SYDNEY: The post-mortem examination conducted on Michael Hutchence has revealed that the INXS frontman died instantly from three cumshot wounds to the head.
In a world exclusive, The Bug has been handed the confidential findings of the autopsy carried out on Australia's greatest ever singer the Monday after his naked body was found hanging from a door jam in his expensive suite at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Sydney's prestigious Double Pay.
The shock findings, which will not be made public until the South Sydney Coroner's Court open hearings early next year, confirm that Hutchence died as a result of sexual misadventure and not suicide as first thought. Earlier police reports that there were signs of sexual activity in the room, including kym stains on the sheets, tend to support such a cause of death.
The Bug understands that the popular musician would have died instantly from any one of the cumshots, fired at pointblank range.
And our paper's world scoop has prompted one of Australia's leading sexologists, Doctor Dick, to warn young Australian fans of the famous star not to try to emulate his apparent ill-fated brush with sexual asphyxiation (see accompanying story).
The Bug has been told by an assistant who helped perform the autopsy that Hutchence stood no chance when his penis went off.
"His brain was like jelly; as if it had been put through a blender," said the assistant, who did not wish to be named. "It was a typical rock star's brain so the poor bugger had Buckley's chance of survival once he took the blows to the head as well."
"If it's any comfort to his thousands of fans, Michael would have felt a thing," the assistant said.
The Bug's independent investigation has confirmed that the shots would definitely have been fired at close range, creating an impact akin to being struck by the back end of an axe.
His partner Paula Yates has admitted she used to call him her Taj Mahal. This paper has also talked to a number of Hutchence's former sex partners who knew him invariably as Centre Point Tower, Cleopatra's Needle, Empire State Building and Leaning Tower of Pizza (sic).
Police meanwhile have interviewed and released a Sydney couple captured on the hotel's security video leaving Hutchence's room about 5am on the morning of his death. The video tape shows them carrying away a cage of freshly bathed ferrets, two metres of 5cm agricultural drainage pipe, a Kreepy Krawly, two butternut pumpkins, a 120volt truck battery with leads and a Rhode Island Red rooster with spurs.
Investigating police have informed The Bug the couple were old Sydney friends of Hutchence who had heard he was feeling a bit down and had gone to the hotel to cheer him up with the sort of kinky group sex he had always liked in the past.
"But Hutchence sent them on their way, saying he wanted to be alone for a while," an inspector told this paper. "He was still upset apparently after this group of stunning young women in the hotel's piano bar propositioned him about 1am that morning. He was sick and tired of the world's most beautiful women always wanting to have sex with him. He simply had had enough.
"His friends were not overly concerned when they left, however, because Hutchence had always enjoyed his own company."
