According to the Post, friends of Adam Goldstein say the celebrity DJ's relapse was recent and that he had promised he'd check into rehab. His erratic "behavior that so worried his West Coast manager and recovery sponsor that they jumped on a red-eye Wednesday night to confront him at his SoHo apartment Thursday morning... When they arrived, an agitated Goldstein stubbornly refused to see his manager -- but allowed the sponsor inside. That's when Goldstein lit up a crack pipe and popped pills in front of his horrified pal, investigators told The Post." He reportedly said he'd head to rehab after a Friday night gig in Las Vegas, but his body was discovered by the authorities—responding to his friends' call— on Friday afternoon. Other law enforcement sources told TMZ that the 36-year-old did not commit suicide but apparently "developed a dependency to Xanax and other benzodiazepines (a group of drugs used to treat anxiety) as a direct result of the plane crash a year ago. We're told AM (aka Adam Goldstein) developed a tremendous anxiety over flying -- something he had to do frequently for his job." Goldstein had survived a plane crash that killed four others and suffered severe burns. The ME's office autopsy was inconclusive and it is still working on the toxicology report.





"We're told AM (aka Adam Goldstein) developed a tremendous anxiety over flying"
Can't say I blame him.
Sucks to go the way he did, considering what he survived. Ah, well.
this sucks, if you're an addict I would think you would want to stay out of the DJ, club, celebrity environment.
and, he's dead but john madden is still alive and making millions.
This guy made more in a night than most Americans make in a year. He could have cut down his work schedule and rented a bus full of hookers to drag him from gig to gig.
I was thinking that exactly.
If it was that nerve-wracking, why fly at all?
You would think, but the environment tends to be full of enablers.
That's why the best known rehab clinic in Malibu is "Promises". Promises promises...
Stop the presses!!
An addict promised to go to rehab but didn't!!
Can we please move on?
I'm guessing you didn't even read the entire story?
He just needed to smoke some more crack and do a little DJing before heading over to rehab.
This is a sad story. Show some respect.
I have to ask - what makes a DJ so good that he or she gets crooked CEO pay, first class travel and accommodations to haul him/her to the far corners of the earth, etc. etc. Are they actually exponentially more talented than all the other DJs out there ("No, dude, you really can hear the difference") or is it more about image, hype, connections, etc.
I mean sure DJing requires talent, skill, drive, etc. but not that much. You don't even need certification or anything like that to call yourself one, especially in this laptop-as-record-crate era.
It has a lot to do with image, hype, and connections -- if you can spin and work the crowd well. People want to go dance @ places where the music won't suck and the energy isn't lame. When a club gets a good DJ in, people do come in and tend to spend more on drinks than they would in, say, a club with shitty DJ's.
I've been to clubs where the DJ's were atrocious--cutting tracks for no discernable reason at all, fucking up the vibe in the club--for example.
There really is a big difference between a good DJ and a shitty DJ.
who the fuck is DJ AM? Seems to be just another stupid junkie who couldn't control himself. Glad he did the right thing.