According to the New York City Medical Examiner, DJ AM (Adam Goldstein) died accidentally of “acute intoxication” after consuming a mixture of cocaine, painkillers, sleeping pills and mood-alterers like OxyContin, Vicodin, Benadryl, Xanax, Ativan and Klonopin.
Wow, that’s a toxic combination. How do you take all that by accident?!
It was previous thought that Adam might have committing suicide after being found dead on Aug. 28th.
Before DJ AM’s tragic death, he worked on a drug-intervention show with MTV called Gone Too Far. There was enough footage for eight episodes, but it was unclear if the series would get the go-ahead after his death.
Yesterday afternoon, family and friends gathered at Hillside Memorial Park and Mortuary in West Los Angeles for a private funeral service honoring the celebrity DJ otherwise known as Adam Goldstein.
Goldstein, 36, was found dead in his New York apartment last Friday of a suspected drug overdose.
Travis Barker and actor Scott Caan were among those spotted in attendance at the private ceremony.
In a complicated web of company ownership, a high flyer's legal problems could throw a wrench into a lawsuit involving Travis Barker, Adam DJ AM Goldstein and the estate of Travis's late assistant Chris Baker who died in the crash of their chartered Learjet.
The financier, Danny Pang, is out of jail on a $1 million bond, and his investment firms are currently under investigation.
Former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and DJ AM, Adam Goldstein, are in critical condition with extensive burns at the Joseph Still Burn Center in Augusta, Georgia after surviving a Learjet plane crash Friday night that left four others dead.
The four other passengers were pilot Sarah Lemmon, 31, co-pilot James Bland, 52, security guard Charles Still, 25, and Barker's assistant Chris Baker, 26.