THE bitter custody battle over rock star Michael Hutchence and Paula Yates's daughter Tiger Lily has been dropped, it was reported yesterday. The Hutchence family has given up it's attempt to gain control over the two-year old.
But according to friends, the riff between Yates and the Hutchences is unlikely to heal. Kelland Hutchence, the father of the INXS singer was hanged himself at the age of 37 in November, 1997, launched a legal action last September when Paula was being treated in a London clinic after a suicide attempt.
She also had formed a relationship with a drug addict patient. Mr Hutchence, 66, said he wanted to remove Tiger Lily from what he considered to be a potentially destructive influence. But now he says he is not pursuing the case.
"I've done what I can do to explain this to Paula but so far she hasn't shown any signs of understanding my actions," he told Britian's Mail On Sunday newspaper. "It's all in the past now as far as I am concerned."
Paula, who is understood to be negotiating sveral multi-million dollar Australian TV deals, certainly looked a more contented woman when she was spotted strolling in a London park with Tiger Lily last week.
Paula, 39, who had planned to settle in Sydney with Michael Hutchence and her children, recently was given joint custody of her three daughters from her marriage to Bob Geldof.
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