DJ AM's Estate Sues Jet Charter Company for Wrongful Death
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The estate of DJ AM (real name: Adam Goldstein) has filed an unexpected wrongful death suit -- against the charter company responsible for a serious Sept. 2008 crash in which he was involved.
"The crash ultimately caused Adam Goldstein's death," documents read, according to TMZ.
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At age 36, Goldstein was found dead in his New York City apartment Aug. 28 2009; he had overdosed on a toxic combination of prescription drugs and cocaine.
Nearly a year earlier, Goldstein and musician Travis Barker were the sole two survivors out of six in a horrific private plane crash in South Carolina. Prior to this accident, Goldstein had been clean and sober, according to friends. He suffered drug addiction in his early 20s but had kicked the habit for ten years.
This new lawsuit contends that Goldstein, as a direct result of the crash, "was forced" to abuse prescription drugs to deal with painful burns and emotional trauma.
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The suit names Clay Lacy Aviation as well as travel service Goodyear Tire, Learjet and the estates of the two pilots who perished in the crash.
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OH PLEASE! ONCE A DRUGGIE ALWAYS A DUGGIE!
It is such a tragic ending to his life, and I feel sorry for his family, however, how are they to say that he would not go back to drugs ever in his lifetime? sobriety is not certain for any addict and noone can predict if an addict will fall off the wagon on his/her own accord or sometimes it does take a tragic event to make a person go back to drugs. I think it is sad for the estate to file this lawsuit against anyone...BUT to sue the families of the two pilots who passed away in the crash..how devestating for those families..I think losing their loved ones is enough..how could the family of Adam's do that to them????? Isn't suing big companies more than enough for these people??????
Is this for real??? It's very sad that he died, but this is f'n ridiculous. Whoever's in charge of his estate are presenting themselves as fools.
they should sue the drug companies who are killing celebs and people everyday. they are over prescribing and killing us everyday. wake up and smell the roses America and world - you are being drugged for profit everyday. that is who they should be after.
I think I'm going to sue for the trauma of having to read this sh*t
Bad move. Nobody forced him to take drugs. Believe it or not, lots of people recover from trauma and burns are are not addicted to drugs. Hope this is thrown out of court. This young man had no self control. He could not control his own food intake and had to have gastric surgery. The accident is not responsible for his continued drug abuse. -------------------- I TOTALLY agree DEE!!
I get so tired of people with money suing others for more money when someone they (claim to) love dies from their own "weaknesses" or stupidity. Honestly, why not sue the doctor(s) who provided the litany of meds, a la Anna Nicole and Michael Jackson, rather than accept the fact that the deceased was willing to see more than one physician and/or use false names to maintain their own pharmacy? To say nothing of the coke. People with money live in an alternate reality, I swear!
SM - Agree, it is self inflicted - However, what I was trying to say is that once you have it - like cancer or an addiction it sneaks up on you, it can go into remission and can come back before you know it. I lost my mother to cancer and my knee brother to addiction. So I can compare! Thought my mother was going to be ok after 5 years not! Thought my brother was on the road to recovery not! You have your life and I have mine! I didn't love my brother any less for his addiction just prayed and wished he could have been stronger! I watched him go down just like my mother with cancer...yes, some will say he had a choice, I hear them, but then realize they have never had a love one with an addiction so they can't really know. Some people I don't know why, just aren't strong enough or get TIRED (like cancer) they are too tired to fight anymore... my mother was a wonderful person and mother and did nothing to deserve cancer and I know my brother's addiction was out of his weakness but when they are gone, it really doesn't matter to the one who loved them if it was cancer, addiction, car accident...your love one is just gone...........
by that logic why don't they just sue his father? ...because then he would never have been born and eventually caused to die. I can't believe there's some bloodsucking lawyer out there bilking AM's idiot family by the hour on some belief that this is a legitimate lawsuit
I think DJ caused DJ's death. They are just money hungry publicity leeches.
So let me get this straight - he's gone; the pilots are gone & they are still going to sue all the people? It doesn't seem right considering the only thing to be gained from it money. What's the point? It's not going to bring anyone back.
last time I checked cocaine was not a presciption drug
Im sure the crash messed him up, but HE is the one who picked up the powder and pills! I still can not believe that MTV shows his rehab show. His family should just be happy that they got to spend a few more months with him, but I guess money is better huh? If his family cared so much about him they would have been around him and known what he was doing and got him help.
Yes and lets have the other passengers families sue Adam's estate too.. since those two probably climbed over them to get out of the plane and running yes running down the runway. Please it would be like suing Heath Ledgers last movie for killing him and making him addicted to prescription drugs...>> He was doing a reality show about rehabbing yourself .. and when it does get to court it will be thrown out..!! So greedy pig family your get rich scheme won't work because Travis is not dead from a drug overdose.
To Mary: Addiction is NOT like cancer. Addiction is self inflicted. People do not cause their own cancer. People cause their own drug addiction by using their free will and choosing to take drugs. When are we going to end this BS that alcohol and drug addiction are "diseases". That is the biggest bunch of BS I have ever heard. I come from a family full of addicts and I have chosen not to go down that route. Alcohol and drug addiction are NOT genetic. Addiction is the out come of chosen behaviors. End of story.
Bad move. Nobody forced him to take drugs. Believe it or not, lots of people recover from trauma and burns are are not addicted to drugs. Hope this is thrown out of court. This young man had no self control. He could not control his own food intake and had to have gastric surgery. The accident is not responsible for his continued drug abuse.
Wow so did the charter jet company hold a gun to his and force him to abuse coke and prescription meds? I always thought that was a personal choice. What a crock of poop!
No one wants to take responsibility for themselves. For goodness sake, he was taping a show on addiction, he knew that he was in trouble and he knew that he had a prediposition to drug addition. To sue the families of the pilots, who also lost their lives is wrong and greedy. It was a tragic accident, one that have not even discovered the cause of yet. And yet, these people already trying to get rich of this.
Give me a break...He did drugs before the plane crash. People always trying to cash in on accidents!!!