Shifty Shellshock Passed Away!

Shifty Shellshock died of possible overdose.

The frontman of the rap-rock group of the early 2000s has passed away.

Shifty Shellshock, lead singer of the 1990s-early 2000s rock group CRAZY TOWN has passed away. The group was known for their smash hit (one hit wonder), "Butterfly", and less for his solo career. He abused substances throughout much of his life and appeared on the reality television series Celebrity Rehab and Sober House.

Seth Binzer was born in Los Angeles in 1974; his father, Rollin Binzer worked as an artist and director, and his mother, Leslie Brooks, worked as a model and script proofreader.

He grew up primarily in Los Angeles with the exception of a brief period in Marblehead, Massachusetts.

In a 2001 interview with Rolling Stone, Binzer admitted to spending three months in the California Institution for Men following an attempted burglary, to selling and using recreational drugs over a period of several years, as well as to struggling with drug addiction.

Binzer married Melissa Clark in 2002. They had a son named Halo. In 2011, Clark filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences. Binzer dated a woman named Tracy in 2008. They had a son named Gage.

Binzer began a relationship with Jasmine Lennard in 2010. On March 27, 2011, police responded to a report of a domestic disturbance between the pair. Binzer was arrested for outstanding warrants and released later that day. In a video interview with TMZ.com, Binzer stated the disturbance was simply a noise complaint, and that the outstanding warrant was for counter-assaulting a security guard who was using unnecessary force when trying to throw him out of a club. Lennard and Binzer announced their engagement in 2012. Binzer was arrested in February 2012 for battery and cocaine possession, and sentenced to three years' probation; his relationship with Lennard ended shortly thereafter. Binzer and Lennard had a son named Phoenix. In 2013, Lennard asked a California court for exclusive custody of their son, claiming Binzer smoked crack in front of him and once left a crack pipe in his room.

In 2022, Binzer was dating childhood friend and Punky Brewster/Sabrina The Teenage Witch actress Soleil Moon Frye when he was arrested for DUI in Los Angeles.

Binzer was found dead in his home in Los Angeles on June 24, 2024, aged 49. No cause of death was given.

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