# Paula Yates is dead! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 17, 2000, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paula-yates-is-dead/33485 "2000-09-17T12:22:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2000, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paula-yates-is-dead/33485/1 "2000-09-17T12:22:32Z")
[BBC story](http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_929000/929005.stm) Poor li’l Tiger Lily … ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2000, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paula-yates-is-dead/33485/2 "2000-09-17T13:40:42Z")
Not to mention Fifi Trixibelle, Peaches and Pixie. A sad story but not perhaps unexpected, considering her recent past. ---
**Author:** ![Damhna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@Damhna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damhna)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2000, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paula-yates-is-dead/33485/3 "2000-09-17T14:35:57Z")
Thats too bad for the kids. Didnt she collapse at home a while back too? I cant say anything nice about Ms.Yates so Ill say nothing ---
**Author:** ![That\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e79b87/32.png) [@That\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Girl)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2000, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paula-yates-is-dead/33485/4 "2000-09-17T14:50:53Z")
That’s a rough one. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2000, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paula-yates-is-dead/33485/5 "2000-09-17T15:51:56Z")
> [@](#): > > She had three children with Bob Geldof - Fifi Trixibelle, 17, Peaches Honeyblossom, 10, and Pixie, seven. > Miss Yates also leaves a four-year-old daughter, Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily, by Michael Hutchence. Of course this is a tragedy and all that. But what the hell is up with these names they came up with?? I’m surprised they were allowed to register some of these names. ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2000, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paula-yates-is-dead/33485/6 "2000-09-17T19:58:00Z")
So much of her life she made public property. Famous for being famous. She had the wealth, the fame, the looks to some extent and a whole lot more than all the sad, lost ‘no-bodies’ whose suicides go unreported every day. I guess there will be loads of prurient, invented stories by greedy publicity seekers wanting their 15 minutes in the Sunday filthies next week. It’s just a pointless waste. ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2000, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paula-yates-is-dead/33485/7 "2000-09-17T23:12:32Z")
Never understood the fast lane; knew only a little of her through dubious bio’s, but have to assume she did her best: most people do. Mostly sorry for her children, and for the lost chances. No judgments made, just grief for life and potential lost. Veb ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2000, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paula-yates-is-dead/33485/8 "2000-09-17T23:21:00Z")
I have to say this news doesn’t really surprise me . The poor kids . Having to deal with the loss of their mother and then in the future they will have to read all the stuff that the fleet street muckrackers are undoubtedly going to bring up .