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Paula Yates

Profession: TV Presenter
Place/Date of Birth: Colwyn Bay, Conwy, Wales , 24 April 2020
Date of Death: 17 September 2020

Paula Yates will be remembered as much for her private life as her public life. In the 80’s she was a common sight on yoof TV progs like The Tube where she was in her element interviewing rock stars and celebs. However it’s her much publicised marriage to Bob Geldof and affair with the late INXS frontman Michael Hutchence that brought her back into the spotlight in the 90’s.

The sad and wasteful death of Paula Yates rocked the Notting Hill neighbourhood and here we have created some dedicated pages to the life and loves of Paula.

Paula’s Biography
The Days After Paula’s Death

Paula leaves just under ?14k to Tiger Lily - 06/04/01
It has emerged today that Paula Yates left just ?13.956 in her will. She earned a fortune from her TV career and had assets of nearly ?800.000 when she died, however once her debts were paid off only a fraction was left.

It will all go to Tiger Lily her four year old daughter by the late INXS rocker Michael Hutchence, she believed her three other daughters Trixibelle,17, Peaches,12, and 10-year-old Pixie would be well looked after by their father and her ex-husband Sir Bob Geldof.

Also stated in her will, she said that Michael Hutchence parents - who blamed her for his death- should not have access to Tiger Lily without the approval of her two guardians.

Tiger will be well looked after financially as she is the sole beneficiary of her dad’s estate worth ?25million. She is well looked after now by Sir Bob Geldof and lives with him and her sisters.

Tiger sole beneficiary of her fathers fortune - 02/04/01
An Australian court has ruled that Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily, daughter of the late Michael Hutchence, will be the sole beneficiary of his estate.

Arguments had raged over the former INXS singer’s estimated $25 million fortune since he was found dead in a Sydney hotel room, in November 1997. Paula Yates, Tiger’s mother, died last year of a heroin overdose at her Notting Hill home.

02/02/01
Courtney to film Paula Yates’s life Courtney Love is writing a film about Paula Yates in which she intends to star. The American singer and actress, who met Paula just days before the TV presenter’s death, says: ’I was born to play Paula. This is the role of a lifetime and I promise to do her justice.’

Love, the widow of Nirvana icon Kurt Cobain, who committed suicide in 1994, is currently working on a script that will chronicle the TV presenter’s extraordinary life from her teenage years to her untimely death last September.