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TAPE_NUMBER: EN9933 IN_TIME: 10:51:19 LENGTH: 00:46 SOURCES: APTN FILE/MERCURY MUSIC RESTRICTIONS: No re-use/re-sale film/video clips without clearance/No access Internet, music/ performance rights must be cleared. FEED: SCRIPT: xfa UK DOCUMENTARY CASTS DOUBTS ON MICHAEL HUTCHENCE SUICIDE Story: Paula Yates Date: August 17th Location: File PAULA YATES has revealed details of her sex life with late lover MICHAEL HUTCHENCE in an effort to prove his death was more likely a sexgamegonewrong than suicide. She claims in a Channel 4 documentary the INXS singer Hutchence had spoken to her about autoerotic asphyxiation (AEA), in which the air flow is restricted during sex acts to increase the intensity. In the programme 'In Excess: the Death Of Michael Hutchence' being screened on Tuesday night, her doubts about the Australian coroner's verdict of suicide are backed by experts. Wildman Hutchence, who had a child Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily with Yates, was found naked in a Sydney hotel room in November 1997 with a belt around his neck. Dismissing suicide, Yates says: "He would have dressed, he would have written a note, he would have done it as a ritual if he had even thought of killing himself which I don't believe he would ever have done especially not with his responsibility to me and Tiger which he took so seriously. So to be naked and just found like that he must have been doing something else." Asked whether Hutchence had ever suggested AEA which is thought to kill some 200 people each year in Britain Yates admits he had thought "it would be interesting but that he was scared that it would kill one of us". Her interviewer asks: "Did Michael ever choke you, strangle you or tie you up in bed?" practices which many people who practise AEA indulge in. She replies: "He did everything. I told you he's a dangerous boy dangerous, wild. He could have done anything at any time. The only thing he wouldn't have done is just left us." The New South Wales coroner ruled it was suicide after hearing evidence that he had been depressed about a court row involving Yates's other three daughters from her relationship with Bob Geldof. However, after studying the case Professor Stephen Hucker, of McMaster University, Ontario and one of the world's leading authorities on AEA, said: "I have concluded that this is most likely a death due to an act of autoerotic practice that went wrong." SHOTLIST: FILE OF PAULS YATES, MICHAEL HUTCHENCE AND DAUGHTER AT PARIS FASHION SHOWS (OCTOBER 1997) ; FRONT PAGE THE 'SUN' NEWSPAPER (AUGUST 17, 1999) ; VIDEO INXS 'MYSTIFY'?

Source ABCNEWS VideoSource
Title: ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: PAULA YATES
Date: 08/17/1999
Library: APTN
Tape Number: VSAP147532
Content: TAPE_NUMBER: EN9933 IN_TIME: 10:51:19 LENGTH: 00:46 SOURCES: APTN FILE/MERCURY MUSIC RESTRICTIONS: No re-use/re-sale film/video clips without clearance/No access Internet, music/ performance rights must be cleared. FEED: SCRIPT: xfa UK DOCUMENTARY CASTS DOUBTS ON MICHAEL HUTCHENCE SUICIDE Story: Paula Yates Date: August 17th Location: File PAULA YATES has revealed details of her sex life with late lover MICHAEL HUTCHENCE in an effort to prove his death was more likely a sexgamegonewrong than suicide. She claims in a Channel 4 documentary the INXS singer Hutchence had spoken to her about autoerotic asphyxiation (AEA), in which the air flow is restricted during sex acts to increase the intensity. In the programme 'In Excess: the Death Of Michael Hutchence' being screened on Tuesday night, her doubts about the Australian coroner's verdict of suicide are backed by experts. Wildman Hutchence, who had a child Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily with Yates, was found naked in a Sydney hotel room in November 1997 with a belt around his neck. Dismissing suicide, Yates says: "He would have dressed, he would have written a note, he would have done it as a ritual if he had even thought of killing himself which I don't believe he would ever have done especially not with his responsibility to me and Tiger which he took so seriously. So to be naked and just found like that he must have been doing something else." Asked whether Hutchence had ever suggested AEA which is thought to kill some 200 people each year in Britain Yates admits he had thought "it would be interesting but that he was scared that it would kill one of us". Her interviewer asks: "Did Michael ever choke you, strangle you or tie you up in bed?" practices which many people who practise AEA indulge in. She replies: "He did everything. I told you he's a dangerous boy dangerous, wild. He could have done anything at any time. The only thing he wouldn't have done is just left us." The New South Wales coroner ruled it was suicide after hearing evidence that he had been depressed about a court row involving Yates's other three daughters from her relationship with Bob Geldof. However, after studying the case Professor Stephen Hucker, of McMaster University, Ontario and one of the world's leading authorities on AEA, said: "I have concluded that this is most likely a death due to an act of autoerotic practice that went wrong." SHOTLIST: FILE OF PAULS YATES, MICHAEL HUTCHENCE AND DAUGHTER AT PARIS FASHION SHOWS (OCTOBER 1997) ; FRONT PAGE THE 'SUN' NEWSPAPER (AUGUST 17, 1999) ; VIDEO INXS 'MYSTIFY'?
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