Police probing the death of former Qatari princess, 45, reveal they found bloodstains, broken glass and vodka bottles at her £2m Marbella penthouse – but still do not know how she died
- Police investigating the death of a former Qatari princess found broken glass, bloodstains and vodka bottles scattered around her luxury home
- Kasia Galliano, 45, was found in a bedroom on a floor of her £2m penthouse
- A report revealed multiple types of medication were found in her apartment
- It may be impossible to clarify the mystery surrounding her death, police said
Police investigating the death of a former Qatari princess found broken glass, bloodstains and vodka bottles scattered around her luxury home, it has been revealed.
Traces of vomit were also visible on a bed where socialite Kasia Galliano, 45, was lying face down and in a bathroom on the upper floor of her £2million penthouse in the Spanish resort of Puerto Banus near Marbella.
The mother-of-three is known to have been depressed after fighting a toxic custody battle for her three daughters with her billionaire ex-husband Abdelaziz bin Khalifa Al Thani, the 73-year-old uncle of the current Emir of Qatar.
But police sources are privately admitting the lack of CCTV footage and the absence of witnesses means it may be impossible to clarify the mystery surrounding her death.
A police report revealed that neighbouring apartments were empty meaning that nobody heard anything, although there were no signs of violence or of a break-in.
Socialite Kasia Galliano, 45, was found lying face down in a bedroom on the upper floor of her £2million penthouse in the Spanish resort
Gallanio (right) with one of her daughters. She lost custody of them after a French court heard that Gallanio was prone to nervous breakdowns
Galiano and Abdelaziz bin Khalifa Al Thani split in 2007, later divorcing in 2012. She maintained her royal lifestyle after the split, remaining a frequent face in high-flying social circles
The report revealed that multiple types of medication were found in her apartment including blister packs of antidepressants and Disulfiram which is used to treat alcoholism.
The drug reduces cravings for alcohol by causing unpleasant hangover-type side effects when even a small amount is drunk.
The police report, leaked to respected local Spanish-language newspaper Diario Sur, also confirmed that officers found no suicide note or illegal drugs in the apartment.
Spanish police were alerted on Sunday May 29 by one of Ms Gallanio’s 17-year-old twin daughters in Paris who had become concerned after being unable to contact her for four days.
Officers got no reply when they knocked several times on her door on the seventh floor of the exclusive Playas del Duque complex, near the Puerto Banus marina and its multi million pound yachts.
The report said that a concierge, who last saw her four days earlier, provided a spare key which was kept in case she ever locked herself out, but that did not work as there was a key in the lock on the inside of the door.
Firefighters were alerted and used a ladder to gain access through a landing window without having to break-in. The decomposed body of Ms Gallanio was found dead in her bed, being guarded by her faithful Pomeranian dog called Honey.
The report said that she had been ordering home deliveries of alcohol, and that multiple bottles of Absolut vodka were inside her flat.
Gallanio and her daughters with her Pomeranian, Honey, who was found protecting her body
Some of the bottles were broken on the floor and bloodstains suggested that Ms Gallanio had cut her feet by walking on the smashed glass.
A post mortem to try and established how she died proved inconclusive and officers are still awaiting the results of toxicology tests at a specialist forensic laboratory in Seville.
But police have confirmed there are no suspicious circumstances and they are currently not looking for anyone else in connection with the tragedy.
Ms Gallanio who is of Polish descent and grew up in Los Angeles had married her Qatari prince husband after he wooed her when she was a 19-year-old student in Paris, despite their 28-year age gap.
But the pair split in 2007 after having three daughters together and later divorced. Ms Gallanio had travelled to Paris in April for legal hearings to try and get custody of her 17-year-old twins and her 15-year-old daughter.
But a French court ruled the girls should temporarily stay in France where their billionaire father lives after reportedly hearing that Ms Gallanio was prone to nervous breakdowns and had visited detox clinics in her battle against alcohol use.
A concierge, who last saw her four days earlier, provided a spare key which was kept in case Kasia ever locked herself out, but that did not work as there was a key in the lock on the inside of the door
The 7th floor Penthouse apartment in Marbella where Kasia’s body was found is pictured. As well as being depressed about the custody battle over her daughters, she was also said to be devastated by the recent death of a close friend Sheikh Ahmed Ashmawi
A porter with access to the penthouse unlocked the door for two police officers who discovered her at around 8am on Sunday May 29
Kasia Gallanio accused her ex-husband, the emir’s uncle, of incest shortly before her death, court claims that were strenuously denied
The court heard allegations that the prince had sexually abused one of his daughters, although he fiercely denied the claims, according to reports in French newspaper Le Parisien.
The Paris Prosecutor’s Office has opened an investigation into the girl’s claims that she was touched inappropriately between the ages of nine and 15, and forced to sometimes share a bed with her father.
Other friends of Ms Gallanio are said to have dismissed claims that she drank excessively or took drugs, and say that she lived a healthy lifestyle, enjoying yoga and running.
As well as being depressed about the custody battle, she was also said to be devastated by the recent death of a close friend Sheikh Ahmed Ashmawi, according to Spanish publication Vanitatis.
Ms Gallanio’s French lawyer Sabrina Boesch told Le Parisien that her client had been left ‘devastated’ by the custody proceedings and revelations in court.
She said: ‘I think that, above all, she has died of grief’. But a well-placed insider, confirming local reports, told MailOnline: ‘If her death turns out to be the result of an adverse reaction to a medicine or medicine mixed with alcohol, it will be very difficult and possibly impossible to determine if it was accidental or voluntary.’
Ms Galliano’s ex-husband was exiled in Paris following a coup led by his half-brother Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani in 1995.
Her secret boyfriend, singer and nightclub manager Bruce Baps, told MailOnline last week how she was attacked and robbed in her penthouse two months before her death.
Mr Baps said she was left badly hurt and ‘scared for her life’ in the weeks after the attack, although she recovered.
He also revealed how Ms Gallanio, who had more than 500,000 followers on Instagram and mingled with Hollywood stars, had sent him a final message before her death, saying simply: ‘I am going to sleep’.
Mr Baps did not panic when she failed to respond because he thought she was resting, but he became increasingly worried when she did not reply to later messages.
Mr Baps said he went to her apartment, but there was no answer. He insisted that he did not believe she had killed herself, saying: ‘She was not sad, she was not bad, Kasia did not commit suicide.’
MailOnline also told how Ms Gallanio tried to give bags of designer clothes to her cleaner in the days before her death.
Bolivian-born Teodora Poma, 43, believes her employer might have made the gesture to say farewell to her.
Ms Poma said she was taking time off work to undergo medical treatment for a liver condition in hospital by the time her employer had returned to Spain after her custody battle in Paris.
The heartbroken cleaner said: ‘She was giving me a lot of moral support to get me through this treatment.
‘She was a really lovely person, very loving and a real fighter for her daughters. She was always saying that she wanted to be with her daughters and she loved them very much.
‘But because the girls were with the father, she could not see them for long periods. When I was in hospital, she sent me a video showing stuff she wanted to give me. It was bags of clothes.
‘I don’t believe that she killed herself,’ Gallanio’s secret boyfriend exclusively told MailOnline
‘I am 100 percent sure she did not die of an overdose,’ Louis Spagnuolo, a friend of the deceased Kasia Gallanio, 45, told the Daily Beast
Qatari billionaire, Galliano’s ex-husband, Sheikh Abdelaziz bin Khalifa Al Thani is pictured left in Paris in 1980. He was exiled to Paris following a coup led by his half-brother Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani in 1995. In an interview with Women’s World in April, Gallanio (right) described her life as like living in a ‘golden cage’, saying how she wanted freedom from her ex-husband
‘She always used to give me stuff when she cleaned a wardrobe out. She might have been saying goodbye by trying to give me all this stuff.
‘Kasia told me that she was going through all this trouble with the court case. She didn’t want to share all the details and I didn’t ask.
‘She was in quite a good mood, but my colleague and I could tell she was depressed. She wasn’t right.
‘At the last minute she asked if we could come back this week to get her flat sorted and I said I would try and organise it.
‘After that she didn’t answer. I didn’t hear from her again. I sent a message and didn’t get a reply so I imagined that she might have gone back to Paris or somewhere.
‘When she didn’t reply, I thought, “What has happened here?”, but then I thought she had gone to see her daughters.’
Spanish lawyers acting for Ms Gallanio’s daughters said that ‘unfounded speculation’ about the causes of her death had been causing trauma to her family.
A statement from the law firm Alvarez-Ossorio Y Castro Abogados based in Sotogrande, Cadiz, said: ‘Unfounded speculation about the still-undetermined causes of Mrs Galliano’s death will not be allowed.
‘With the highest respect for the right to freedom of information, but to preserve her memory, this press statement intends to record that any unverified publication about the circumstances of the death of Mrs Galliano will give rise to the immediate exercise of all legal actions in the most forceful way.
‘We request that the Administration of Justice be allowed to carry out its work, avoiding unfounded speculation that is not only in the sphere of criminal responsibility, but also seriously affects her family and loved ones.’
The Puerto Banus marina packed with multi-million dollar yachts is a minute’s walk from Gallanio’s apartment
The harbor in Puerto Banus, just outside of Marbella, where Gallanio was known as ‘la Sheiquesa’
Hair stylist Ivan Romero said: ‘Kasia was very friendly and a nice lady who was always very courteous. We are very surprised and shocked by her death’
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