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She was due to DJ at Coachella in but cancelled it following the death of her sister, Peaches. She married George Barnett, drummer of These New Puritans, in June in Majorca and the couple has one child together, who was born earlier this year. Tiger, now 25, has remained largely out of the spotlight, though Richard Lowenstein, the director of documentary Mystify: Michael Hutchence, revealed on a podcast that Tiger Lily has not received any money from her father's estate.

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Created with Sketch. Still, just last year, he said in an interview that he had been happier in the last decade than he ever has been: settled with his long-term partner Jeanne Marine , his career going fine, his daughters, Fifi, Peaches , Pixie and Tiger Lily all doing well. But then in April, Peaches, the second eldest of his daughters, was found dead at her home in Kent.

A charismatic, defiant, clever social butterfly, a writer and TV presenter, Peaches seemed to have found happiness when she married and became mother to her two sons, Astala and Phaedra. She certainly wiped the floor with her opponent Katie Hopkins when she appeared on TV a few months before her death, promoting attachment parenting.

Her sons were both under two when she died; she was only So usually I try to write or read. But even then, it will assail you. And it is an assault. Maybe over-bright, and could wind people up the wrong way… I dunno.

I got a letter from a New York cab driver who, when he heard the news, had to pull over and go and have a beer to steady himself. The impact she had on them. The impact of her tiny little life.

Initially, police said she had died of natural causes. I think that people are a certain way. He does not have an addictive nature himself. It made me… too wired, too nervy. You utter twat! I never did anything stronger, though I took heroin once by mistake. He tells me the story of how he took heroin, which is hilarious, but off the record as it involves another singer, who gave him the drugs, then tried to get off with Paula while Geldof was indisposed.

When he is in pain, that pain fills the room. Fifi, his oldest daughter, wrote a piece recently for the Daily Mail in which she discussed her depression. The impact when Peaches died was overwhelming.

It gives them a pain in the arse. And it gives them a pain in the arse when, you know, each other drags them into it. Unfortunately, the Geldofs have played a minor part in the national soap opera for a long time. He takes a breath, almost physically grabs the bit in his teeth again, and off he goes. My kids are admirable people. View all related items in Oxford Reference ».

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