Sir Bob Geldof has been in the spotlight for a number of years. First as a musician in the Boomtown Rats, then as an activist who gave one of the biggest concerts in history: Live Aid. In the background has always been his family life – so how many children does he have?
How many children does Sir Bob Geldof have?
Sir Bob had three daughters and adopted a fourth in 2007.
However, sadly Sir Bob’s daughter Peaches died in April 2014, aged 25.
Sir Bob is married to French actress Jeanne Marine, but she is not the mother of his children, as he was first married TV presenter Paula Yates.
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Yates and Sir Bob met in the 1970s, as Yates was an obsessed fan of the Boomtown Rats when the band was starting out, and they got together in 1976.
That year, Yates flew to Paris to surprise Sir Bob, when the band was playing there, which helped to cement their relationship.
Though the couple were married in 1986, they had their first daughter, Fifi Trixibelle, on March 31, 1983.
The pair eventually married in Las Vegas in June 1986, with Simon Le Bon of Duran Duran fame acting as Sir Bob’s best man.
The couple had two further daughters, Peaches Honeyblossom, born March 13, 1989, and Little Pixie, known as Pixie, born September 17, 1990.
Sir Bob and Yates’ relationship soon came to an end when in February 1995, when Yates left him for INXS frontman Michael Hutchence.
According to a friend who spoke to The Guardian, Yates and Hutchence had strong feelings for each other, but their relationship signalled a “spiral of decline.”
The friend said: “She did really love Michael, she was mad about him.
“That’s when the spiral of decline started.”
Sir Bob and Yates divorced in May 1996, though newspaper coverage of the time suggested the break up was not a happy one, and Yates went on to have a daughter with Hutchence: Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily, born in July 1996.
In November 1997, Hutchence took his own life, and after a long investigation and court battle, Sir Bob gained full custody of his children.
In 2000, Yates died of a heroin overdose, at which time Sir Bob became the legal guardian of her daughter with Hutchence, known as Tiger Lily, and he adopted her in 2007.
In April 2014, Sir Bob’s middle daughter, Peaches, died of a heroin overdose, after which her father released a statement, saying: “We are beyond pain.
“She was the wildest, funniest, cleverest, wittiest and the most bonkers of all of us.
“We loved her and will cherish her forever.”
Following this, in May 2014, Sir Bob announced his engagement to Marine, and the couple were married in April 2015 in France, and now live in Battersea, South London.