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Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou arrived in East Finchley, Middlesex on the 25th of June 1963. He was the youngest child and only son of a Greek Cypriot restaurateur named Kyriacos Panayiotou and an English dancer named Lesley Angold.
His debut solo album Faith released in late October 1987 included the number one singles I Want Your Sex and Faith which spent four consecutive weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. The album sold over 25 million copies worldwide and won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in February 1989.
On the 7th of April 1998 Michael was arrested for engaging in a lewd act in a public restroom at the Will Rogers Memorial Park in Beverly Hills California during a sting operation by undercover policeman Marcelo Rodríguez. He pleaded no contest to the charge and was fined US$810 plus sentenced to 80 hours of community service.
In the early hours of Christmas Day 2016 Michael died in bed at his home in Goring-on-Thames Oxfordshire at age 53 due to natural causes including dilated cardiomyopathy with myocarditis and fatty liver disease. His funeral was held on the 29th of March 2017 in a private ceremony where he was buried at Highgate Cemetery alongside his mother and sister Melanie.
He supported the Terrence Higgins Trust and Macmillan Cancer Support anonymously throughout his life and donated millions to Childline following his death. Michael also performed a free concert for NHS nurses in London in 2006 thanking them for caring for his mother who died of cancer in 1997.