Kabbalah DJ Found Dead
August 29. 2009
DJ AM (photo credit: New York Times)
Kabbalah member, DJ AM, was found dead in his New York apartment yesterday.
DJ AM, real name, Adam Goldstein,
survived a plane crash last year that killed
four people.
A friend went to check on him, after not hearing from Goldstein for a few
days. When he received no response from knocking on his door, his friend called
the police.
DJ AM's apartment (photo credit: Radar Online)
The police then contacted the fire department, requesting they breakdown his apartment
door. Goldstein was found dead, laying face down in bed. A crackpipe and
prescription medication were found in his apartment.
In the weeks before his passing, Goldstein began work on an MTV special aimed
at cleaning up drug addicts. He professed he was 9-years sober, but clearly
relapsed.
Side Bar: didn't the site just go over this two days ago, with the
death of Kabbalah member Michael Jackson, warning that another Kabbalah member,
Britney Spears,
engaging in similarly
reckless conduct, is eligible for an overdose. Not to mention the
Heath Ledger article last
year. Celebrities often fail to learn from others mistakes.
Side Bar #2: As a poster on TMZ's feedback section noted last night,
thus far, this summer alone, there have been a number of
celebrity deaths: Ed McMahon,
Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, Billy Mays, Jasmine Fiore, Oscar Mayer Jr, John
Hughes, Eunice Shriver, Ted Kennedy, Walter Cronkite, Steve McNair, David
Carridine, Dominique Dunne,
Karl Malden, Gale Storm, Sky Saxon and Fred Travalena.
STORY SOURCE
DJ AM, Star Disc Jockey, Found Dead
Published: August 28, 2009 - DJ AM, a high-profile disc jockey who was as
famous for his much-chronicled relationships as he was for his creative
scratching and mixing on the celebrity club circuit, was found dead on Friday
evening in his apartment in Manhattan, the police said.
The police said his body was found in his seventh-floor apartment in SoHo
about 5:30 p.m. after friends had tried unsuccessfully to reach him for days.
The chief police spokesman, Paul J. Browne, said the police did not suspect foul
play.
DJ AM, 36, whose real name was Adam Goldstein, was discovered face-down in
his bed wearing only sweatpants, with a crack pipe and unspecified prescription
drugs nearby, an official said. Emergency workers had to break down the door to get in after one of the
friends who had been trying to reach Mr. Goldstein called 911 on Friday.
In an interview with The New York Times in 2007, Mr. Goldstein said he drank
heavily, used cocaine and smoked crack in his early 20s, reaching his lowest
point when he attempted suicide in 1997. But he also said he had cleaned up his
life — including having gastric bypass surgery after his weight ballooned to 324
pounds — and had managed to stay sober for nine years...
In October, The Associated Press reported, MTV was to begin his new reality
show, “Gone Too Far,” in which he and concerned families staged interventions
for drug abusers...
http://www.nytimes.com
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