The £40m Freddie Mercury prize: Queen frontman's ex-fiancée is set for a huge windfall from Bohemian Rhapsody film

she lost her chin

Can people always talking about others looks start posting pics of themselves? Let’s see what you look like.

It’s easy to claim to be hot behind a computer

What will Jim Hutton get?

Why should Jim get anything? He was only there for 7 years. Mary 21. She's significant in a way Jim never was.

^ Straight woman married to/in love with gay man.

Jim Hutton is also dead

I am a man. Just one that knows Freddie put Mary above all besides his family, and he made that clear himself while living and before death. The band knows this too.

Jim was his companion and nothing more. Freddie still would spend his Holidays with Mary, not Jim.

^ Straight man married to/in love with gay man.

I know R6. I just like to remind people that while Mary was no where to be seen, Jim Hutton was taking are of Freddie while he was dying.

LOL Mary was there too. Numerous people have spoken about Mary being by his side while he was sick lmao

I wish Barbara Valentin was around to talk - she's the one who knew ALL the shit

R7 Freddie spent all his holidays with Jim as long as they were together. Also Jim was taking care of him till the very end, even changing Freddie's clothes the moment he died.

He even spent his final Christmas with Mary and her baby

And Jim, Phoebe, Joe and other people R13.

I think he loved Mary and Jim equally (in different ways, obviously!). Maybe he left her more money because he had known her for longer.

He considered Mary his soul-mate. He considered Jim his companion.

Not the same level.

Did he actually love Jim or was he just a fuck buddy, someone he could give AIDS to?

Freddie never ever expressed "love" of Jim, something he did for Mary up until before he died.

Jim was a companion, someone he liked spending time and fucking but nothing more.

If Jim made him choose between Mary and himself, he would choose Mary.

I hope someone gives you AIDS! R18

Poor Jim Hutton. I really cannot stand Mary.

I love Mary

How did Jim Hutton and Mary Austin get along? Mary got nearly everything. Hutton got £500,000, which for the early 90s was a decent sum if invested wisely. I wonder why Freddie didn't give him more?

I've read that after Freddie died, Austin kicked Hutton out of Freddie's home, Garden Lodge, which she had a right to since she now owned the place. I wonder why? Dish if anyone has the scoop.

I've never seen her photos before. She had a Debbie Harry thing going on when she was younger. And now that she's older she looks like Debbie if Debbie never took care of herself.

r23 Obviously he put Mary on a pedestal and jim was just someone who he kept around so he could fuck and wouldn't be alone. She belongs in the Faghag HOF.

(R19) "(...) he would choose Mary"....euh.....and Freddy Mercury was gay !??? Houston, I think we have a problem....

Homophobia been berry, berry, good to me!

She's still living there? Bitch got her reward and is holding on tight to it

I thought Freddie Mercury was gay. Who's this Mary chick?

OK, I went out there and found some stuff on my own regarding Mary Austin and Jim Hutton. According to Hutton, Freddie left Mary Garden Lodge on the condition that Jim Hutton got to stay there. Hutton said that out of nowhere, Mary began to snub him immediately after Freddie died. I got the impression they got on just fine prior to that, or at least there was no outwardly discernible animosity. The first thing Mary did was say she didn't want Jim in the first car at the funeral. Then she went against Freddie's wishes and had Jim evicted from Garden Lodge. Sounds like it must have been just a verbal request from Freddie because if it had been written in his will, Mary couldn't have evicted him. Hutton, who was also HIV positive, eventually moved back to his native Ireland.

I've seen interviews of Hutton and read print interviews he gave. He never seemed bitter or angry about only getting £500,000 while Mary got a huge fortune and Garden Lodge. He was definitely pissed that Mary didn't follow Freddie's alleged wishes about Hutton staying on at Garden Lodge, but even from that he seemed to have moved on. He died when he was 60 years old after a long battle with cancer.

R29 did you watch the movie? Anyone that knows about Mercury knows about Mary, especially after the movie.

Mary was his fiancée of 6 years and then his soul-mate and best friend until he died.

R30... sources???

R32, a lot of different interviews and articles I've read over the years. Google Jim Hutton and Freddie Mercury and you'll find a treasure trove. I can't link all those various sources over the years here.

Ive read plenty and Hutton is the only one to claim that Freddie only offered Mary the mansion if Jim got to stay, no one else has claimed that including Mary or Freddies written will. It sounds like Hutton is either just saying that or Freddie verbally told Hutton that and was bullshitting him, cause many have said the money Freddie gave to him was to get his own place...

Freddie also never gave Mary a choice either as he left the mansion to her in his Will, written. If he wanted Jim there so bad it would be in the will.

If they did ever have sex, I'll bet she was the top.

Yep if Freddie did say that he needed it to be written down because Mary ain't having the love of her life's fuck buddy staying in her precious Garden Lodge.

If Freddie really wanted Jim to stay there he could have EASILY had that added to his will. He didn't cause he had no intention of Jim staying there. He just didn't want Jim to have worries, but that mansion was for Mary and her only.

He even made a quote about how the mansion is Marys cause if he weren't gay she would be his wife or something to that degree.

We always win legally. Deal with it poofs.

FM and Jim wore rings, so shut up with that fb bullshit.

I heard Freddie didn't think Jim would live very long.

r39 People keep saying that but where's the link to where FM ever said that about Jim?

Freddie and Jim wore rings? Like friendship rings? Who gives a fuck, you can find quotes of his where he sill called Mary his soulmate before he died... you can't do the same for Jim

It doesn't seem entirely right this woman benefits so much, but whatever not my decision. Hope the family makes something out of this random and ridiculous wealth.

Friendship rings? Fuck off.

What did freddies family get from his will?

Freddie allegedly referred to Jim as his husband. It's not like he could have actually married him to prove his seriousness. It's pretty ugly to tear this relationship down to lift Mary up. She was apparently Freddie's bestest friend for two decades though and it seems like he felt guilty that she couldn't be his wife.

r45 I'm sure internalized homophobia was involved somehow. His gayness kept him from Mary or some bullshit.

Agree with your post, R45.

He loved Mary more than Jim. Period.

Ooh tell us more, Ghost of Freddie Mercury. We've got the hot scoop here!

Freddie Mercury was no faggot! And I'm just the dame to prove it!

“All my lovers asked me why they couldn’t replace Mary, but it’s simply impossible,” Mercury said of Austin. “The only friend I’ve got is Mary, and I don’t want anybody else. To me, she was my common-law wife. To me, it was a marriage.”

You all wanna believe she was nothing but his friend. He loved her as more.

A self loathing Brit who was closeted till the day he died, denying he had AIDS.

Here is the Biography of Mary Austin on Biography.com

And yet bi guys constantly wonder why out gay men don't want to get involved with them.

Several people mentioned the wife issue. You're being a creepy shipper r 51. A creepy het shipper of a gay celebrity on a gay board. It's not a good look.

Doesn't this prove that Freddie was full blown gay and not "bi" like he's portrayed by some? If he was sexually attracted to women he would have been with mary.

What wife issue? Quoting Mercury himself is an issue? Its only an issue because it doesn't fit with your false narrative.

I believe he was, R56. I watched an interview with Mary Austin in which she said she was extremely happy for him when he embraced his identity because he was really himself for the first time.

According to Biography.com, Mary also felt he was gay, not bi R56

Austin believed Mercury was gay, not bisexual

At home things were not fairing as well. Six years into their relationship marriage was no longer being discussed and Austin began to think something was wrong. She decided to discuss the matter with Mercury. “I told him, ‘Something is going on and I just feel like a noose around your neck. I think it’s time for me to go,’” she recalled to OK! Mercury insisted nothing was wrong. Austin recalls the relationship cooling after that, the same time the band was experiencing incredible success.

Returning home later and later most nights, Austin thought Mercury was having an affair with another woman. But in 1976, already an international star, he decided to discuss his evolving sexual feelings with her. “I’ll never forget that moment,” Austin told the Daily Mail. “Being a bit naive, it had taken me a while to realize the truth. Afterwards he felt good about having finally told me he was bisexual. Although I do remember saying to him at the time, ‘No Freddie, I don’t think you are bisexual. I think you are gay.’”

The revelation ended their physical relationship and Austin moved to a nearby flat purchased for her by Mercury’s music-publishing company. Yet she remained part of the band’s extended circle. “She went on the road with them. There are photographs of them together backstage at concerts into the late seventies by which stage they were no longer a couple,” says biographer Blake. “He was to all intents and purposes a gay man. It’s a very interesting part of their story, that having lived together as a couple and her believing that at one point they would be married and then having to come to terms with the fact that he was sleeping with guys. And they remained such good friends for so long after that. She stayed as part of the band’s entourage because she was part of his entourage. She was the most important person in that entourage.”

r55 "gay celebrity?" LOL, at this point I don't even think he was bi. Bisexual men don't stiff and then stiff the men in their lives and give everything including the family, the money, and the emotional intimacy to the women. Wait, on second thought, he does sound bi...

Mary kept his family happy. Jim kept Freddie happy. Mary didn't have to fuck Freddie but still got rich. Jim got AIDS and died.

R57 Er, the issue that he had some obsession that she should have been his wife if t pesky sexual orientation hadn't been messing everything up. The narrative fits on all ends. You just somehow don't get it because True Loooveeee!

Yes, r56 exactly. He found "the right girl" and it still didn't help.

"I don't feel jealous of her lovers because. of course, she has a life to lead, and so do I. Basically, I try to make sure she's happy with whoever she's with and she tries to do the same for me."

"We look after each other and that's a wonderful form of love. I might have all the problems in the world, but I have Mary and that gets me through."

Mary knew Freddie before he was famous, that may have played a part of this too.

I love this photo

R64 I keep saying that.... Jim was around for 7 years, Mary for 21.... how do you compare?

Mary looks lovely here

I cannot believe there is still discussion over Freddie Goddamn Mercury's sexuality. Gay, you fools: G.A.Y. Hey, I hear there's a new movie trying to explain this to you, check it out.

Also, thanks r 59, the scene with admiting he's bi to Mary and her responding he is gay, is taken directly from her recollection. That screenplay.is incredibly authentic.

R20, what a horrible thing to say.

r53 Thanks for the link.

'Meet Mary Austin, the Woman Who Stole Freddie Mercury's Heart Go inside Freddie Mercury's relationship with Mary Austin, the woman who inspired Queen's song "Love of My Life"'

Yup, sounds pretty gay to me. There's nothing gayer than loving a woman who stole your heart, am I right folks?

She looked AMAZING

How fucking dumb are you r70. They were dating, but stopped because he realized he needed dick, then were platonical besties. It's not rocket science I would have thought.

Her when she went dark in 1974

Someone mentioned upthread about Mercury's deep closet. I think that played a part in his will. He left things so people would think Mary was the love of his life and he wasn't gay. He left Hutton the same amount he left his chef and personal driver. Back in the eighties, half a million pounds was an enormous amount of money anyway. He figured Hutton wasn't going to live long and it was better the leave everything to Mary since she'll be around to enjoy it. He didn't want his fortune ending up in Hutton's nieces and nephews' hands. So the will was the final document to keep the closet door shut, please his parents,

I have no love for Mary since she threw a man with AIDS out of what had been his home for many years. She was already provided for, and could have bought something else, and kept the nearby apartment.

Lmfaoooooo @ Mary could have kept the nearby apartment and not live in the house MERCURY LEFT TO HER.

Him giving Hutton the same amount as his chef and driver proves the point he saw Hutton as a companion and someone to fuck and nothing more or less, no matter how much you all claim otherwise, no matter how much proof there is or him loving Mary more than anyone.

There are quotes above from Mercury where he says she’s not his number one etc. and you all still keep on with Hutton. Mercury did not love Hutton how he loved Mary. Get over it.

Okay, He LOVED MARY! And she's a heartless CUNT. And he remained a fucking closet case till his death. Fuck him -and- her.

He wasn’t a closet case though. I don’t get why you all keep saying that. He was very much out to everyone that knew him. The band knew, Mary knew, everyone around him did and no one cared as far as we know, but he didn’t tell the media cause it was the 70s and 80s and his career would have been over right there, especially in the states.

You as a gay man should know this.

And she’s not a monster for taking the home she was given. Mercury gave Hutton money to get himself a new place. That was why Hutton got money. If not who knows if he would have given him less.

Did Mary help write the will?

Mary loved him before he was famous. Their relationship was a period of his life where he had a "normal" life. There are pictures of Mary and him cooking together in front of a stove, preparing to host a dinner party. It was the type of domestic bliss that society told him he should pursue. It wasn't Mary's fault that she couldn't fulfill Freddie. After their relationship ended, he probably felt guilty for having led her on too long after he realized his sexuality...and for cheating on her. When he told her the truth, she was gracious and encouraged him to embrace the truth about himself. It could have been worse. She could have sold stories to the press and outed him.

When Freddie was on tour, he asked Mary to buy a home for him and decorate it before he returned. So, in a way, that home was always "hers".

Jim Hutton was obviously more than a "fuck buddy". They were together for 7 years. That's the same amount of time that Freddie had a sexual relationship with Mary. I think it would have been more fair to give them an even amount of money. He should have given 50% to his parents, with the knowledge that his sister would eventually inherit it. Then 25% (and the house) to Mary and 25% to Jim. If he was afraid of Jim dying, leaving the money to someone else, then he should have set up some trust to pay Jim, with the trust transferred to Mary after Jim's death.

Jim did not deserve the same amount as Mary for a third of the time.

He had relationships with others in between. Shall they get 25% also? Lmfaooooo

Jim was not just some live-in fuckbuddy, Freddie considered him his husband and they wore wedding bands. Even Brian May of all people released a statement after Jim died in early 2010 saying: We mark and mourn the passing, after a long smoking-related illness of Jim Hutton. Jim and Freddie were close for many years, of course, and in modern parlance would have been called civil partners. Jim was a quiet and gentle soul, unimpressed and faintly amused by the machinations of Fame, Rock and Roll, and Queen, and so provided Freddie with a refreshingly different view on life. Jim was devoted to gardening, and to breeding the carp which gave Freddie so much pleasure in his pond at Garden Lodge. Our sincere condolences to his sisters and family. RIP Jim.

© brianmay.com

There's no point arguing with R75. They will derail any conversation with their lunacy.

If you are amenable to reason, R75, you demean Freddie and Mary's relationship by refusing to accept it for what it was. Mary was happy to see Freddie be what he was supposed to be - her own words.

For R75

Good for her. She was a big part of his life, and she knew him before he was famous.

Well his will speaks volumes on his and Jim’s relationship... accept it.

After Freddie's death, his driver, Terry got 100 000 pounds and Jim, chef Joe Fanelli (who was also Freddie's ex and a good friend) and Peter 'Phoebe' Freestone (his friend and PA) got 500 000 pounds each. Only Freddie knew why he left Mary the bulk of his estate. That certainly doesn't mean Freddie was bi or whatever. He was gay and he was entitled to leave his money to whomever he wished.

R86 exactly.

Just cause I’m gay doesn’t mean I can’t love a woman with all my heart and care about her.

^^^Tim Tebow?

Jim was a good person and does not deserve all this hate:

"In the middle of a crowded nightclub, Jim Hutton found me. Jim, as many of you know, was Freddie's lover and he had heard of my impending eviction. He pressed a cheque into my hand and said: Freddie would have never had have you sleep on the street. The cheque was for the amount I needed to keep my home. Of course, I said: Thank you Jim. Jabbing his finger skywards, Jim replied: Don't thank me, thank Freddie. "-- Trevor Clarke friend and confidante of Freddie

Jim was wonderful. Doesn’t mean Freddie saw him as important as Mary.

Mary is such an evil greedy cunt. I think she guilt tripped Freddie into leaving her his money. She was controlling and manipulative to the extreme with Freddie. Not only did Freddie's partner get shafted so did his parents and sister.

To lighten things up a little in this heated who- was- more- important- to -Freddie- discussion, I'll leave this quote by Freddie's PA Phoebe Freestone here: “His cock was huge. It was the envy of many and pleasure of many. ”

R91 his family (parents and sister) received 50% of his money. Then Mary got 25% and everyone else got a little something.