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==Personal life== According to ''[[People (magazine)|People]]'', Hutchence's "public brawls and onetime open drug use" led London tabloids to dub him the "wild man of rock".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://people.com/archive/inx-plicable-vol-48-no-23/|title=Inx-Plicable|first=Steve|last=Dougherty|work=People|date=8 December 1997|access-date=9 January 2018|archive-date=9 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180109181043/http://people.com/archive/inx-plicable-vol-48-no-23/|url-status=live}}</ref> He was romantically linked to Australian singer and actress [[Kylie Minogue]],<ref>{{Cite news|last=McLuckie|first=Kirsty|title=Dating Danger|work=The Scotsman|location=UK|date=23 January 2003|url=http://news.scotsman.com/kylieminogue/Call-it-chemistry-Kylie-Minogue.2293601.jp|access-date=26 January 2006|archive-date=19 September 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110919181621/http://news.scotsman.com/kylieminogue/Call-it-chemistry-Kylie-Minogue.2293601.jp|url-status=live}}</ref> American singer [[Belinda Carlisle]],<ref>{{cite news |title=Confessions of an 80s pop diva |url=https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/confessions-of-an-80s-pop-diva/news-story/b51c354093c58117e919ac1472bcd76c |work=The Sunday Telegraph |date=6 February 2011}}</ref><ref name="Carlisle">{{cite book |last1=Carlisle |first1=Belinda |author-link1=Belinda Carlisle |title=Lips Unsealed: A Memoir |year=2010 |publisher=Crown Publishing Group |location=New York |isbn=978-0-307-46349-4}}</ref> Danish model [[Helena Christensen]]<ref>{{cite book|title=INXS: Story to Story: The Official Autobiography|author=INXS |first2=Anthony |last2=Bozza|publisher=Atria|page=225 |year=2006|isbn=978-0-7432-8404-2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MxTMEwwCIK8C&lpg=PT243&dq=Helena%20Christensen&pg=PT225<!-- don't remove lpg - that breaks preview-->|access-date=21 August 2010}}</ref> and Australian actress [[Kym Wilson]].<ref>{{cite news| url= https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/sydney-confidential/kym-wilson-on-the-death-of-michael-hutchence-and-the-turning-point-in-my-life/news-story/25f1d831a7b14aa0ca91ef8be2dbb566 |title=We're for Sydney |work=The Daily Telegraph (Sydney) |access-date=16 October 2018}}</ref> In August 1992, Hutchence and Christensen were riding their bicycles at night in [[Copenhagen]] when he refused to move for a taxi.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/michael-hutchence-changed-after-vicious-attack-20140222-338t7.html|title=Michael Hutchence changed after vicious attack|last=Morris|first=Linda|date=23 February 2014|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|access-date=13 May 2017|archive-date=9 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170509013437/http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/michael-hutchence-changed-after-vicious-attack-20140222-338t7.html|url-status=live}}</ref> They were eating pizza when, unbeknown to him, the taxi tried to get through the narrow street but "didn't beep its horn or anything".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mamamia.com.au/michael-hutchence-movie/ | title="He went very strange." After Michael Hutchence was coward-punched, he immediately changed |date=2 December 2019 |access-date=10 July 2022 |archive-date=21 November 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221121062219/https://www.mamamia.com.au/michael-hutchence-movie/ | url-status=live }}</ref> The taxi driver assaulted Hutchence, causing him to fall backwards and hit his head on the pavement; he suffered a [[fractured skull]].<ref name="rockstar">{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/the-death-of-a-rock-star-1154565.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220512/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/the-death-of-a-rock-star-1154565.html |archive-date=12 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=The Death Of a Rock Star|date=5 April 1998|work=[[The Independent]]|location=London}}</ref> Hutchence did not immediately seek medical assistance for the injury and waited several days before seeing a doctor. He was left with [[brain damage]] and almost completely lost his sense of smell, as well as losing a significant amount of his sense of taste.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.sky.com/story/inxs-star-michael-hutchence-and-the-secret-he-took-to-his-grave-11838007|title=INXS star Michael Hutchence 'had permanent brain damage'|last=Minelle|first=Bethany|date=29 December 2019|work=Sky News|access-date=22 November 2022|archive-date=22 November 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221122221915/https://news.sky.com/story/inxs-star-michael-hutchence-and-the-secret-he-took-to-his-grave-11838007|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Time Out">{{cite web| url= http://www.au.timeout.com/sydney/timein/features/1275/5-michael-hutchence|title=A shining star on stage, a rampant hedonist in bed β his was a life in excess|date=17 February 2014|work=[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out Sydney]]| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140427204722/http://www.au.timeout.com/sydney/timein/features/1275/5-michael-hutchence|archive-date=27 April 2014|url-status=dead|access-date=27 April 2014}}</ref> The injury led to periods of depression and increased levels of aggression, and he had still not fully recovered after two weeks in a Copenhagen hospital. According to INXS bandmate Beers, Hutchence brandished a knife and threatened to kill him during the 1993 recording of ''[[Full Moon, Dirty Hearts]]''. Beers recalled, "Over those six weeks, Michael threatened or physically confronted nearly every member of the band."<ref name="Bozza">{{cite book |last1=Bozza |first1=Anthony |author-link1=Anthony Bozza |last2=INXS |title=INXS: Story to Story: The Official Autobiography |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OWo6lAEACAAJ |access-date=9 December 2010 |year=2005 |publisher=[[Bantam Press]] ([[Transworld (company)|Transworld]]) |location=London |isbn=978-0-7432-8404-2 |pages=212, 225}} Note: [online] link is a description of book.</ref> In the mid-1990s, Hutchence became romantically involved with Welsh television presenter [[Paula Yates]].<ref name="MSNChristensen">{{cite news|url=http://music.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=290449 |title=Michael Hutchence and Helena Christensen (1991β1995) |publisher=ninemsn Pty Ltd |access-date=10 December 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720113237/http://music.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=290449 |archive-date=20 July 2011}}</ref> They met in 1985, during an interview for the British TV program ''[[The Tube (1982 TV series)|The Tube]]''. Yates interviewed him again in 1994 for her ''[[Big Breakfast]]'' show, and their affair was soon uncovered by the British press.<ref name="Simmonds" /> At the time, Yates was married to [[the Boomtown Rats]] singer and [[Live Aid]] organiser [[Bob Geldof]].<ref name="Bedell">{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/baby-baby-baby-paula-yates-the-rock-chick-who-married-bob-geldof-and-interviews-people-in-bed-has-set-herself-up-as-an-expert-on-motherhood-is-she-serious-or-is-she-just-flirting-with-it-the-way-she-does-with-everything-else-1475902.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220512/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/baby-baby-baby-paula-yates-the-rock-chick-who-married-bob-geldof-and-interviews-people-in-bed-has-set-herself-up-as-an-expert-on-motherhood-is-she-serious-or-is-she-just-flirting-with-it-the-way-she-does-with-everything-else-1475902.html |archive-date=12 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Baby, Baby, Baby: Paula Yates, the rock chick who married Bob Geldof and interviews people in bed, has set herself up as an expert on motherhood. Is she serious, or is she just flirting with it, the way she does with everything else? |last1=Beddell |first1=Geraldine |newspaper=[[The Independent]] |publisher=Independent Print Limited |date=28 February 1993 |access-date=10 December 2010 |location=London}}</ref> Media scrutiny was intense, and Hutchence assaulted a photographer who had followed them. Yates's separation from Geldof in February 1995 sparked a public and at times bitter [[custody battle]] over their daughters. Yates and Geldof divorced in May 1996.<ref name="BBCSep2000">{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/929725.stm |title=Yates' turbulent loves |work=BBC News |date=17 September 2000 |access-date=10 December 2010 |archive-date=2 January 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102070342/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/929725.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> On 22 July 1996, Yates gave birth to her daughter with Hutchence, [[Tiger Lily Hutchence Geldof|Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily]].<ref name="HutchenceGlossop">{{cite book |last1=Hutchence |first1=Tina |last2=Glossop |first2=Patricia |title=Just a Man: The Real Michael Hutchence |access-date=11 December 2010 |date=1 July 2000 |publisher=[[Sidgwick & Jackson]] |location=London |isbn=0-283-06356-4 |chapter=10: Tiger Lily |chapter-url=http://www.michaelhutchenceinfo.com/JAM_chapter10.htm |archive-date=19 February 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110219102746/http://www.michaelhutchenceinfo.com/JAM_chapter10.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> In September 1996, Yates and Hutchence made headlines when they were arrested for suspicion of [[drug possession]] after the family nanny reportedly found a small amount of [[opium]] in a shoebox underneath their bed. The case was dropped due to lack of evidence.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Inx-Plicable|url=http://people.com/archive/inx-plicable-vol-48-no-23/|magazine=People|last=Dougherty|first=Steve|access-date=8 January 2018|date=8 December 1997|archive-date=9 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180109181043/http://people.com/archive/inx-plicable-vol-48-no-23/|url-status=live}}</ref> Paula Yates died on 17 September 2000 of an accidental heroin overdose; she was discovered in the presence of her and Hutchence's then four-year-old daughter.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2014/04/11/peaches-geldof-died-next-to-her-baby/|title=Peaches Geldof died next to her baby|date=11 April 2014|access-date=13 January 2020|archive-date=13 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200113075533/https://www.mercurynews.com/2014/04/11/peaches-geldof-died-next-to-her-baby/|url-status=live}}</ref> Soon after Yates's death, Geldof assumed foster custody of their daughter so that she could be brought up with her three older half-sisters, Fifi, [[Peaches Geldof|Peaches]] and [[Pixie Geldof|Pixie]].<ref>{{Cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1078627.stm | work=BBC News | title=Tiger Lily to live with Sir Bob | date=19 December 2000 | access-date=22 May 2010 | archive-date=13 January 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200113081810/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1078627.stm | url-status=live }}</ref> In 2007, their daughter was adopted by Geldof.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/celebrity/tiger-lily-hutchence-19-looks-like-the-spitting-image-of-late-father/news-story/9e0dd20abe1ba60eadd675e6eaf05bc7|title=Tiger Lily Hutchence is all grown up|date=20 September 2015|newspaper=Herald Sun}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/geldof-blames-decision-of-family-courts-for-daughters-pain-30689924.html|title=Geldof blames decision of family courts for daughters' pain|website=Irish Independent|date=24 October 2014 |access-date=13 January 2020|archive-date=13 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200113075137/https://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/geldof-blames-decision-of-family-courts-for-daughters-pain-30689924.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.msn.com/en-au/entertainment/celebrity/michael-hutchences-daughter-tiger-lily-22-has-been-ignored-by-the-rock-stars-estate-as-she-is-discovered-living-in-a-london-squat-after-receiving-a-dollar900-inheritance/ar-AADODxc|title=Michael Hutchence's daughter Tiger Lily, 22, has been 'ignored' by the rock star's estate β as she is discovered 'living in a London squat after receiving a $900 inheritance'|publisher=MSN|access-date=13 January 2020|archive-date=13 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200113080424/https://www.msn.com/en-au/entertainment/celebrity/michael-hutchences-daughter-tiger-lily-22-has-been-ignored-by-the-rock-stars-estate-as-she-is-discovered-living-in-a-london-squat-after-receiving-a-dollar900-inheritance/ar-AADODxc|url-status=live}}</ref>
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