Two seconds ago, it wouldn't have happened." Lory Del Santo , 64 years old in September, will never forget the tragedy of the disappearance of her son Conor, from guitarist Eric Clapton.

At the time of the tragedy, Eric Clapton and Lory Del Santo weren’t together. Lory had full custody of their son, and she and Conor traveled to New York to spend Easter with Clapton.

Clapton — who shared the child with Italian actress and model Lory Del Santo — wrote the song for the soundtrack of the 1991 movie Rush.

ERIC Clapton made a heartbreaking promise to son Conor just one day before the youngster's death in a tragic accident. The legendary guitarist - who has just turned 80 - and Italian model Lory Del ...

Lory Del Santo has lived a thousand lives, between tragedies and rebirths. In the 1980s, she met Eric Clapton, with whom she had a son, Connor: "When he was born, it was truly the most beautiful ...

Clapton, who didn't live with Del Santo and Conor, happened to be in New York at the time. In fact, the night before tragedy struck, he'd taken Conor to the circus for an outing later memorialized ...

The song in question, "Tears in Heaven," was inspired by the death of Clapton's 4-year-old son Conor after a tragic fall from a New York high-rise where the boy had been living with his mother ...

Lory Del Santo, 59, who was the guitarist’s secret lover, made the revelations in an Italian TV interview ROCKER Eric Clapton’s agent offered the mother of his tragic son cash to have an ...

The story of Tears In Heaven is equally tragic and bizarre. On 20 March 1991, four-year-old Conor Clapton climbed through an open window from a Manhattan hotel apartment and fell 53 floors to his ...

Lory Del Santo, the former partner of the musician Eric Clapton, has dedicated a poem to embattled Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi. By Nick Squires 30 November 2010 • 6:23pm ...

Conor, the son of Clapton, now 79 and model Lory Del Santo, 66, fell to his death from the 53rd floor of a New York skyscraper in a horrific freak accident on March 20,1991, five months before his ...