DOHERTY FILM-MAKER DEAD
A film-maker friend of PETE DOHERTY has died of a suspected drug overdose= - after completing a documentary about the troubled rocker.
Robyn Whitehead, a member of the Goldsmith dynasty who championed Brita= in’s political Green Party, was discovered in an east London apartment af= ter an ambulance was called to the property on Sunday night (24Jan10).
The 27 year old, who was rumoured to have dated the troubled rocker in = 2008, had recently directed a film, The Road To Albion, about Doherty’s f= ormer band The Libertines.
Cops are not treating the death as suspicious, but it is understood tha= t drugs paraphernalia was found at the flat. An inquest into Whitehead’s = death was opened and adjourned on Wednesday (28Jan10).
A statement from her family reads, "Robyn had an exceptional capacity f= or compassion and for love both to her family and close friends and to al= l those whom she touched. This was reflected in the depths and passion of= her art. To lose her so young and so far before her life=E2=80=99s work = was done is heartbreaking."
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