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Mar 30, 2019 · Former detective inspector Mark Smith reveals graphic details about the investigation, and explains how police determined the death was an act of deliberate suicide, and not accidental as claimed by Mr Hutchence’s then-partner Paula Yates.
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Born on January 22, 1960, in Sydney, Australia, Michael Kelland John Hutchence was an introverted child. His mother Patricia Glassop was a make-up artist, and his father Kelland Hutchence was a businessman. Those two professions led to frequent relocation throughout Hutchence’s childhood — from Brisbane to Hong Kong and beyond. In Sydney, Michael d...
While visiting a girlfriend in Copenhagen, Denmark, Hutchence got into a fight with a taxi driver that left him with permanent brain damage. He lost all sense of taste and smell and his drug and alcohol use increased afterward. His family would later say this accident precipitated the depressed phase that would later lead to his death. Under these ...
Michael Hutchence was found naked, kneeling, and facing his hotel room door with his belt secured to the automatic enclosure and tied around his neck. The buckle had broken off after he asphyxiated, and it appeared he’d died of an apparent suicide. His mother released a statement claiming that her 37-year-old son had been depressed. But Yates, mean...
Nov 22, 2022 · A belt around his neck that was attached to the door-closing mechanism had broken. He choked to death in a case of apparent suicide. Hutchence was 37 years old.
Hutchence died by suicide in a Sydney hotel room on 22 November 1997, at the age of 37.
Dec 29, 2019 · A violent altercation five years before his death left the INXS star with two large areas of permanent damage, as well as robbing him of his sense of taste and smell.
Jan 29, 2014 · Singer Michael Hutchence was in a depressed state the morning he died, the Coroner found. The rehearsal was to be the last one before the start of the tour and was quite important.
Nov 25, 1997 · INXS frontman Michael Hutchence, 37, was found dead in a Sydney, Australia hotel room just before noon local time on Nov. 22. Although police have confirmed that Hutchence's death was caused by...
