UK Television personality Paula Yates has died, her former husband, singer Sir Bob Geldof, said in a statement released on September 17, reported ABC news online.
“We are all so sad. The loss for all the children is insupportable,” Geldof said in the brief statement read out on Sky television.
Police would say only that they were investigating the death of a woman in west London.
“We were called by the ambulance service to St Luke’s Mews at 10:27 am. A doctor at the scene confirmed her death at about 11:30 am” said a spokesman at Scotland Yard, London’s police headquarters.
“We won’t know the causes of her death until after the post mortem. It’s routine to treat cases like this as suspicious.”
Yates, 40, found fame in the 1980s on the Channel 4 music program The Tube and later starred on The Big Breakfast on the same channel. She had three daughters with Geldof.
Meanwhile, those living in the US might remember Yates more as the woman who bore a child with Australian rock star Michael Hutchence, who was found hanged in a hotel room in Sydney in 1997 in what was later ruled as a suicide. He was 37.
Authorities concluded he took his own life in a drug-and alcohol-fuelled depression over a bitter custody battle between Yates and Geldof, the former lead singer of the chart-topping Boomtown Rats.
Only in June, Yates had won libel damages in court cases in London and Sydney over magazine and book allegations about Hutchence.
She accepted an apology and undisclosed damages to end the libel action she had launched over the allegations that she became pregnant to entrap Hutchence into a permanent relationship – Albawaba.com.
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