Live Aid founder Bob Geldof said his family was “beyond pain” at the death of his socialite* daughter Peaches at the age of 25 on Monday. Police were called to her secluded* home outside Wrotham in Kent, southeast England, but she was pronounced dead at the scene. Her death was being treated as “unexplained and sudden” but non-suspicious, police said. Peaches, a mother of two young sons herself, was just 11 when her mother, television presenter Paula Yates, died of a heroin overdose* at age 41 in 2000. In her last Twitter message to her 190,000 followers on Sunday, Peaches posted a photograph of her as a baby being held by her mother, with the words, “Me and my mum.” Her father Geldof said of his second daughter: “Peaches has died. We are beyond pain.” Peaches was the second daughter of Geldof and Paula Yates. Their first was Fifi Trixibelle, and Peaches has a half-sister, named Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily, her mother’s daughter with late INXS frontman Michael Hutchence. Peaches’ second husband Tom Cohen, the singer in the now-disbanded* group S.C.U.M, 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.” She married her first husband, rock musician Max Drummey, in 2008 but they separated the following year. Peaches wed Cohen two years ago in the same church in Kent where her parents were married and where her mother’s funeral was held. Peaches had a media career writing for British newspapers and presenting celebrity-driven TV shows.(SD-Agencies) |