Paula Yates Found Dead in London
L O N D O N, Sept. 17 -- Television personality PaulaYates has died, her former husband, singer Sir Bob Geldof, said in a statement released today.
“We are all so sad. The loss for all the children isinsupportable,” Geldof said in the brief statement read out onSky television.
Police would say only that they were investigating the deathof a woman in west London.
“We were called by the ambulance service to St Luke’s Mewsat 10:27 a.m. A doctor at the scene confirmed herdeath at about 11:30 a.m.” said a spokesman at Scotland Yard,London’s police headquarters.
“We won’t know the causes of her death until after the postmortem. It’s routine to treat cases like this as suspicious.”
Yates, 40, found fame in the 1980s on the Channel 4 musicprogramme The Tube and later starred on The Big Breakfast onthe same channel. She had three daughters with Geldof.
Hutchence-Geldof Triangle Yates also had a child with Australian rock star MichaelHutchence, who was found hanged in a hotel room in Sydney in1997 in what was later ruled as a suicide. He was 37.
Authorities concluded he took his own life in a drug-andalcohol-fuelled depression over a bitter custody battle betweenYates and Geldof, the former lead singer of the chart-toppingBoomtown Rats.
Only in June, Yates had won libel damages in court cases inLondon and Sydney over magazine and book allegations aboutHutchence.
She accepted an apology and undisclosed damages to end thelibel action she had launched over the allegations that shebecame pregnant to entrap Hutchence into a permanentrelationship.
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