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Pixie Skase, the widow of controversial businessman Christopher Skase, has died 83 in Melbourne.

She died on November 15, her daughter Amanda Larkins confirmed on Tuesday night.

Ms Skase was one of Melbourne's best known and most glamorous socialites in the 1980s.

She was known for hosting extravagant parties, her big blonde hair, shoulder pads and love of the finer things in life such as flashy diamonds and French champagne.

'Our beloved beautiful mother Pixie passed away peacefully on Friday afternoon, the 15th of November,' Ms Larkins posted.

'We have had no words to express our loss, and still don't.

She was greatly loved and leaves a hole in our hearts. Rest in Peace Mum.'

Ms Skase was once one of Australia's richest women, jetting around on private planes and building multi-million dollar mansions with her husband.

But her dramatic fall from grace left her renting a modest two-bedroom Toorak