Overview
- Coverage marking the first anniversary revisits that she died at 60 in a Hamburg clinic from multiple organ failure linked to long-standing liver cirrhosis.
- She first became a fixture in the 1990s as Dieter Bohlen’s partner before brief stints hosting the late-night show Peep and appearing on reality TV formats like the Jungle Camp and Big Brother.
- In her 2018 memoir, she disclosed severe alcohol addiction and liver disease, described ADHD medication use, admitted she kept drinking small amounts against medical advice, and wrote of feeling lost.
- A 2023 comeback effort led by entrepreneur Andreas Ellermann included a Schlagermove appearance and a new recording of Fiesta Mexicana, and he later mourned her in an Instagram message.
- Reports also note years of debt, two turns on the debt-help show Raus aus den Schulden, a reported pension of about €200, periods living with and supported by her mother, and a private burial in June 2025 at Hamburg’s Ohlsdorf cemetery.