Pete Doherty: the gifted artists who pay a fatal price after entering his orbit

Last week, film-maker Robyn Whitehead died in the squalid east London flat of a friend of the Babyshambles frontman. In 2006, Mark Blanco fell to his death at a party attended by the singer. Jamie Doward examines the trail of misery left in Pete Doherty's wakeSheila Blanco calls Pete Doherty the Pied Piper. "He leads the easily impressionable; he has this act of being a pseudo-Bohemian, when in fact he's just posing," she says in a measured voice, one that belies a ­maelstrom of emotions with...

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