DJ AM (real name Adam Goldstein) was found dead in his NYC apartment on Friday. A friend found him laying face-down on his bed on Friday, and there was drug paraphernalia in the apartment. A pipe for smoking drugs as well as prescription bottles were discovered.
DJ AM's last post to Twitter was on August 25th, and quoted Grandmaster Flash from the song "New York New York."
"New york, new york. Big city of dreams, but everything in new york aint always what it seems." --DJ_AM, August 25th, 5:57pm.
The celebrity disc jockey and Los Angeles club owner was a jet setter who spun records at some of the world's most exclusive parties, including private events for Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lopez and Ben Stiller, among many others, and could command more than $25,000 for a three-hour set. A former member of the rock band Crazy Town, he grabbed tabloid headlines for having been engaged to socialite/reality TV star Nicole Richie and dating actress/singer Mandy Moore.
Throughout his early 20s, he struggled with drugs, depression and his weight, which reached 300 pounds in the mid-1990s. In 1997, Goldstein said in interviews that he came close to killing himself. Instead, however, he gave up drugs and alcohol and underwent gastric bypass surgery, resulting in a drastic weight reduction.
Goldstein's death comes almost a year after he survived a fiery Learjet crash on the runway of a South Carolina airport that claimed the lives of two other passengers and left him covered with second- and third-degree burns.
Goldstein announced his participation in a new reality TV show for MTV called "Gone Too Far." The program followed Goldstein -- who battled addiction for 10 years -- as he helped the loved ones of drug addicts stage interventions. At a news conference last month, Goldstein said he wanted to help others because he had escaped death twice as a former addict and crash survivor."There's no reason why I should have lived or why I lived and they didn't," Goldstein said. "I'm alive and I'm here and I have another chance. So I have to do something better with my life this time."
Hmmm...very interesting!!!!
