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It was a stance - in which she used a television programme to plead her cause a la Diana - which dashed much of the public sympathy which followed the double blow of her lover's death and the revelation about her parentage. Later that year, while Yates and Hutchence were in Australia, the children's nannie found opium in a Smarties tube in their home. The couple claim the drugs were planted and Yates was arrested but not charged, but the incident allowed Geldof to return to court and win temporary custody of the children. The passions of Paula Yates". Irish Independent. Archived from the original on 16 February 2009 . Retrieved 13 March 2023. People spoke to her in the manner in which she appeared on television. They felt they could say things to her that were kind of sassy, and she’d go to me: ‘Did you hear what he said?’”

Bozza, Anthony (2005). INXS Story To Story: The Official Autobiography. Bantam Books. ISBN 978-0-593-05517-5. The woman once described as "a smart girl who made a career out of pretending to be an airhead" was said to have spiralled into despair; lonely, afraid of the future, and nursing an increasingly fractured sense of self. Michael Hutchence planned to leave Paula Yates before death, Kirk Pengilly says". The Sydney Morning Herald. 24 February 2014. Archived from the original on 9 April 2018 . Retrieved 8 April 2018.In 1979, Yates began her career as a music journalist with a column called "Natural Blonde" in the Record Mirror, shortly after posing for Penthouse magazine. She first came to prominence in the 1980s, as co-presenter (with Jools Holland) of the Channel 4 pop music programme The Tube, having been a minor co-host of BBC TV chat shows with presenter Terry Wogan. She also appeared alongside her friend Jennifer Saunders in 1987 for a spoof documentary on pop group Bananarama. [ citation needed] An only child, Yates wrote that, as a girl, she would sleep outside her mother's door in case she left in the night. The man she believed to be her father, the one-time presenter of Yorkshire Television's religious programme, Stars On Sunday, Jess Yates, left the family when Paula was eight, and her mother later admitted to a string of affairs.

Her separation from Bob Geldof is likely to have been terribly painful, not in the least because it was so highly publicised. Soon after Yates's death, Geldof assumed foster custody of Tiger Lily so that she could be brought up with her three older half-sisters, Fifi, Peaches and Pixie. Her aunt, Tina Hutchence, the sister of Michael Hutchence, was denied permission by the judge to apply for Tiger Lily to live with her in California. [33] In 2007, Geldof adopted Tiger Lily and changed her surname to Geldof; [34] as of 2019, Tiger's legal name was Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily Hutchence Geldof. [35]Yates met Geldof in the early days of the Boomtown Rats. They began a romantic relationship in 1976 when she flew to Paris to surprise him while the band was playing there. Their first daughter, Fifi, was born in 1983. [11] After ten years together, Yates and Geldof married on 31 August 1986 in Las Vegas, with Simon Le Bon of Duran Duran acting as best man. The couple then had two more daughters, Peaches [12] on 13 March 1989, and Pixie on 17 September 1990.

I am sure her divorce from Bob Geldof was not pleasant, but she was already with someone else by that time so that would have softened the blow,'' he said. In 1996, their daughter, Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily, was born. Despite Paula's claims that the couple were to have been married in January 1998, close Australian friends have said that was never on Hutchence's agenda. Yates' turbulent loves". BBC News. 17 September 2000. Archived from the original on 12 March 2012 . Retrieved 22 May 2010. A year later, she was admitted to a psychiatric hospital with depression. She lost custody of Fifi, Peaches and Pixie, and two weeks later apparently tried to hang herself. She was then admitted to a rehabilitation clinic. Legal wrangling over her lover's estate continued, and Hutchence's father, Kelland, made an abortive attempt to win custody of his grand-daughter. Yates embarked on a series of ill-advised affairs, including one with a former heroin addict, who later sold his story to the newspapers, claiming that she slept with Hutchence's ashes.

In December 1997, a few weeks after Hutchence's death and while Yates was fighting for custody of her daughter with Hutchence, Yates suffered another blow when a DNA test result confirmed tabloid media reports that Jess Yates, who had died in April 1993, was not her biological father. A paternity test proved that the talent show host Hughie Green, who had died six months before Hutchence, was her biological father. [24] On 22 November 1997, Hutchence was found dead in a hotel room in Sydney. The official verdict into his death said that he committed suicide by hanging. [21] Yates wrote in her police statement that Hutchence was "frightened and couldn't stand a minute more without his baby". During their phone conversations on the morning of his suicide, he had said, "I don't know how I'll live without Tiger". Yates also wrote that Geldof had threatened them repeatedly, saying: "Don't forget, I am above the law." [22] Yates became distraught, refusing to accept the coroner's verdict of suicide and insisting that it was a case of auto-erotic asphyxiation. [23] She eventually sought psychiatric treatment. Yates, battling mental health and addiction issues, sought psychiatric treatment following the death of Hutchence which resulted in her ex-husband Geldof securing full custody of the couple’s three daughters. “When Michael died I was tipped over the edge,” Yates once said. “I was beyond grief.” Devastatingly, just a couple of years later, on her daughter Pixie’s 10th birthday, some 20 years ago today, Yates died at her home in London of an accidental heroin overdose on September 17, 2000. Silverman, Rosa (13 March 2023). "Paula Yates: the untold story by the woman who knew her best". The Telegraph . Retrieved 14 March 2023. Clinton, Jane (13 March 2023). "Paula Yates: How Channel 4 documentary explores her life, death, and relationship with Michael Hutchence". iNews . Retrieved 14 March 2023.

Tiger Lily to live with Sir Bob". BBC News. 19 December 2000. Archived from the original on 13 January 2020 . Retrieved 22 May 2010. An amazing evening of "Songs & Stories" (with Q&A) by two artists with over 110 years in the arts between them.In June 1998, Geldof won full custody of the couple's three daughters after Yates attempted suicide. [25] She met Kingsley O'Keke during her stay in treatment, but the pair broke up after a six-week romance. O'Keke later sold his story to a tabloid newspaper. [26] [27] Death [ edit ] Had Paula lived, Brewin believes she would have done more serious television. She may well have blown the whistle on the darker goings-on of the time. “She was interested in things like the way women were treated. She would have loved the #MeToo movement, that would have been right up her street.”