That was reported at the time yes, leaks from friends of the girls who said they were left unsupervised most of the time. Really sad because both he and Paula had weird neglected (but not poor) childhoods. Paula's mother kept running off to be a chorus girl/starlet leaving her with her depressive father, who himself chased young girls. Bob's mother died when he was 8 and his father had to keep travelling for work, leaving him on his own a lot and then onto boarding school. In Bob's book "Is That It?" he wrote that because he and Paula hadn't had good childhoods they really wanted to create a great home and family together, so sad how it turned out. Not just the divided-up house scenario but when she left Bob for Michael Hutchence, Peaches and Pixie were only 5 and 4, so they had the upheaval of being dragged around through their parents' very ugly divorce, new stepdad, their mother turning into a druggy party animal, a new baby, then Michael and Paula's deaths. No amount of money could protect you from that trainwreck, it was so sad.