# Paul Roundhill
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{{Short description|English artist, publisher, and writer}}
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1955|3|25|df=y}}
| birth_place = [Edgware](/source/Edgware), London, England
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'''Paul Nicholas Roundhill''' (born 25 March 1955) is an English artist, publisher, and writer based in the [East End of London](/source/East_End_of_London). He is best known for his association with musician [Pete Doherty](/source/Pete_Doherty), acting as his self-styled literary agent and previously running the website balachada.com,[{{Cite web|url=http://www.themodernage.org/2005/08/27/pete-doherty-tv-comes-to-your-computer-screen/|title = Pete Doherty TV Comes to Your Computer Screen| date=30 November 2001 }}] which was closed by Doherty in May 2006.[{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/dec/10/musicnews.music1 | title=The damaged world of Doherty's circle | publisher=[The Observer](/source/The_Observer) | first=Jamie | last=Doward |author2=Alexander, Martha | date=10 December 2006 | access-date=21 May 2009 | location=London}}]
==Music and multimedia==
Roundhill developed a relationship with the musician Pete Doherty in the early days of [the Libertines](/source/the_Libertines), an English [indie rock](/source/indie_rock) band active from 1999 until 2004. He co-wrote the song "The Saga", which is on side 2 of their second album, ''The Libertines''.[PRS For Music]
His relationship with Doherty led Roundhill to expose him on the website www.balachadha.com (Bala Chadha being street slang for [crack cocaine](/source/crack_cocaine) from the Bengali translation of "good white"), claiming that fans could get a closer insight into Doherty's life. He recorded videos on a webcam of Doherty playing acoustic guitar, smoking drugs and self-harming. Smart Software Services charged fans a small fee to watch these videos.[Smart Software Services][{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk_news/story/0,,1557379,00.html | title=Intimate Doherty's web of intrigue | first=Patrick | last=Barkham | work=[The Guardian](/source/The_Guardian) | date=27 August 2005 | accessdate=21 May 2009 | location=London}}]
He appears for 4 seconds in the [Babyshambles](/source/Babyshambles) music video for song "The Blinding".[[http://www.albionarks.com/media/details.php?image_id=2733/ www.albionarks.com]]
==Death of Mark Blanco==
Mark Blanco, a 30-year-old actor, died in 2006 after plunging {{convert|11|ft|m}} to his death from a first floor balcony outside Roundhill's flat in east London after being ejected by Roundhill. Blanco, who had been drinking, had allegedly become physically aggressive towards Doherty, a fellow guest.[{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk_news/story/0,,1965864,00.html | title=Actor falls to death at party attended by Pete Doherty | work=[The Guardian](/source/The_Guardian) | first=Sandra | last=Laville | date=7 December 2006 | accessdate=21 May 2009 | location=London}}] During the altercation before he was ejected, Roundhill took Blanco's hat off and set it alight, allegedly in an attempt to distract him away from the singer. Doherty and Roundhill were interviewed by police, and neither were considered suspects in Blanco's death.[{{cite news | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-20635719 | title=CCTV suggests death fall Mark Blanco probably 'dropped' | publisher=[BBC](/source/BBC) | first=Peter | last=Marshall | date=6 December 2012 | access-date=26 December 2012}}]
Singer/songwriter [Paul Cunniffe](/source/Paul_Cunniffe) also died in a fall from Roundhill's flat in August 2001. Roundhill claims to have no memory of that incident.[{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/jan/31/pete-doherty-blanco-whitehead | work=The Guardian | location=London | title=Pete Doherty: the gifted artists who pay a fatal price after entering his orbit | first=Jamie | last=Doward | date=31 January 2010 | accessdate=22 May 2010}}]
==Drugs==
[Boy George](/source/Boy_George) wrote of Roundhill in his autobiography ''Take It Like A Man'': "That night I made a lethal connection with Paul Cod [George's name for Roundhill] – a pond-life dealer and junkie".[{{cite news | url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200606/s1664243.htm | title=Moss avoids charges over drug scandal | publisher=[Reuters](/source/Reuters) | date=15 June 2006 | accessdate=21 May 2009}}]
Roundhill was living at a Salvation Army homeless centre by Canary Wharf in 2009 but after relapsing several times he was asked to leave by the centre management.
== Rampart Street arson attack ==
Roundhill's flat in Rampart St., Whitechapel was subject to an arson attack in mid-2008.