The broken-hearted dad whose three young daughters perished in a 2011 Christmas Day fire at their mom’s Connecticut mansion has died.

Matthew Badger’s passing was announced Thursday by the Lily Sarah Grace Fund — the foundation launched by the distraught father to honor his three lost girls.

Lily, 9, and twins Grace and Sarah, 7, died in the raging blaze that also killed their maternal grandparents.

...The group was started to honor the three sisters by boosting arts programs at needy public elementary schools.

Badger, 51, said in a 2012 interview that the loss of the three girls left him devastated.

“I don’t think the loss is ever going away,” Badger told People magazine. “It ended my life."

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