, art dealer Goss – who was in a relationship with Michael between 1996 and 2009 – said: “We all expected him to die. I had spent so much time when we lived together, being worried about him.
“Honestly, he hated the fact that I worried about him so much. What’s the line he says in one of his songs? He says, ‘I can see it in your eyes when you look at me that way, it tears me in two.’ And it really did. I just didn’t know what to do.”Goss said he “really did try” to save Michael’s life. “What I always do notice, is there was a lot longer time that I was incredibly happy with him than I was worried with him,” he said.This content is not available due to your privacy preferences.Reflecting on their open relationship, Goss said Michael chose him as a partner to “please his mother”, Lesley Angold Panayiotou.
“He had this view that his mother and I were very much alike. And in a lot of ways we were,” Goss said. “I would say, I’m much more a guy that plays by rules and she was kind of the same way. I’m also not judgmental at all.”, after he had demanded payments of £15,000 a month, claiming that Michael had supported him financially when they were together.The majority of Michael’s estate went to his older sisters, his father and friends. He did not leave anything to Goss, nor to his boyfriend at the time of his death, Fadi Fawaz.