LOVERS’ Guide sex guru Wendy-Ann Paige has been found dead aged 61 – decades after transforming millions of Brits’ sex lives.
Cops were investigating the sex stars’ death after a battle with a £70,000 cocaine habit that saw her living like “a hermit” in a rundown flat.
Officers were called to the property, in Southend, Essex, where the star of the world’s best-selling legal sex video was found unresponsive.
Detectives were waiting for the results of a postmortem on former Sun sex columnist Wendy, who previously lived in a £2million Sussex mansion at the height of her fame.
Devastated partner Christian Bines, 50, said: “I just woke up and she was dead. She wouldn’t move and was already gone. I instantly phoned 999.
“They reckon she may have overdosed on tablets in the night. I remember the evening before she said she wasn’t in pain anymore.
“She’d been in agony ever since falling down some steps when going to the cinema in October last year.
“The accident left her with a slipped disc in her back, a broken collarbone and broken deformed arm which she never truly recovered from.”
Christian claimed Wendy-Ann had been “in bed all the time” since the accident and had continuing battles with depression.
Wendy shot to fame in 1991, aged just 28, as the actress in The Lovers Guide, which sold 1.3million copies in Britain.
Wendy helped millions of couples get more from their romps by revealing previously risque techniques and positions – before experiencing real orgasms on camera.
Wendy was working as a marketing director for an overseas property company in 1989 when she met Tony Duffield, then 36.
He was a sound engineer for the band Madness and came into her office to visit a friend who worked there.
She caught his eye and the pair bonded as he fixed her filing cabinet.
They became a couple and responded to an ad in a swingers’ magazine for ‘real people’ to appear in a sex education video.
Wendy previously told The Sun expert doctor Andrew Stanway asked her to can lie on the floor and masturbate in front of him, adding she had to be able to do it in front of the crew.
She said: “I wasn’t nervous, I was a natural. I had a thoroughly good time and after I orgasmed he said, ‘You’re hired!’”
Wendy filmed all her X-rated scenes at a film studio in Acton, West London, including live sex with hubby Tony.
She explained: “There were 35 male crew in the room and cameras everywhere, just one female. After I finished, I said, ‘Can I do it again?’ ”
After her first session, Simon said to the camera crew: “Stop everything! From tomorrow we are all wearing baggy chinos to work.
“Wendy, you can have a two-hour break as we are all going to the toilets for a joint.”
Wendy had not told her dad William, a soldier in the British Army, about the filming.
After becoming an overnight star, Wendy was quickly snapped up by late publicist Max Clifford and landed five sexpert book deals.
She wrote the best-selling Sextrology in 1994, a guide to finding the ideal sexual partner through astrology, which is still stocked by Amazon and Waterstones.
Wendy went on to become a newspaper astrologist before joining The Sun as our sex columnist.
Wendy and Tony moved into a £1million, 18-room house in East Sussex, but claims Tony became jealous of her fame and couldn’t “keep up” with her in the bedroom.
She got hooked on cocaine. Later she suffered from PTSD and depression.
An Essex Police spokesman said: “We were called by colleagues in the East of England Ambulance Service Trust at about midday on Friday December 13 after they were alerted to a woman aged in her sixties having been found to have died in Southend.
“Officers were sent to the scene to support.
“The woman’s death is being treated as unexpected and unexplained and post-mortem examination will be carried out to identify the cause of her death.”
