RICKY Bibey posted about "evil" in cryptic message on Instagram just weeks before dying in a swanky hotel room in Italy.
It's feared the rugby ace, 40, was killed during a "sex game gone wrong".
Investigators are piecing together how the former England prop-forward died in the couple's £350-a-night hotel room in Florence on Saturday.
A post-mortem is due to be carried out later this week following a delay over "family matters" – and it's believed Bibey's brother is now in the central Italian city.
But just weeks before the dad-of-two's death, he shared a quote from Greek Stoic philosopher Epictetus about "evil" in a cryptic Instagram post on June 19.
It read: "If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it."
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He then jetted to Tuscany with his partner from Manchester last week.
The last pictures of the rugby star and his Brit girlfriend show the pair walking to their four-star hotel with a mystery couple at 4am on the day of his death.
Less than three hours after the footage was taken, paramedics raced to the hotel after his girlfriend called emergency services.
Bibey was pronounced dead at the scene, with an autopsy reportedly confirming he died from a heart attack.
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His blood-soaked girlfriend reportedly screamed "Oh my God, he's dead?" after cops told her Bibey had died.
The 44-year-old was given the tragic news at her bedside in hospital and had to be calmed down by medical staff, a report claimed.
The woman – whose identity has not been revealed – was reportedly seen half-naked and covered in blood running into the hotel hallway calling for help from guests and staff, according to Italian news outlets.
She suffered from wounds including to her neck and was rushed to Florence's Careggi hospital where she underwent surgery for a haemorrhage.
A prosecution insider told the MailOnline that the Brit was in a serious but stable condition.
The source said: "When we told her that her partner had died she screamed 'Oh my God – he's dead?'
"She said she had no idea and then she had to be calmed down. She was in a terrible way and has had several operations."
They said cops were "unlikely" to question her for several days until getting the all-clear from her doctors.
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It's understood Bibey was found with marks on his neck and wrists and prosecutors want to establish if they were inflicted during consensual sex or whether he was trying to defend himself.
The insider said cops were investigating whether it was a case of consensual sex gone wrong.
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