1983) and Make It Big (1984), reached number one on the UK Albums Chart and the US Billboard 200.
George Michael’s first solo single, “Careless Whisper”, reached number one in over 20 countries, including the UK and US.
A 1991 duet with Elton John, “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me”, was also a transatlantic number one.
George Michael went on to release two more multimillion-selling albums, Older (1996) and Patience (2004).
George Michael is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, with sales of over 120 million records worldwide.
George Michael died on 25th December, 2016.
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What Happened To Kenny Goss?
Kenny Goss was with George Michael for thirteen years, and was praised as “the love of his life”.
Kenny Goss is an art dealer and businessman who was born in Bromwood, Texas, in 1958.
George Michael and Kenny Goss met at a Fred Segal restaurant in Los Angeles in 1988.
Kenny Goss and George Michael got together in 1996, but only went public two years later, when George Michael came out as gay after being arrested for “performing a lewd act” in a California toilet.
When Kenny Goss found out that he wasn’t mentioned in George Michael’s will, Goss filed a suit against Michael’s estate requesting monthly payments of $21,000 under the Inheritance (Provisions for Family and Dependents) Act 1975.
The court battle between George Michael’s estate and Kenny Goss dragged on for years.
In May 2021, Kenny Goss and George Michael’s estate settled out of court, but the details of the agreement were confidential.
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