DJ AM gave MTV his final interview before his untimely passing. In the interview he discussed his battle with crack cocaine, his 11yrs sobriety, and the new reality show he was working on with MTV that would document his second passion help addicts turn their lives around.
Details of AM’s Death:
On Friday Aug. 28 2009, a close friend of DJ AM was so worried when the spinner didn’t show up for a flight or answer his cell phone that he sped to the star’s Manhattan pad – and discovered he was dead, a police source said Saturday.
Brooklyn actor Alex Burns knocked on the door of DJ AM’s $2 million SoHo apartment on Friday night, but there was no answer, cops said. He asked the building’s super to unlock the door, but the security chaing was latched inside, so they called the police.
Cops broke in a short time later and found DJ AM facedown on his bed, with a crack pipe and prescription drugs nearby, police said.
When they rolled him over, cops discovered a near-empty bag of crack stuck to his chest, a source said. The mercurial and tragic 36-year-old, whose real name was Adam Goldstein, had died of an apparent drug overdose.
Medical examiners in Manhattan performed an autopsy Saturday, but said they needed more time to determine how he died. Burns, an actor best known for his role in the 2004 film “Garden State,” was set to fly to Las Vegaswith Goldstein for a performance at The Palms Casino Resort on Friday.
Palms paid tribute to the spinner Saturday night, cutting the lights on the “P,” “L” and “S” letters from their giant Palms sign, leaving just “A M” illuminated over the Vegas strip.
