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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.

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.

Geldof and Yates divorced in May 1996. On 22 July 1996, Yates gave birth to a daughter, Tiger Lily Hiraani Hutchence. [20]

Evans, Martin (31 October 2000). "Suicide threats of Paula Yates 'drove Hutchence to kill himself' ". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 10 August 2011 . Retrieved 22 May 2010. Whilst married to Geldof, Yates had a year-long affair with American singer Terence Trent D'Arby. [13] [14] She had a six-year long affair with actor Rupert Everett. [15] [16] She also had an affair with Michael Hutchence of INXS, which finally led to the divorce between Paula and Bob.

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Yet in April this year, with the approach of her 40th she said; ''I think the worst is definitely over'', as she embarked on a new career move as agony aunt for a new magazine, Aura. 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 ] Peaches Geldof: Writer and TV presenter dies aged 25". BBC News. 7 April 2014. Archived from the original on 5 May 2018 . Retrieved 9 April 2018. 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] On 17 September 2000, on Pixie's 10th birthday, Yates died at her home in Notting Hill at the age of 41 of a heroin overdose. The coroner ruled that it was not a suicide, but a result of "foolish and incautious" behaviour. [28] [29] Yates was discovered in the presence of her then-four-year-old daughter, Tiger Lily. [30] A friend disclosed during the inquest that Yates had not taken illegal drugs for nearly two years, [31] and the coroner, Paul Knapman, concluded that although the amount Yates had taken would not have killed an addict, "an unsophisticated taker of heroin" like Yates had no tolerance to the drug. [32]