Police in London have said that the results of the post mortem examination on the body of the television presenter Paula Yates were inconclusive. She was found dead at her home in West London yesterday morning. A police spokesman said that they were now awaiting the results of further tests to establish how exactly she died.
Ms Yates' former husband and the father of three of her children, Bob Geldof, has appealed to the media not to add further to the children's pain. Ms Yates is reported to have been found in bed by her four-year-old daughter. Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily reportedly answered the phone to a family friend and said that she could not wake her mother up. Tiger Lily's father, rock star Michael Hutchence, died in a Sydney hotel room in 1997 in a suspected suicide. It is reported that Bob Geldof has been granted temporary custody of the four-year-old. Mr Geldof already has custody of the three children he had with the TV presenter.
Paula Yates found fame in the 1980s on Channel 4 television's music programme "The Tube" and later starred on "The Big Breakfast". She was married to Bob Geldof, the former lead singer of the Boomtown Rats and the organiser of the Live Aid concert, for 18 years. They split up in 1995 after Ms Yates became involved with Michael Hutchence, the then lead singer with Australian rock band, INXS. Mr Hutchence’ death came soon after Ms Yates lost custody of her three elder daughters, Fifi Trixibelle, 17, Peaches 11, and Pixie 10, to their father, Bob Geldof.
Paula Yates was the daughter of Jess Yates, who presented a religious TV show, “Stars on Sunday”. However, Ms Yates said that in 1997 that DNA testing showed that Hugie Green, the star of the game show "Opportunity Knocks" was her biological father. Her mother, however, denied it.
