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Katy Ellen French (31 October 1983 – 6 December 2007) was an Irish socialite and model. Born in Basel, Switzerland, French's family moved to Ireland and lived in the Sandyford area briefly when she was two years old but eventually settled in Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow. According to the BBC, "in the space of less than two years, she had become one of Ireland's best-known models and socialites."[1] She died aged 24. Gardaí believe that cocaine was a major contributory factor in French's death.[2]
Career
French attended Alexandra College in Milltown, Dublin from the age of seven. She studied psychology before working for the Assets Modelling Agency. She represented Sony Ericsson and Suzuki, coming to greater acclaim in 2007 as a result of her fiancé, restaurateur Marcus Sweeney, ending their relationship in a very public fashion after French was photographed for a lingerie shoot for the Sunday Independent in his restaurant in January of that year.[3] As a result of this publicity, her image appeared more regularly in daily Irish tabloid newspapers and she made numerous television appearances on shows such as RTÉ's The Podge and Rodge Show in April 2007 and Tubridy Tonight a week before her death.[4] On Tubridy she spoke of her appearance on Celebrities Go Wild (where she proclaimed she'd brought a vibrator as her luxury item) for the People in Need Telethon as well as her relationship break up with Sweeney. Mention was also made of her birthday party which she was to celebrate the following week, having missed her birthday due to Celebrities Go Wild. Host Ryan Tubridy was invited to the event. Footage too was shown of the charity single "Down in the Bog" which was to be released as a Christmas single.[5]
In an interview with Hot Press's Jason O'Toole,[6] she revealed that she would consider having an abortion if she became pregnant during the peak of her career, a controversial claim in Ireland where abortion is effectively illegal, and that she loved fur despite being a "massive animal lover". She also aired her religious beliefs (she was a member of the Church of Ireland but also practised Catholicism) and spoke highly of Islam and her Muslim friends saying, "When you read the Koran, you realise that Islam is a beautiful religion".[7] In the same interview she was asked if she had ever used cocaine and denied ever having done so. Yet in November 2007, French told an Irish tabloid that she had used cocaine in the past.[8] She once worked for the Irish charity GOAL in Calcutta, India.[9]
Death
Katy French died on the evening of December 6 2007 in Our Lady's Hospital, Navan in Co. Meath,[10][11] having collapsed at a friend's house in Kilmessan, County Meath in the early hours of Sunday December 2. The post mortem revealed that she had taken cocaine before her collapse, and suffered brain damage.[12] An Garda Síochána have launched an inquiry into her death.[13] She was buried in her hometown of Enniskerry, County Wicklow on December 10.
References
- ^ Post-mortem is due on Irish model - BBC News. 7 December 2007
- ^ "Celebrity set face grilling in drugs inquiry". Irish Independent. 2007-12-10. Retrieved 2007-12-11.
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(help) - ^ What Marcus Sweeney and Katy French did next . . . - Sunday Independent - February 25 2007
- ^ "I was with Katy in the house and I tried to help her". Irish Independent. 2007-12-06. Retrieved 2007-12-06.
- ^ "Model Katy French dies 5 days after collapsing at party". Belfast Telegraph. 2007-12-06. Retrieved 2007-12-06.
- ^ "This year's model" - Hot Press - 26 Oct 2007
- ^ "Blessing of troubled teenage years" - Irish Independent WEEKEND REVIEW - Sat. Dec 8 2007, p.5
- ^ "Andrea fills in the gaps over Katy's final hours". Irish Independent. 2007-12-10. Retrieved 2007-12-11.
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(help) - ^ Tributes paid to Katy French - RTE News - December 07, 2007
- ^ "Model Katy French dies in hospital". RTÉ. 2007-12-06. Retrieved 2007-12-06.
- ^ "Top Irish model dies in hospital". BBC. 2007-12-06. Retrieved 2007-12-06.
- ^ "Post mortem says French suffered brain damage". RTÉ. 2007-12-07. Retrieved 2007-12-07.
- ^ "Irish Model Dies in Arms of Her Sister, Police Launch Investigation". Fox News. 2007-12-06. Retrieved 2007-12-06.
External links
- Katy French's last television interview - Nov 24 2007