Peaches Geldof, dead, death, bob Geldof, paula yeats
Peaches Geldof, the daughter
of Bob Geldof and the late Paula Yates has died at the age of 25, the BBC
reported this evening. She was the mother of two young sons and worked as a DJ,
model and television personality.
There were reports that
police were called to her home in Wrotham, Kent, today where her body was
discovered.
Ms Geldof was a prolific
tweeter and the final message that she sent yesterday was a picture of her as a
child with her mother.
Her mother, Paula Yates,
died aged 41 from a heroin overdose in 2000.
Peaches Geldof had two young
sons, 23-month-old Astala and 11-month-old Phaedra who was born on what would
have been her mother Paula Yates’ 54th birthday.
She was 19 when she married
US musician Max Drummey at the Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas in
August 2008.
The couple announced that
they had amicably decided to split in February 2009 before divorcing in 2011.
Ms Geldof married Thomas
Cohen, lead singer of south east London band S.C.U.M, in September 2012 at the
same church in Davington, Kent, where her parents married 26 years earlier. It
was also where her mother’s funeral was held in 2000.
Kent Police said: “Police
were called at 1.35pm on 7 April 2014 to an address near Wrotham following a
report of concern for the welfare of a woman. A woman aged 25 was pronounced
dead by South East Coast Ambulance Service. At this stage, the death is being
treated as an unexplained sudden death. Officers are working to establish the
circumstances around the death.”
In a statement this evening,
Bob Geldof said: “Peaches has died. We are beyond pain. She was the wildest,
funniest, cleverest, wittiest and the most bonkers of all of us. Writing ‘was’
destroys me afresh. What a beautiful child. How is this possible that we will
not see her again? How is that bearable? We loved her and will cherish her
forever. How sad that sentence is. Tom and her sons Astala and Phaedra will
always belong in our family, fractured so often, but never broken. Bob, Jeanne,
Fifi, Pixie and Tiger Geldof.”
Ms Geldof’s husband Tom
Cohen said: “My beloved wife Peaches was adored by myself and her two sons
Astala and Phaedra and I shall bring them up with their mother in their hearts
every day. We shall love her forever.”
Ms Geldof was a young girl
when her mother died tragically from an overdose in 2000 after splitting with
Bob Geldof and forming a relationship with INXS frontman Michael Hutchence.
Hutchence died in 1997.
