Peaches Geldof--thewild-child second daughter of Irish singer Bob Geldof who filled the pages of British tabloids with her late-night antics as she partied through the world of fashion and celebrity--was found dead on April 7, 2014.
Geldof, 25, was found at her home in Wrotham in Kent.
She was a British journalist, television presenter, and model. Police say that the death “is being treated as unexplained and sudden,” and a possible suicide.
She had admitted using drugs in the past but said in a 2009 interview that she had quit.
Geldof was only a girl of 11 when her mother Paula Yates, a popular television presenter, died of a drug overdose in 2000, and those who knew her said it hit her extremely hard.
The last tweet she sent on Twitter came on Sunday, when she posted a photograph of herself as a toddler next to her mother along with the caption: “Me and my mum.”
“We are beyond pain,” said her father in a statement. “She was the wildest, funniest, cleverest, wittiest and the most bonkers of all of us.”
“What a beautiful child. How is this possible that we will not see her again? How is that bearable?”
The statement was signed by Bob, Jeanne (his partner), Peaches’ sisters Fifi and Pixie and her half-sister Tiger Geldof.
Geldof was born in 1989 and got involved in a media career early, starting with writing a column for Elle magazine at the age of 15.
At 16 she began contributing to the Telegraph and the Guardian, as well as several television shows.
She was married to musician Thomas Cohen and leaves behind two sons.
In an interview with the Guardian newspaper in 2009, Geldof acknowledged that she used drugs as a teenager but said she had stopped.
“'Yeah, I’ve taken drugs. Yes, I have had experiences, and a few of those experiences were unsavory, not ones I want to repeat, but I was growing up. I wanted the experience,” she told the paper.
“I wasn’t hugely into drugs and I’m sober now,” she added. “I’m not Amy Winehouse. I never have been. I wasn’t a crackhead.”
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The Associated Press contributed to this report.
