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ERASING THE PAST: Sir Bob Geldof wants to change Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily Hutchence's last name, according to reports.
Sir Bob Geldof is trying to erase the memory of Michael Hutchence by forcing the late rock star's only daughter to change her surname, Hutchence's sister says.
Geldof has taken care of Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily Hutchence since her mother, Paula Yates, died in 2000.
The former INXS frontman's sister, Tina, has told Australia's New Idea magazine in its latest issue that Geldof intends to change Tiger Lily's name to Geldof and formally adopt her.
"It's not enough that he should have Tiger Lily, but he thinks he should adopt her and change her name," she told the magazine.
Tiger Lily was born in 1996, a year after Yates ended her 10-year marriage to Geldof to be with Hutchence.
November 22 marks the 10-year anniversary of Hutchence's death. He was found naked and hanging from a cord in a Sydney hotel room.
Three years later, TV presenter Yates died from a heroin overdose at her London home.
The Hutchence family has received a letter from Geldof's lawyers informing them of his intention to change Tiger Lily's name, Tina Hutchence said.
"In seven years, he's given my mother just four days of supervised visits," she said.
"None of the rest of us have seen Tiger, only my mother, and that was with the nanny.
"And the interesting thing is Bob Geldof is patron of a charity called Grandparents Apart - a charity for grandparents who don't get to see their grandchildren," she said
