Article: BACON'S LOVER DIES OF CANCER; Death in Bangkok sparks fight over artist's pounds 30million.(News)

Byline: ANDREW DRUMMOND in Bangkok

THE gay lover of the late Irish artist Francis Bacon died yesterday in a Thai sex resort, sparking what is expected to be a lengthy and bitter legal battle over his pounds 30million (EUR43.5million) fortune.

John Edwards was pronounced dead at Bangkok's Bumrumgrad Hospital in Pattaya after a long battle with lung cancer. He was 54.

Within hours of his death, experts predicted the estate, the value of which has tripled since Bacon died in 1992, could be left to Edward's gay Thai lover. And it's feared he will carve ...

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