Crazy Town lead singer Seth Binzer, who rose to fame with the song Butterfly, has died at the age of 49, the Los Angeles medical examiner said.
Binzer, who called himself Shifty Shellshock, founded the band in THE in 1995 with Brett Mazur.
He died on Monday according to the examiner’s website. The cause of death has not been revealed.
Rap rock band Crazy Town is best known for their third single, Butterfly, which reached number one on the US singles chart and number three on the UK singles chart, and became a anthem from the early 2000s.
The band also had hits in the UK with Revolving Door in the same year and Drowning in 2002, which reached 23 and 50 respectively.
He continued with the group under the name Crazy Town X and went on their last tour in 2023.
Binzer, who also had a solo career, had struggled with drug addiction, appearing on two seasons of reality shows Celebrity Rehab and Sober House.
Binzer in 2010. Photo: Startraks/Shutterstock
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During an interview with Rolling Stone in 2001, the Californian admitted to selling drugs for several years and spending three months in the California Institution for Men after an attempted robbery.
In an Instagram post in AprilThe singer uploaded a photo of a man wearing a black vest and a black balaclava surrounded by people dressed in the same clothes but in white.
The image said: “The real is rare, the fake is everywhere.”
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It was accompanied by a caption where Binzer wrote: “To those who stay even when I do everything I can to drive them away.”
Binzer had three children, Gage, Halo and Phoenix, with three different partners, Melissa Clark, whom he married in 2002 and divorced in 2011, Tracey Shelor and British model Jasmine Lennard.
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