One of pop superstar George Michael's sisters has died exactly three years after her brother's Christmas Day death in 2016.
A statement from family lawyer John Reid confirmed the unexpected death of Melanie Panayiotou, 55, on Wednesday and appealed for privacy."We can confirm that very tragically Melanie has passed away suddenly," the statement said.
Police said the death is not being treated as suspicious and that a report will be given to the coroner. Michael, whose real name was Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou, compiled a long string of pop hits as a solo artist and earlier with Wham! A postmortem exam attributed his death at age 53 to natural causes - specifically, a heart condition and a fatty liver.
With the third anniversary of the singer-songwriter's death approaching, his relatives had also asked that people continue to do "good deeds in his memory".
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