Vogue model Tatjana Patitz who starred in George Michael’s Freedom video dies aged 56-Meghna Amin-Entertainment – Metro

Tatjana Patitz died aged 56 (Picture: Victor VIRGILE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

Tatjana Patitz, a supermodel who starred in George Michael’s Freedom video alongside Cindy Crawford and Linda Evangelista, has died.

The star died at the aged of 56, her agents confirmed to publications including The Daily Mail.

As well as being a cover model who walked the runway in the 80s and 90s, Patitz starred in George Michael’s iconic music video for Freedom! ’90 with the likes of Christy Turlington and Naomi Campbell.

Vogue’s Anna Wintour paid tribute to the late model, writing: ‘Tatjana was always the European symbol of chic, like Romy Schneider-meets-Monica Vitti.

‘She was far less visible than her peers—more mysterious, more grown-up, more unattainable—and that had its own appeal.’

Patitz began modellin aged 17 in 1983 (Picture: Arthur Elgort/Conde Nast via Getty Images)

Patitz, born in Hamburg to an Estonian mother and German father before moving to Sweden, began modelling aged 17 in 1983.

She had entered an Elite Model Contest in Stockholm where she won, after placing third, a trip to Paris with a limited-time contract.

She went on to feature on magazine covers as well as TV adverts (Picture: Blackbird/ABACA/Shutterstock)

Patitz then went on to model fro the likes of Versace and Chanel on runways and in print, as well as on the cover for Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar.

As well as Freedom, Patitz appeared in the video for Duran Duran’s Skin Trade, and played a murder victim in Rising Sun in 1993 alongside Sean Connery.

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She also starred in international TV adverts for brands including Cartier, Pantene and Revlon, and appeared alongside Evangelista, Turlington, Campbell and Kate Moss in Vauxhall Corsa’s 1992 commercial.

She dated Pierce Brosnan and Nick Kamen before marrying Jason Johnson in 2003 with whom she shared a son with. The pair divorced in 2009.

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