16th November, 1998
Rocker Sir Bob Geldof became the first rock and roll saint when he organized Live Aid in 1985. If only his personal life ran as smoothly.
Geldof has spent reent years involved in a love triangle, a bitter custody dispute, one suicide and another attempted suicide. Last month it was revealed that early in the summer, Geldof, 45 and now a London
deejay, had won primary custody in London of his three daughters (Fifi Trixibelle, 15, Peaches, 9 and Pixie, 8) by his ex-wife, TV personality Paula Yates, who dumped him for INXS singer Michael Hutchence four years
ago.
Yates has said that Hutchence's suicide in Australia last year might have been prevented if Geldof hadn't refused to allow her to take their two younger girls (along with Yates and Hutchence's own daughter Heavenly Hiranni Tiger Lily, now 2) to see Hutchence; this summer, after the custody ruling, Yates reportedly also tried to take her own life. "If my life's a soap opera," Geldof said recently, "I just stumble along from one episode to the next."
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