Australian socialite Primrose Dunlop, daughter of Lady Primrose Potter, has died aged 70 after a dementia diagnosis.
Dunlop, known as ‘Pitty Pat’, was Potter’s daughter from a previous marriage to Dr Roger Dunlop. Her mother later married millionaire stockbroker, Sir Ian Potter.
Lady Potter confirmed her daughter had died February 5 in a statement.
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“My daughter, Primrose, has lost her battle with frontotemporal dementia – a heart-wrenching disease,” her mother said per multiple outlets.
Dunlop’s death comes years after she entered full-time care for her frontotemporal dementia diagnosis in 2022.
According to Mayo Clinic, frontotemporal dementia affects the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain, with symptoms worsening over time and including changes to personality and loss of language use ability.
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Over the weekend, Lady Potter donated $1 million in her daughter’s name to The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health.
Journalist Melissa Hoyer paid tribute to her colleague and “good friend”.
Hoyer remembered Dunlop as “one always highly entertaining woman.”
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“And yes, she actually had a job! In a blokes newspaper room for goodness sake – that’s why I loved her even more!” she wrote on Instagram.
“I would watch her demeanour often and the way she treated people – she *could* have been one hideously entitled socialite. But she was the opposite,” she said.
“To some it may have been perceived as inverted snobbery but to me! Prim was just a genuinely good & funny soul.”
Hoyer said the “empathy and compassion she had for all was just extraordinary.”
Dunlop was the heiress to a $60 million fortune.
According to The Sydney Morning Herald, that was the fortune her mother’s late husband Sir Potter has amassed, as listed by the Australian Business magazine in 1989.
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She famously caught the attention of the world in 1990 when her husband-to-be shockingly left her for his best man ahead of the wedding.
The socialite was set to marry Qantas steward Lorenzo Montesini, who claimed to hold the title of a European prince, in a Venice wedding.
A few years later, Dunlop went on to marry Polish Count Jerzy Krasicki v Siecin in 1993.
The couple welcomed a daughter, Countess Zofia Krasicki v Siecin.
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