>>6965364“I knew about all this adult work, escorting, so on and so forth — but I kept my mouth shut,” he said.
Mr Karagoli, who also used drugs, said the couple had fought about her sex work, which he was “disgusted” by.
“I knew something had been happening but my mind was too clouded from the drink and drugs,” he said.
“I told her: ‘I know what you’re doing, you can talk to me about it. You don’t have to hide things from me and, if you’re desperate for money, I’ll help.’”
“I now think all of this was a gateway to her seeing men in person,” Mr Karagoli said. "She had her demons."
Lady Beth had a history of drug and alcohol abuse and lived with several mental illnesses including bipolar disorder and emotionally unstable personality disorder.
However, her father Lord Queensbury told the coroner he believed Lady Beth had not taken heroin before her death.
“I am almost certain that this is the first occasion in which my daughter, who had taken a lot of drugs, but she had not had intravenous heroin before as far as I know,” he said.
“No one takes their first intravenous injection of heroin without assistance. Someone helped her and nobody seems interested as to who that is.”
He said in the months leading to her death, Lady Beth performed dominatrix webcam shows and spoke to him about selling her underwear online.