Soloist of multi-platinum rock group Linkin Park Chester Bennington hanged himself in his own estate. As the media write, it happened in Palos Verdes Estates, California.

Bennington for a long time, he suffered from alcohol and drug addiction, because of which he had many problems.

TSN. Ua recalls the biography of the rocker.

The future legend of rock Chester Bennington was born on March 20, 1976 in Phoenix, Arizona. You can not call his childhood easy, because after the divorce of his parents, his mother took his brother and sister, and Chester stayed with another sister and father.

Despite the fact that in his teens he played musical instruments and was a member of the bands just like a musician, the main passion for the guy was vocal.

Already by the age of 16, Bennington tried almost all the range of alcohol and drugs, and a year later moved to his mother. A woman forbade her son to leave the house because of his terrible appearance and exhaustion.

The reason for this was prohibited substances.

As an exit, Chester began to flood the suffering with alcohol and already subsequently recognized himself as a chronic alcoholic.

From 1993 to 1997, Chester was the vocalist of the band Gray Daze, which was popular in the US. But after two recorded albums - "Wake me" in 1994 and ". No sun today "in 1997 decided to leave the band.

Later, the artist called his inspirers Madonna and Robert Plant from Led Zeppelin, and most importantly - Stone Temple Pilots. By the way, Bennington himself was called "Madonna in alternative music".

The personal life of the artist was quite family: for the first time he married Samantha Marie Alveolith in 1996, from whom the star had a son, Dreven Sebastian. However, the marriage broke up in 2005.

The second time he led the model Playboy Talindu Bentley in December 2005. On March 16, 2006, her second son was born, Tyler Lee. Also the couple adopted two more children: Jamie and Isaiah. November 11, 2011, Talinda gave birth to two girls, Lily and Lilu.

"I realized that I can be happy. No, I do not want to say that everything was bad with Samantha. There were very bright moments, but mostly things went wrong, we often quarreled. After our meeting with Talinda, I came to Samantha and asked her for a divorce, "- he recalled about marriages.

Interesting facts from the biography of Chester Bennington Star alias was Chazy Chaz (Chazy Chaz) He was a fan of the movie "Fight Club" Released shoes on behalf of their tattoo parlors Club Tattoo. It was carried out in collaboration with Etnies Had a lot of tattoos, among them - dragons, ring, unknown creatures, rose and two Japanese carp.

Liked to cook.

The death of Bennington has already stirred the Net - fans do not believe in Chester's suicide.