Sounds as if most of her immediate family isn’t in Dubai.
Born in the Philippines, Ms Danley moved to the Gold Coast where she married a local man who worked in advertising and became an Australian citizen, living at Nerang for around 10 years until the late 1980s.
The man, Les Darcey, has since passed away.
Ms Danley worked with him for at least some of the time as a bookkeeper and had also had a role during Expo 88 in Brisbane, friends said.
Les helped Ms Danley raise her daughter from a previous relationship, ‘digital innovator’ and artist Sheila Darcey.
Ms Darcey, believed to be in her 40s, lives in Venice, California, with her partner Micah Linton, son of Promega CEO William A. Linton, and their daughter Leila.
Ms Danley, who is last believed to have visited Australia in 2012 to attend her Beenleigh-based mother’s funeral, has two sisters still living in Brisbane – Liz Werner and Amelia Manango.
Ms Manango’s Facebook posts include photos of her and two of her three sons with Ms Danley’s daughter, Sheila, in the US in September.
Another post, dated August 31, shows a picture of the MGM Grand Casino in Las Vegas.
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Facebook photos showed Ms Danley participating in a gambling tournament in Las Vegas in 2014.
She was also a regular at the Mandalay Bay hotel and was there as recently as September 17.