Bob Geldof and Paula Yates with their daughters, Fifi Trixibelle and Peaches, in 1989. LONDON - OCTOBER 27: Fifi Trixibell Geldof; Tiger Lilly Geldof; Peaches Geldof; Pixie Geldof; Bob Geldof attends the global premiere for the Live 8 DVD, featuring live footage of the MAKEpovertyHISTORY awareness-raising concerts on July 2, at Vue West End on October 27, 2005 in London, England. John Lennon was shot dead by Mark David Chapman when he was 40, outside his New York apartment, while Elvis Presley was practically a tribal elder by the time he died of a heart attack aged 42. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. The mother of rock star Michael Hutchence (left) feared his daughter Tiger Lily (centre) would be harmed by his girlfriend Paula Yates (right) after his death, Hutchence's mother Patricia Glassop (left with her son) became increasingly concerned Ms Yates would harm the couple's baby. Paula Yates and ex-husband Bob Geldof with their three daughters Fifi Trixie-Belle (right), Peaches (left) and Pixie, during a visit to EuroDisney in 1992 PA Peaches Geldof - a life in pictures In a 2013 interview with Elle magazine, Geldof explained how difficult the process of coming to terms with her mother's death was: I remember the day my mother died, and it's still hard to talk about it. ', 'There is no concern for the welfare of the child. In 2017 Tiger Lily was living in New York studying acting. Ms Yates died in 2000 of a heroin overdose and Mr Geldof was awarded custody of Tiger Lily, who is now aged 22. They became a couple in 1976 when she flew to Paris to surprise him while the band was playing there. Photo: Frank McGrath, Denise Calnan Twitter "It’s confusing and it makes you feel quite lost within yourself. Paula’s idyllic time in that cottage on the coast lasted for only eight months, though, before she decided to go back to her house in Notting Hill. An inquest into Hutchence's death found he had committed suicide. Gerry says: “I believe her death was definitely accidental. He was desperate to keep her away from her so-called friends and the destructive influences.”. "I don't remember my parents together, ever," she said. I couldn't express anything because I was just numb to it all. The INXS frontman's naked body was found in a hotel room at the exclusive Ritz-Carlton in Double Bay, a harbourside suburb of Sydney, in an apparent suicide November 1997. 1995: Paula leaves Geldof for Hutchence, who dumps model Helena Christensen. But, he was also, apparently, suffering with depression after a freak accident left him with compromised senses of taste and smell, and would later add Prozac to the list of drugs he was taking. The former presenter of C4's 'The Tube' and 'The Big Breakfast' was found dead in her home on the 17th of September 2000; Paula Yates had suffered badly with depression after the death of her lover, INXS singer Michael Hutchence, and was found in bed surrounded by a lethal cocktail of heroin, vodka and pills. I didn't start grieving for my mother properly until I was maybe 16.". In 2017 Pixie married model and musician George Barnett. 1985: Meets INXS frontman Michael Hutchence, interviewing him for The Tube, and says: “I’m going to have that boy.” Starts showing up at his gigs. "[17] Her widower Thomas Cohen said in a statement: "My beloved wife Peaches was adored by myself and her two sons Astala and Phaedra and I shall bring them up with their mother in their hearts every day. [21] They were married on 8 September 2012, at the same church in Davington, Kent, where her parents married 26 years earlier, and also where her mother's funeral was held in 2000. 1967: Parents split when she is eight, and Jess leaves. She reveals: “At that time Bob wasn’t earning any money. A few months later, while she and Hutchence were away with Tiger, the nanny, at home with Fifi, Peaches and Pixie, found a stash of heroin and opium, apparently hidden in sweet tubs, along with photos and sex toys. After her mother died in 2000, Fifi turned to alcohol and drugs to numb her feelings. Paula Yates by Ray Setterfield August 31 , 1986 — Television presenter Paula Yates was married on this day to pop star Bob Geldof , former lead singer with the Boomtown Rats and inspiration behind the Live Aid charity. “She dabbled when she was extremely young, but after that nothing. What Britain's shrinking economy means for your job and your savings (and... Is YOUR business ready? She seemed set to be a short-lived kind of brightness, a burst of colour doomed to fizzle out. I was a generally happy child and all of a sudden I wasn’t and I didn’t know why. The mother-of-two was found at their home by her husband Thomas Cohen after dying from a heroin overdose in 2014, just as her mother Paula Yates had when Peaches was 11. Peaches Geldof was born in London on 13 March 1989,[6] the second daughter of Bob Geldof and Paula Yates and a granddaughter of Hughie Green. I wouldn’t have had children if I didn’t want the privilege of bringing them up and I wanted to keep my kids away from this decadent world Paula had fallen into,” he said. She was, to put it mildly, silly for him - he called her his "soulmate"; she described him as the "Taj Mahal of crotches" - and threw herself into his world of clubs, drugs, parties and sexual experimentation. Her death, the coroner said, was the result of "foolish and incautious" behaviour; an accidental overdose. She wrote and presented her own documentary TV programme, Peaches Geldof: Teenage Spirit in 2005, which was followed up with Peaches Geldof: Teen America, which aired on Sky One in the UK on 1 March 2006. 1973: Age 14, she is a regular on the London club scene. She made repeated efforts to refocus her life, but would then relapse into despair. Top doctor shortage is risking 'catastrophe': Hospitals urgently need more consultants as they face huge... UK coronavirus infections rise by 32% in a week to 16,982 with another 67 fatalities taking death toll to... Labour would shut down the UK again and again over the winter to control coronavirus, senior figures admit. Paula and Hutchence insisted the drugs had been planted, and indeed that their house had been bugged. They paint a picture of a doting mum who had found peace and contentment on the East Sussex coast, away from her old druggie ways in London. On Wednesday coming, November 22, it will be 54 years since John F Kennedy was assassinated. [17], On 5 August 2008, Geldof married Max Drummey, an American musician from the band Chester French, at the Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas. Instead, she found purpose and security in him, and the life they built together, transforming herself from wild child to earth mother, but without losing her sense of fun; "Paula flirts with everyone," was one friend's verdict. She had started taking heroin again in February 2014 and 6.9 grams (1⁄4 oz) of the drug was found in the house.