Pixie Skase, the widow of controversial businessman Christopher Skase, has died 83 in Melbourne.
She died on November 15, her daughter Amanda Larkins said on Tuesday night.
Ms Skase was one of Melbourne’s best known and most glamorous socialites in the 1980s.
She was known for extravagant parties, her big blonde hair, her shoulder pads and her love of the finer things in life such as flashy diamonds.
‘Our beloved beautiful mother Pixie passed away peacefully on Friday afternoon, the 15th of November,’ Ms Larkins posted.
‘We have had no words to express our loss, and still don’t. She was greatly loved and leaves a hole in our hearts. Rest in Peace Mum.’
Ms Skase was once one of Australia’s richest women, jetting around on private planes and building $35million mansions with her husband.
But her dramatic fall from grace left her renting a modest two-bedroom Melbourne apartment from a friend for $560-a-week and rifling through supermarket bargain bins.
The socialite lived exiled in Spain for 17 years after the collapse of her husband’s $1.5billion company Qintex in 1991, leaving Mr Skase with personal debts of $172million.
After her husband died from stomach cancer in 2001, Ms Skase returned to Australia and kept a low profile.
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