5. Michael Hutchence – Ritz-Carlton, Sydney
Tragic Michael Hutchence was an Australian musician, famous for his band INXS.
Aged just 37, Hutchence was found dead in room 524, at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Double Bay, Sydney (now the Stamford Plaza).
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It was determined by a coroner he had committed suicide by hanging from his belt. His relationship with the British TV presenter Paula Yates was cited as a cause of his depression.
Yates had an affair with Hutchence whilst with Sir Bob Geldof.
Yates eventually took a heroin overdose.
In 2000, Patricia Glassop and Tina Hutchence, Michael's mother and half-sister, gave an interview on "This Morning" asserting that Paula Yates had made threats of harming herself and the baby if Michael Hutchence did not marry her on more than one occasion; and, that they believed she said this again on the morning of his death, directly precipitating his suicide.
Kym Wilson and her then boyfriend Andrew Reyment were the last people to see Michael alive as they left him at 4:50 A.M.; he was still awaiting a phone call from London concerning whether Yates would be able to bring his daughter Tiger to Australia.
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