Peaches Geldof post-mortem ‘inconclusive’, toxicology tests will be conducted to determine cause of death

Facundo Arrizbalaga/FileA post-morten into the death of Peaches Geldof has proven inconclusive.

Police say an autopsy on Peaches Geldof was inconclusive and toxicology tests will be conducted in an attempt to determine what killed the 25-year-old celebrity.
Geldof was found dead at her home in southeast England on Monday.
Kent Police said a post-mortem examination Wednesday was inconclusive and a toxicology report could take several weeks. Continue.


Geldof was pronounced dead Monday by paramedics who were called to her home in Wrotham, southeast of London. Kent Police said officers were investigating the “unexplained sudden death,” but did not consider it suspicious.

Gareth Fuller/The Associated PressA police investigator carries bin bags in order to search the contents at the home of British celebrity Peaches Geldof in Wrotham, Kent, Britain, 08 April 2014.

Tom L. Phelan/Getty ImagesA general view of Peaches Geldofs' house on April 8, 2014 in Wrotham Heath, United Kingdom.

Tom L. Phelan/Getty ImagesA general view of Peaches Geldofs' house on April 8, 2014 in Wrotham Heath, United Kingdom.

On Tuesday, police clarified that no hard drugs or suicide note were found at the scene of Geldof’s death.
A police inquest may be opened depending on the final results of the post-mortem and toxicology testing, officials say.
Peaches Geldof was the daughter of Irish musician and Band Aid founder Bob Geldof and TV presenter Paula Yates, who died of a drug overdose in 2000. She grew up in the glare of Britain’s press, which reveled in the late-night antics of her teenage years.
More recently she had married for a second time, to musician Tom Cohen, had two young sons and worked as a broadcaster and fashion writer. She said in 2009 that her drug-taking years were behind her.

Getty ImagesPeaches Geldof and husband Thomas Cohen.

Jo Hale/Getty Images; Martin Keene/The Associated PressFifi Trixibell Geldof; Tiger Lilly Geldof; Peaches Geldof; Pixie Geldof; Bob Geldof attends the global premiere for the Live 8 DVD in 2005, at left; Right, Bob Geldof and Paula Yates, who is pictured holding an infant Peaches Geldof, alongside sister Fifi.

“Yeah, I’ve taken drugs. Yes, I have had experiences, and a few of those experiences were unsavoury, not ones I want to repeat, but I was growing up. I wanted the experience,” she told the Guardian in 2009.
“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.”
Geldof lost her own mother, model and TV host Paula Yates, when she was 11 years old. Yates died on Sept. 17, 2000, aged 41, of a heroin overdose that was ruled the result of “an unsophisticated taker of heroin” taking drugs by the London coroner’s office at the time.
The British model and TV presenter leaves behind two small children with husband Thomas Cohen, sons Astala Dylan Willow (born April 21, 2012) and Phaedra Bloom Forever (born April 24, 2013).