Freddie died on November 24 1991 and a funeral ceremony took place three days later. Three months later, Mary asked Peter, Jim and Freddie's ex Joe Fanelli to all move out of One Garden Lodge. She moved in and took over, giving Hutton about three months to clear out and find a new residence. Hutton used his bequeathed fortune to return to Ireland. Is Freddie Mercury’s partner, Jim Hutton, still alive? Following his relocation to Ireland, Hutton poured his grief into a memoir titled Mercury and Me. He detailed his time with the Published August 14, 2022 Updated September 9, 2022 Jim Hutton and Freddie Mercury enjoyed seven love-filled years together before the latter died of AIDS-related complications on November 24, 1991. Vintage Everyday Freddie Mercury and Jim Hutton remained a couple until the singer’s untimely death in 1991. Mercury hid his sexuality from his family. For most of Mercury's life, the wider world didn't accept gays and bisexuals. Born in 1946, he grew up at a time when same-sex attraction was considered Freddie Mercury arriving by helicopter for Queen's famous Knebworth concert on August 9, 1986. Picture: Getty. While Freddie Mercury's public stage persona is well known, these images celebrate the star's life behind closed doors when he relaxed with friends and family backstage and at his quiet London home. According to Mercury’s partner Jim Hutton, Queen’s lead singer felt what Prenter did was was the ultimate betrayal. Hutton recounts another Mercury tabloid story in his book Mercury and Me “On May 4, Freddie was devastated by another story about him in the Sun. And so was I. His old friend, Paul Prenter had stitched him up. It's been 28 years since Freddie Mercury died, but fascination about the flamboyant Queen frontman still rages on. Freddie was just 45 when he took his last breath at Garden Lodge, the high-walled mansion in London's fashionable Kensington where he lived with his life partner and 'husband' Jim Hutton. Freddie and Jim's love story was cruelly Sept. 5, 1946: Farrokh Bulsara is born. Freddie Mercury was born Farrokh Bulsara in 1946 on the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar. His parents, Bomi and Jer Bulsara, were Parsi and practiced Zoroastrianism, the world's oldest monotheistic religion. Mercury had one younger sister, Kashmira Cooke. 2 / 25. But his former partner Jim Hutton disclosed that in his autobiography a couple of years after Freddie died, so I very much doubt Mary would have left them there.’ Mary’s ex-husband, Nick Queen frontman Freddie Mercury died on November 24 1991, just 24 hours after telling the world he had Aids - but the icon never came out to his family Freddie with his life partner Jim Hutton u68U.