UK News 18-09-2000 Paula Yates Found Dead who: Paula Yates what: Found dead at her home where: LONDON when: Yesterday snippet: "Tragic Paula Yates died yesterday and was found slumped in her bed by daughter Tiger Lily," reports John Kay in The Sun. "The four-year-old is now an orphan - her rock star dad Michael Hutchence killed himself in 1997". Tiger Lily "answered the telephone when a friend called Miss Yates," says The Telegraph`s report, "and was playing near her mother`s body when the woman arrived at the flat in Notting Hill, west London, shortly after 10am." "An empty vodka bottle and a partly empty bottle of barbiturates - believed to be painkillers - lay near her body," claims The Mirror. "There were traces of heroin and cannabis on a bedside table. She had choked on her own vomit." An ambulance and police were called but Ms Yates was pronounced dead at the scene. Police said they were treating the death as suspicious until the results of a post-mortem examination at Westminster mortuary are known later today. "In April 1998 Paula was admitted to a psychiatric hospital with depression," recalls The Express, "and two months later, after losing custody of [her daughters] Fifi, Peaches and Pixie to [ex-husband Bob] Geldof, she was admitted to a rehabilitation clinic after trying to hang herself in an apparent suicide bid." "It doesn`t require much imagination to understand the pain," said Bob Geldof in a statement asking for privacy. "Please do nothing to add to that. Leave the children with their loss." "I can`t believe it," said Kell Hutchence, Tiger Lily`s grandfather. "I`ve just been speaking with a friend in London who was telling me how well she was doing. I don`t know what`s going to happen to poor Tiger Lily." [... more]

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