Late Thursday night, the singer’s band Scott Weiland & The Wildabouts was scheduled to perform, but after first responders were called to the scene, “Officers arrived and determined the adult male was deceased”, officials told ABC News at the time. The website showed the event was canceled but didn’t give a reason.
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A cause of death was not immediately released, but Weiland’s struggles with substance abuse were well-known throughout his career.
After ex-members of Stone Temple Pilots sued the two-time Grammy-winner in 2013 for playing their material during his solo shows (STP was later fronted by Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington), Weiland countersued, calling his ex-bandmates’ claims “ridiculous”.
Earlier this year, fans feared that Scott Weiland was going down the same path of addiction and self-harm as he had in his Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver days when video surfaced of a botched live rendition of the STP-era hit Vasoline.
In 2002, Weiland was recruited as the frontman for rock supergroup Velvet Revolver, formed by ex-Guns N’ Roses stars Slash, Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum.
Weiland is survived by two children with his ex-wife, Mary Forsberg, who wrote in her 2009 memoir “Fall to Pieces” that there was a time when the couple, while beset by drug addiction, took a limousine together to rehab. The former frontman for Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver was 48. The same year, he pled guilty to heroin possession. No cause of death has yet been released. The singer subsequently filed a countersuit against Stone Temple Pilots, claiming the band have no legal right to remove him from the line-up. “So gutted, I am thinking of his family tonight”, Navarro said.
Black has reportedly been arrested for fifth degree felony possession of drugs.
Radar spoke exclusively to a source very close to Weilands wife, Jamie Wachtel, who said that the Weiland and the Wildabouts drummer Joey Castillo was the one who found his lifelong friend dead. Stone Temple Pilots released four more albums that each made it into major Top 10 charts, and spawned a number of notable hits.
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