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EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Photographer David Bailey's son Sascha says he was transgender in Japan - 'I lost it completely and thought I wanted to be female'

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: David Bailey enjoyed marriages to beautiful women including film star Catherine Deneuve and model Marie Helvin.

David Bailey enjoyed marriages to beautiful women including film star Catherine Deneuve and model Marie Helvin. But the celebrated photographer's son Sascha Bailey tells me he was so unhappy during his own marriage that he began the formal process to become a woman 'as an escape from the trauma'. Last year, I disclosed that Sascha, 29, an art curator, had 'fled' Tokyo after the collapse of his ten-year marriage to Japanese lawyer Mimi Nishikawa, who is a decade his senior.

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