Debbie Raymond

Short Biography

She was a healthy baby, while her twin was stillborn, and Raymond (her father Paul Raymond) decided she was made of sterner stuff and later described her as "the toughest person I've ever met".Pretty, blonde Debbie was a devoted daddy's girl who modelled herself on her adoring father. Headstrong and stubborn, she was expelled from public school for drinking and smoking and at 18 fled to Las Vegas to become a Bunny Girl.She also had her father's nose for business.While her younger brother Howard worked hard to impress their father, she could do no wrong in his eyes.Even her love life was as colourful as her father's. India Rose, now 16, was fathered by her second husband John James, and Fawn, now 21, is the daughter of 10cc musician Duncan MacKay.Despite amassing a personal fortune of £35million from her own business acumen, she battled depression, alcoholism and a hunger for drugs.She died in 1992, aged 36, in a boyfriend's flat, after taking heroin, vodka and cocaine. Her drink and drugs habit took her life - and blighted her father's.