Van Morrison's love child fattened-up and dead from diabetes at 13 months I came across this insane story whilst reading Van Morrison's Wikipedia page.  Here's the rough facts (bear with me, it's unbelievable) 1) Van Morrison has been married to a former Miss Ireland since the 1990s (and has 2 children with her, and 1 from an earlier marriage) 2) In late 2009 a birth announcement went up on his website for a son with Gigi Lee (a blonde from Texas) 3) He immediately had the announcement pulled, denied knowing the woman, and successfully sued in court to stop all reporting on the matter. 4) Press discovers emails showing Gigi Lee worked for Van and had authorized the birth announcement--court allowed press to cover story 5) Gigi Lee had been diagnosed with throat cancer early in her pregnancy and avoided chemo. 6) Gigi Lee subsequently died in October 2011 back in her native Texas. 7) Upon her death, it was discovered that her love child with Van Morrison had died 10 months previously (at 13 months old) in a diabetic coma.  Tests showed a glucose reading of 426mg, which indicates extreme hyperglycaemia, and  extremely high blood sugar.  The 13 month old weighed a staggering 33lbs. Here's a link to just one article about the fiasco: EDIT:  Many of you have commented that perhaps the child had Type I.  I honestly do not know enough about Type I to deduce that myself.  A number of the articles I read online specifically mentioned "obesity" as one of the causes of death.