Cranberries star Dolores’s death at 46 ‘not suspicious’
THE death of 46-year-old Cranberries star Dolores O’Riordan is not being treated as suspicious, Scotland Yard said yesterday.
Officers were called in after the Irish singer’s body was found in a room at London’s Hilton Hotel in Park Lane on Monday morning and the case has now been passed to a coroner.
The mother-of-three struggled at times with her band’s success, dropping out of a tour in 1996 citing exhaustion and disillusionment and later left Ireland for several years to avoid the spotlight.
She was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2015 and has also spoken of struggling with eating disorders and alcoholism.
Dolores, renowned for her distinctive voice, was in London for a recording session ahead of a planned tour.
She was due to record a version of her smashhit Zombie with hard rock band Bad Wolves.
She wrote the song in response to the IRA’s Warrington bombing of 1993 which claimed the lives of two young children.
Her friend and music producer Dan Waite said that hours before her death Dolores had sounded “full of life”. He added: “The news of her passing is devastating.”
In 2014, Dolores split from her husband of 20 years, former Duran Duran tour manager Don Burton, with whom she had her children.
She had a new boyfriend Ole Koretsky of the band D.A.R.K.
The Cranberries sold more than 40 million records to become Ireland’s second best-selling band, after U2. Her bandmates Noel Hogan, Fergal Lawler and Mike Hogan are devastated.