Jim Hutton was working as a hairdresser when he first met Freddie Mercury in a bar in 1983. Their relationship evolved over several months in 1984 and 1985. Hutton worked as a barber at the Savoy Hotel and retained his job and his lodgings in Sutton, Surrey, for two years after moving in with Mercury, and then worked as a gardener.
Then, at 7:12 p.m., Freddie Mercury died with Jim Hutton by his side, according to Hutton’s memoir. “He looked radiant. One minute he was a boy with a gaunt, sad little face and the next he was a picture of ecstasy,” Hutton wrote. “Freddie’s whole face went back to everything it had been before. He looked finally and totally at peace.
As well as that, Mercury left money to some other people in his life, including ÂŁ500,000 to his chef Joe Fanelli, his personal assistant Peter Freestone and to Jim Hutton, while he left ÂŁ100,000