Peaches Geldof wrote a weekly column for the Daily Telegraph from age 14 to 17 and also contributed to the Guardian. Photo: Ian West/PA WireBob Geldof said his family were “beyond pain” after his daughter Peaches was found dead at the age of 25.
The mother-of-two, whose mother was the late TV presenter Paula Yates, was found at her home in Wrotham, Kent, on Monday.
Geldof was a prolific tweeter and the final message she sent on Sunday was a picture of her as a child with her mother, with the message “Me and my mum”.
She had two sons with her second husband, musician Tom Cohen.
Her father said: “She was the wildest, funniest, cleverest, wittiest and the most bonkers of all of us.
“Writing ‘was’ destroys me afresh. What a beautiful child. How is this possible that we will not see her again? How is that bearable?
“Tom and her sons Astala and Phaedra will always belong in our family, fractured so often, but never broken.”
Her husband said: “My beloved wife Peaches was adored by myself and her two sons Astala and Phaedra and I shall bring them up with their mother in their hearts every day. We shall love her forever.”
Peaches was just 11 when her mother died from an accidental heroin overdose in 2000, aged 41.
She was 19 when she married US musician Max Drummey at the Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas in August 2008.
The couple announced that they had decided to split amicably in February 2009 before divorcing in 2011.
How is this possible that we will not see her again? How is that bearable?
She married Cohen, lead singer of southeast London band Scum, in September 2012 at the church in Davington, Kent, where her parents married 26 years earlier. It was also where her mother’s funeral was held.
Kent Police said: “The death is being treated as a non-suspicious, but unexplained, sudden death.
“The local coroner has been informed and a post-mortem is expected to be carried out in the next few days.”
A host of celebrities paid her tribute, including singer Ellie Goulding, model Daisy Lowe, singer Lily Allen, media mogul Simon Cowell, rapper Professor Green and Sharon Osbourne