How did Michael Hutchence, the lead singer of INXS, die?
He took hanged himself in his hotel bedroom. The INXS album, Elegantly Wasted, was released in April 1997. Hutchence and INXS went on a world tour. The final leg of the tour was to be in Australia in November and December. However, on the morning of November 22, 1997, Hutchence, aged 37, was found dead in his room at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Double Bay, Sydney (now the Stamford Plaza). A belt found at the scene suggested that he had died by hanging. The Coroner of New South Wales determined that Hutchence’s death was the result of suicide, but analysis of the witness statements in the Coroner’s report, the lack of a suicide note and other anecdotal evidence, such as the fact that Hutchence was found nude, has led some – including Hutchence’s brother and other close relatives – to suggest that the death may have resulted from autoerotic asphyxiation.[3] Kym Wilson and her then-boyfriend Andrew Reyment were the last people to see Michael alive. Michael Hutchence’s coffin was carried out
