Inside Freddie Mercury's first 'derogatory' meeting with boyfriend Jim Hutton. In an unearthed interview, Freddie Mercury has revealed how the unusual song came into being. Boyfriend Jim Hutton, former lover and best friend Mary Austin, personal chef Joe Fanelli and PA Peter Freestone shared the responsibilities of Freddie's final days between them. In the end, Freddie left Jim Hutton, Joe and Peter £500,000 each. He left one quarter of his future earnings from Queen to his parents and another quarter to his sister. Apart from some minor Mercury went on to date Jim Hutton (played by Aaron McCusker in Bohemian Rhapsody), a hairdresser from County Carlow, for seven years after they met at a gay club in London in the 1980s. Jim Hutton was Freddie Mercury's live-in boyfriend from 1985 until his death in 1991. Hutton died of lung cancer on New Year's Day, 2010. He and Mercury were never married, but acted as married couples do. He wrote a book about his time with Mercury, which he said helped him grieve. Rami Malek plays Freddie Mercury and Ben Hardy plays Roger Taylor. Rami Malek won an Oscar for his performance as Freddie Mercury. The film also brilliantly respects Freddie’s relationship with his love Jim Hutton. We, at Hollywood Insider, will continue to support, cherish, and be inspired by our non-conforming superstar Freddie Mercury. FREDDIE MERCURY'S partner Jim Hutton would have been 71 today. The Queen star only spoke once about their relationship in public and the one wonderful thing he had finally found. Jim Hutton, the Irish partner of the late pop idol Freddie Mercury, died on New Year’s Day, 2010, after a long battle with cancer. He lived with the Queen singer for the last six years of his life and was present at his bedside when he died of bronchopneumonia brought on by AIDS. He was laid to rest in his hometown of Carlow, Ireland. Some would even say impossible. By the time he died, Freddie had lived with his Irish boyfriend Jim Hutton for four years, having met in 1985 at the gay club, Heaven. Jim was left pounds 500,000 in the will, plus a plot of land in Ireland on which to build a house. FREDDIE MERCURY’S lover Jim Hutton, the man with whom the Queen legend spent the last seven years of his life, opened up on the heartbreaking moment he learned the star had been diagnosed with rZZOvgF.