Paul Walker's daughter Meadow, 27, goes TOPLESS after honoring late dad at Cannes with sobbing Vin Diesel

Meadow Walker, the daughter of the late The Fast and the Furious star Paul Walker, stripped down in the summer heat on Instagram this week.

She had just celebrated her 15th birthday when she lost her father to a tragic car accident that left his global fanbase stricken with shock.

Now aged 27, she has followed in his footsteps by entering the acting profession and featuring in Fast X, the 10th movie in his beloved franchise.

The showbiz legacy posted a sizzling album this week in which she welcomed the steamy season by frolicking about in a barely-there floral two-piece.

For one snap, Meadow tore off her bikini top and raised a hand to cover her mouth, using the other to keep herself within Instagram's Community Guidelines.

Another picture showed her lying on her back to soak up a dose of sunshine, flaunting her statuesque legs and her enviably taut midriff. 

Her post comes less than a month after she attended the Cannes Film Festival for a 25th anniversary screening of The Fast and the Furious.

She shared a warm embrace at the event with her father's co-star Vin Diesel, who gave her away at her ill-starred wedding to Louis Thornton-Allen in 2021.

Diesel burst into tears while delivering a speech in memory of Walker, whom he lovingly referred to by his nickname Pablo.

'I pray that in your life, you can have a brother like Paul,' he said, whereupon he became so overcome with emotion that he had to pause. 

After hugging Meadow, he informed the audience: 'She said: "I'm 27, and I'm watching this film that my father made at 27," and I thought: "How profound."'

He was effusive in his praise of his late friend's daughter, raving: 'Meadow has been such a source of strength, and I know he'd be so proud of you.' 

Paul Walker shared Meadow Rain - his only child - with his on-off girlfriend Rebecca Sosteros, whom he had known since they were both children. 

He died in November 2013, at the age of 40, as a passenger in a single-car crash alongside his friend and driver Roger Rodas, who was driving the movie star's Porsche at between 80 and 93 miles per hour when the horror collision occurred. 

The car struck two trees and a lamp post in an incident that killed both men, leaving Meadow fatherless less than a month after her 15th birthday.

In 2016, three years later, Meadow arrived at a legal settlement with Rodas' estate whereby she was granted $10.1 million, according to E! News.

A year earlier, she had filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Porsche, culminating in a settlement in October 2017, ABC News reported.

Walker, who rose to global fame as the leading man of the Fast and Furious franchise, left Meadow his whole $25 million estate, per People.

He appeared in two movies posthumously, the first being a 2014 action film called Brick Mansions co-starring French actor David Belle.

Then came the 2015 release Furious 7, in which archival footage helped the filmmakers bid his character Brian O'Conner farewell.

Meadow continued his legacy by playing a flight attendant in the 10th movie in the series, Fast X, in 2023, alongside which she is pursuing a career as a model.

Her personal life has already proven tempestuous, with her marrying and divorcing the aspiring actor Louis Thornton-Allen by the age of 25. 

They were married for just over two years when they split in December 2023, and in February 2024 Meadow filed for a divorce that was finalized that June.

Meadow and her ex-husband tied the knot in the Dominican Republic in a ceremony attended by some of her father's old co-stars from the Fast and Furious franchise. 

'We couldn’t have imagined it to be any more perfect and personal - and honestly it was easy and simple,' the bride effervesced to Vogue. 

Diesel, who named his own younger daughter Pauline after Walker less than two years after his death, walked Meadow down the aisle. 

Thornton-Allen was trained at the Stella Adler School of Acting, named for the fearsome teacher whose students included Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro.

He and Meadow traveled extensively during their brief marriage, taking trips to locales ranging from Miami and New York to the Austrian ski resort Lech am Arlberg.

Two years and two months after the wedding, Meadow and Thornton-Allen jointly announced on social media that they were going their separate ways.

'We have come to the agreement to amicably separate. This is truly a united decision,' they insisted three days after Christmas.

'And we sincerely hope everyone can respect our wishes for privacy. We maintain mutual love and respect for one another, and will continue to support each other.'