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Peaches Geldof Reportedly Died of a Heroin Overdose

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Peaches in early April.By Fred Duval/Getty Images.

Three weeks after Peaches Geldof was mysteriously found dead at the age of 25, The Times of London is reporting that the TV presenter, writer, and model died of a heroin overdose. Making the report even sadder is the fact that Geldof’s own mother, Paula Yates, also died tragically of a heroin overdose, in 2000. The Times draws other parallels between the sad events—noting that Paula and Peaches were both mothers to young children when they died. And like Paula, who was caring for Peaches’s sister Tiger Lily at the time of her overdose, Peaches was reportedly caring for her 11-month-old son Phaedra at the time of her own passing.

Additional details, per The Times:

Police discovered no evidence of drugs paraphernalia in the house, leading to speculation that items may have been removed before the property was searched. Roger Hatch, the coroner, waited for results of the toxicology tests to determine if Ms Geldof had died of an overdose before deciding to open an inquest after a post-mortem examination failed to establish the cause of death.

The results will be announced by Detective Chief Inspector Paul Fotheringham during a brief hearing in Gravesend, Kent, this afternoon. Police used drugs sniffer dogs during the search of the house and examined the contents of rubbish bags.

Mr Hatch, the coroner for northwest Kent, will adjourn the inquest until the end of July to ensure that Ms Geldof’s husband Thomas Cohen, a rock singer, and her father Bob Geldof, the former singer of The Boomtown Rats and founder of Live Aid, are able to attend the full hearing.

What happened to the usual items used when smoking or injecting heroin is likely to be a focus of the on-going investigation. It is not known who supplied the young mother with the drugs.

In 2012, Geldof spoke to Elle magazine about how the birth of her two sons helped her get over her mother’s death. “His [oldest son Astala’s] birth was like a rebirth for me, and I honestly never thought anything in my life would ever be good.”

Hours before she was found dead, Peaches cryptically posted a photo of her with her mother on Instagram, captioned “me and my mum.”