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<\/p>\nHe inspired an unforgettable song and saddened a nation, so who is Conor Clapton and what happened to him?<\/p>\n
Conor Clapton sadly passed away in March 1991 and was memorialised in his father's hit song Tears in Heaven.<\/p>\n
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The young boy's life was cut tragically short when he fell to his death from his mother's 53rd-floor Manhattan apartment.<\/p>\n
Conor was born on August 21, 1986 and is the son of guitaring legend Eric Clapton and Italian actress Lory del Santo.<\/p>\n
Sadly Conor, who Eric once described as "the one thing in my life that good could come out of," when he stormed out of a window that had been left open in his mother's high-rise apartment in March 1991.<\/p>\n
According to accounts of the day, the four-year-old tot jumped from a cantilevered window in the living which a janitor has left open.<\/p>\n
Young Conor was in the care of his nanny when the tragedy occurred and had been excitedly preparing to visit the Bronx Zoo with his rocker dad that day.<\/p>\n
The tragic event spurred Eric to write hit song Tears in Heaven, which appeared on the 1991 Rush film soundtrack.<\/p>\n
The song was Eric's best-selling single in the US and reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100 and charted in the top 10 in more than 20 countries around the world.<\/p>\n
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Lory is an Italian actress who was born in Veneto in 1958. Her father died in a car accident when she was three.<\/p>\n
Lory started her TV career as 16 staring in the 1975 edition of Festivalbar – an Italian singing competition.<\/p>\n
Years later she moved to Rome and Milan, acting in a range of comedies in the late 1970s and did some modelling on the side. She once entered the Miss Universe competition in 1980.<\/p>\n
Lory was barely 27 when she met 40-year-old Eric during two concerts he performed in Milan in October 1985.<\/p>\n
The pair were allegedly "smitten" which each other and kicked off a love affair.<\/p>\n
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At the time, Eric was still married to Pattie – Beatle George Harrison's former wife, whom he obsessively pursued for years.<\/p>\n
He and Pattie at the time were trying for children and were booked in for another round of fertility treatment when Eric announced his lover had fallen pregnant with his child.<\/p>\n
Lory gave birth in a private word at the maternity wing of St Mary's Hospital in London and lived in a house Eric rented for her in the well-to-do area of Chelsea.<\/p>\n
The pair never married.<\/p>\n