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News.com.au
2 days ago
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- News.com.au
Battle erupts over Crazy Town singer Shifty Shellshock's estate
The family of late Crazy Town singer Shifty Shellshock are waging a bitter war over his estate that may shock fans across the globe. Loved ones of the rapper, whose real name was Seth Binzer, are battling it out in a Los Angeles court amid a series of jaw-dropping claims. London-based model Jasmine Lennard - who previously dated Simon Cowell - had a son Phoenix with the tragic songwriter after they started dating in 2010. The father-of-three band frontman passed away at his home at the age of 49 in 2024, after a battle with drug and alcohol addiction that spanned four decades. A year on, and Jasmine is at loggerheads with Tracy Shelor, 42, who had a son Gage with the singer, and who was appointed executor of his estate. In sensational legal documents seen by The Sun, Jasmine, 40, claims in a declaration that the LA make-up artist is 'not suitable' for the role due to her 'longstanding pattern of criminal activity' and 'emotional instability'. Ms Lennard blasted Ms Shelor in a sworn statement that alleges she has an arrest for prostitution. The mum of two Ms Lennard, a former Big Brother star, goes on to claim that since objecting to Ms Shelor's appointment she has received 'multiple written threats from Ms Shelor including to 'ruin my life'.' The official document objecting to her executor role states: 'Ms Shelor was the only person in the decedent's extended family with whom he had no relationship at the time of his death. 'She publicly exploited him during his battle with addiction, sold stories about him to the press, and instigated legacy actions that further deteriorated his mental health. 'To now seek control of his estate after profiting off his struggles and perpetuating them for years is morally repugnant and legally unsupportable.' The legal document claims the remaining estranged family members of the troubled singer are seeking a restraining order against Ms Shelor, and they claim she was banned from his private funeral and burial at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in LA. But Ms Shelor, who dated the rocker between 2004 and 2008 during his well-documented drug addiction issues, has hit back at Ms Lennard and claimed to The Sun that documents submitted to the court had not been verified. Ms Lennard's publicly available statement says Ms Shelor has a 'substantial history of legal issues that include criminal charges, arrests and financial instability'. It states her convictions include a 2010 conviction for driving with a suspended license and 2015 arrest in Nevada for 'solicitation of prostitution' - but she was never convicted. A chronological timeline of Ms Shelor's arrests, convictions and financial liabilities include 17 incidents since 2001, according to the online declaration. As well as receiving threats, Ms Lennard claims Ms Shelor has also 'obstructed the legal and necessary process of obtaining US citizenship and a passport for Phoenix by interfering with a DNA testing process requested by the US Embassy'. Ms Shelor refused permission for a DNA sample to be taken from Gage to help Ms Lennard's son Phoenix have his US citizenship rubber-stamped. Ms Lennard said: 'Her actions have put my son's legal identity and immigration process at serious risk'. The next hearing in the increasingly bitter case is due next month. The Sun understands that Seth's family have accused each other of stealing his fortune and cutting off payments to his dependants since his death. Royalties from his global hits means he receives up to £5,000 a month ($A10,315) - which has gone to support his three kids. In 2022, Ms Shelor told The Sun that Seth then owed her more than $64,000 ($A98,000) in child support. She said he refused to pay any medical costs for his diabetic son with her - while enjoying vacations to Hawaii. She branded the star a 'deadbeat Dad'. After contacting Ms Shelor yesterday, she told The Sun of Ms Lennard's sworn court statements: 'Substantively, several assertions are inaccurate, and many are decades old and irrelevant.' And she said of her rival: 'She filed these after I declined her personal demand for DNA for her son's US passport - a demand no authority has made of me - and stated she would share them with the press.' Ms Shelor claimed that Ms Lennard's 'actions in this matter have already been reported to the proper authorities.' Ms Shelor told how she is a formally approved foster parent with completed background checks and home evaluations, with 'a strong professional record and community involvement, without any history to support her claims.' Seth's family gave thanks for his 'heart of gold' and remembered his 'beautiful soul' in a collective display of unity after his death in a statement to The Sun - before relations turned sour. Crazy Town once said that having 'been to hell and back' shaped them - and they faced more than their fair share of struggles. Seth's death is one of many tragedies to strike the band, who rose to fame in 2000 with their single Butterfly and sold 1.5 million of their debut album The Gift Of Game. Crazy Town initially split in 2003 after eight years together amid claims of wild drug-taking and alcohol abuse that led Seth to enter rehab on multiple occasions. The singer had a difficult upbringing. He regularly raided his graphic artist dad's drug stash during his childhood and learned to roll a joint at the age of five. He previously told Rolling Stone: 'My dad was the arty-farty guy who did lots of cocaine and had weed all over the house.' In Seth's teens he sold weed and harder substances and by 18 was jailed for 90 days after robbing another drug dealer at gunpoint. He recalled the band going on coke and speed-fuelled marathons while writing songs before being ordered into rehab in 1997. A year later, Seth was in Alcoholics Anonymous and ahead of gigs, the band would regularly recite the AA prayer 'God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. The courage to change the things I can.' By 2000, he fell off the wagon and was arrested for throwing a chair out of a window while he was drunk. In a 2001 interview, Seth admitted he had spent three months in prison for attempted burglary and that he was regularly selling and using recreational drugs. Throughout the 2000s, Seth battled addiction and sought help on the reality TV shows Celebrity Rehab 1 and 2 and Sober House 1 and 2. His battle with drugs contributed to his split from his first wife Melissa Clark, who he tied the knot with in 2002 and divorced nine years later, citing irreconcilable differences. It's unclear when Seth and Melissa, who shared son Halo, parted ways but in 2008, he dated Tracy Selor, who he had another boy with, Gage. Jasmine Lennard had sole custody of his third son Phoenix, who had a strong relationship with his Dad until his death.
The Sun
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Family of Crazy Town singer Shifty Shellshock locked in inheritance battle as they accuse each other of stealing fortune
THE family of late Crazy Town singer Shifty Shellshock are waging a bitter war over his estate that will shock fans across the globe. Loved ones of the rapper, real name Seth Binzer, are battling it out in a Los Angeles court amid a series of jaw-dropping claims. 5 5 5 London-based model Jasmine Lennard - who previously dated Simon Cowell - had a son Phoenix with the tragic song-writer after they started dating in 2010. The father-of-three band frontman passed away at his home at the age of 49 in 2024 - after a lengthy battle with drug and alcohol addiction that spanned four decades. A year on, and Jasmine is at loggerheads with Tracy Shelor, 42, who had a son Gage with the singer, and who was appointed executor of his estate. In sensational legal documents seen by The Sun, Jasmine, 40, claims in a declaration that the LA make-up artist is 'not suitable' for the role due to her 'long-standing pattern of criminal activity' and 'emotional instability'. Jasmine blasted Tracy in a sworn statement which alleges she has an arrest for prostitution. The sultry brunette mum of two Jasmine, a former Big Brother star, goes on to claim that since objecting to Tracy Shelor's appointment she has received, 'multiple written threats from Ms Shelor including to 'ruin my life'.' The beauty's official document objecting to her executor role states: 'Ms Shelor was the only person in the decedent's extended family with whom he had no relationship at the time of his death. "She publicly exploited him during his battle with addiction, sold stories about him to the press, and instigated legacy actions that further deteriorated his mental health. 'To now seek control of his estate after profiting off his struggles and perpetuating them for years is morally repugnant and legally unsupportable.' The legal document claims the remaining estranged family members of troubled Seth are seeking a restraining order against Ms Shelor, and they claim she was banned from his private funeral and burial at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. But Tracy, who dated the rocker between 2004 and 2008 during his well-documented drug addiction issues, has hit back at Jasmine and claimed to The Sun that documents submitted to the court had not been verified. Jasmine's publicly available statement says Ms Shelor has a 'substantial history of legal issues that include criminal charges, arrests and financial instability'. It states her convictions include a 2010 conviction for driving with a suspended license and 2015 arrest in Nevada for 'solicitation of prostitution' - but she was never convicted. A chronological timeline of Ms Shelor's arrests, convictions and financial liabilities include 17 incidents since 2001, according to the online declaration. As well as receiving threats, Jasmine claims Ms Shelor has also 'obstructed the legal and necessary process of obtaining US citizenship and a passport for Phoenix by interfering with a DNA testing process requested by the US Embassy'. Tracy refused permission for a DNA sample to be taken from Gage to help Jasmine's son Phenix have his US citizenship rubber-stamped. Jasmine says, 'her actions have put my son's legal identity and immigration process at serious risk'. The next hearing in the increasingly bitter case is due next month. The Sun understands that Seth's family have accused each other of stealing his fortune and cutting off payments to his dependents since his death. Royalties from his global hits means he receives up to £5,000 a month - which has gone to support his three kids. In 2022, Tracy told The Sun that Seth then owed her more than $64,000 in child support. She said he refused to pay any medical costs for his diabetic son with her - while enjoying vacations to Hawaii. She branded the star a 'deadbeat Dad'. After contacting Tracy yesterday, she told The Sun of Jamine's sworn court statements: 'Substantively, several assertions are inaccurate, and many are decades old and irrelevant.' And she said of her rival: 'She filed these after I declined her personal demand for DNA for her son's US passport - a demand no authority has made of me - and stated she would share them with the press." Tracy claimed that Jasmine's 'actions in this matter have already been reported to the proper authorities.' Tracy told how she is a formally approved foster parent with completed background checks and home evaluations, with 'a strong professional record and community involvement, without any history to support her claims.' And Tracy added she has 'reported the full timeline and supporting evidence to the FBI, the US Department of State, and the UK Embassy'. Seth's family gave thanks for his 'heart of gold' and remembered his 'beautiful soul' in a collective display of unity after his death in a statement to The Sun - before relations turned sour. Crazy Town once said that having 'been to hell and back' shaped them - and they faced more than their fair share of struggles. Seth's death is one of many tragedies to strike the band, who rose to fame in 2000 with their single Butterfly and sold 1.5million of their debut album The Gift Of Game. Crazy Town initially split in 2003 after eight years together amid claims of wild drug-taking and alcohol abuse that led Seth to enter rehab on multiple occasions. The singer had a difficult upbringing. He regularly raided his graphic artist dad's drug stash during his childhood and learned to roll a joint at the age of five. He previously told Rolling Stone: 'My dad was the artsy-fartsy guy who did lots of cocaine and had weed all over the house.' In Seth's teens he sold weed and harder substances and by 18 was jailed for 90 days after robbing another drug dealer at gunpoint. He recalled the band going on coke and speed-fueled marathons while writing songs before being ordered into rehab in 1997. A year later, Seth was in Alcoholics Anonymous and ahead of gigs, the band would regularly recite the AA prayer 'God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. The courage to change the things I can.' By 2000, he fell off the wagon and was arrested for throwing a chair out of a window while he was drunk. In a 2001 interview, Seth admitted he had spent three months in prison for attempted burglary and that he was regularly selling and using recreational drugs. Throughout the 2000s, Seth battled addiction and sought help on the reality TV shows Celebrity Rehab 1 and 2 and Sober House 1 and 2. His battle with drugs contributed to his split from his first wife Melissa Clark, who he tied the knot with in 2002 and divorced nine years later, citing irreconcilable differences. It's unclear when Seth and Melissa, who shared son Halo, parted ways but in 2008, he dated Tracy Selor, who he had another boy with, Gage. Jasmine Lennard had sole custody of his third son Phoenix, who had a strong relationship with his Dad until his death. 5 5
Yahoo
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
As a teen, Soleil Moon Frye's breast reduction made magazine covers. It taught the former 'Punky Brewster' star that 'people want you to stay little forever.'
Soleil Moon Frye has been in the public eye since she was a mismatched-shoed little girl on TV's Punky Brewster in the '80s. At 48, she feels like she's finally coming into her own. 'When we're really young, we have so much of that spark of who we want to be, of what we want to do and then, as life transpires, oftentimes we go on these different roads,' Frye tells Yahoo Life for our Unapologetically series. 'I personally feel like so much of the journey in my life — and this moment — has been guiding me back to who I really am and who I always was. Yet it took the path less traveled to get there.' Frye's path as of late has led her to documentary filmmaking. She helmed Paramount+'s two-part docuseries The Carters: Hurts to Love You, an exploration of how fame, mental illness and addiction led to singer Aaron Carter's death in 2022, told from the perspective of his twin sister, Angel Carter Conrad. Before that, Frye exposed her own experience growing up in Hollywood and losing friends to addiction and suicide in Kid 90, which was released by Hulu in 2021. She's currently completing a documentary about singer Shifty Shellshock, a childhood friend and ex-boyfriend who died from an accidental drug overdose in 2024. The projects come amid a larger period of self-discovery for Frye. She and her husband of more than 20 years, Jason Goldberg, who share four children, divorced in 2022. After their split, Frye reconnected with Crazy Town frontman Shellshock (real name: Seth Binzer), whom she had known as a teen. They went on to date, but ended their relationship prior to his death. 'It's been such a journey getting to this moment in time, and there's been so much love, faith, pain, grief,' she says. 'So many experiences of peeling back the onion.' Frye tells me about some of those layers — from growing up in a world that felt way too comfortable having discussions about her teenage body, to coming into her own as a filmmaker. I'm so thankful to be doing what I love each and every day. It makes me emotional because I love, love, love sharing stories … and to share stories that help create meaningful conversations is truly a dream. [Plus, there's been my own] self-discovery — through Kid 90 and [my old] diaries and what that brought up for me, the documentary [Werewolf and the Waves] I'm working on about [Shellshock] and The Carters, [which] led me into deeper empathy and compassion around looking at addiction as a disease. Every step has led me to right here, right now and I'm really thankful for it. It's been a beautiful, heart-wrenching journey to get here. In my 20s and 30s, there was a lot of wanting to make other people proud. … I cared what other people thought. … [My 40s have] been that process of unlearning and going: I have to do this because I love it and it feeds my soul. For a long time, I cared about what other people thought. I was really fortunate to have an incredible foundation at home and amazing family and friends and I look at our journey of growing up and growing up in the business [as] so colorful. There was so much fun and joy within our friendships. Some of my friends have gone on to have these incredible families and really healthy, exquisite lives and some of my friends didn't make it out. Some had struggles with their families and some had absolutely beautiful, stable families. … When you take mental illness and addiction and you combine that with money and fame and all of these other elements, then that can really implode. So many young people globally are struggling in front of their screens, while somebody else is liking, disliking or calling them out. This is a global crisis. I think about what a sensitive, loving, beautiful heart this young man had — and what becomes that breaking point? That certainly made me look at my own life. I remember wanting to please people and that doesn't even have to be something that your parents or the industry puts on you. It's something that you may put on yourself. But when you layer that, it can become explosive. Right? I had gone through this rapid development so early on as a teenager and feeling that objectification, all those layers. I can't even imagine doing it under the microscope of social media. That's what young people are going through — and I don't think we've begun to scratch the surface on what that looks like and what that means. I know. It's wild because I had [a breast] reduction and so much of that was health reasons — my back, all these different things — and then I remember it made it look like I had [other work done]. People were like, 'Oh, you did this and this and this.' No! What?! But I think we've lived so often in this sensationalist society where we love to build people up, and then we love to break them down. It was so surreal, and so crazy. I think so often when you grow up — and this is something that I related to with Aaron — is that when you play a character [like Punky], people want you to stay little forever. It's like they want to remember you as that little girl or boy. Then we grow up. I know for me, I went through such an awkward stage while trying to figure out who I was, who I wanted to be, in such formative years. So, as we were speaking earlier about coming back into myself, it's been such an incredible journey. One of the most incredible things has been that they're like, 'Oh, mom's been on this ride too.' I think that as much as we communicate and share stories about the awkward stages and our bodies, I think so much of it is inside. It's so internal. So you can make changes to your body, but so much of the work is the internal part of it. Something that is most important to me is us having conversations and not brushing things under the rug and looking within to get to the root of our experiences. I live in the bath a lot of the time — and I walk a lot. The last few docs were so intense and I remember there were days when I'd be on Zoom and I'd be like: 'Excuse me' and I'd have to [step away] because of the things that I was seeing or hearing. It was just so emotional. So meditation, walking, those are the things that I that I most lean into — and then my kids' arms. I feel like I'm graduating from my teens to my 20s. I'm entering my 20s. … I am still such a kid in so many ways. I have this joy for life and discovery and adventure and excitement that feels incredibly youthful — and at the same time, this incredible gratitude and appreciation for the experience. Sometimes I'll look at pictures of when I was in my teens and 20s, and I'm like, Look at that young woman and how beautiful and full of life she is. I really didn't see it at the time. I had so many insecurities. … I cared about what the world thought. I didn't have that level of self-love, so I wasn't really able to appreciate the beauty of what was. So I've really made it a point for myself, in this moment, that I really want to appreciate all the different versions of myself, so that when I'm 80, 90 or 100 years old, looking back, I can be like, Wow, you really were able to feel that moment and appreciate [it]. That's something that I work on on a regular basis. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
