Michael Hutchence (24)

Michael Hutchence
1960–1997
Priapic INXS singer
Cause of Death: Autoerotic asphyxiation

Live Fast, Die Young, Leave a Pantsless Corpse? Hutchence died while still young and good-looking, but the circumstances of his end—found hanging naked on the back of a hotel-room door, having inadvertently strangled himself while masturbating—hardly burnished his Dionysian sex-god image. Later still, more sordid details of his demise were provided in a TV documentary by his girlfriend Paula Yates.
Life After Death: INXS's polished dance-pop aged poorly in the post-grunge years, and Hutchence’s death didn’t help. His self-titled solo debut was posthumously released in 1999, to little fanfare.
Mystify: His family will never see any of his money, as most of the $14 million fortune he left at his death was irretrievably lost in a collection of secret companies and trust funds set up to protect it.
Harsh reality: Hutchence’s bandmates carried on as INXS without him, enlisting a series of replacements culminating in last year’s reality show Rock Star: INXS, selecting J.D. Fortune, a 32-year-old Canadian former Elvis impersonator, as permanent vocalist.