Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington has committed suicide.
TMZ reports the 41-year-old hanged himself at his Palos Verdes home near Los Angeles on Thursday morning.
Law enforcement officials say his body was found shortly before 9am.
The singer had a history of drug and alcohol abuse.
He had six children from his two marriages. He had been married to his second wife Talinda Ann Bentley, a former Playboy model, for 12 years.
Bennington's suicide came on the day of his late friend Chris Cornell's birthday. The Soundgarden rocker killed himself in May by hanging. Cornell would have turned 53.
Chester, as well as Linkin Park guitarist Brad Delson, had performed Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah' for the crowd of mourners at Cornell's funeral, many of whom were moved to tears.
Linkin Park was set to start touring at the end of July following the release of the bands latest album One More Light.
The frontman had been open about his history of substance abuse and admitted in one interview in 2011 that he had once been a 'full blown, raging alcoholic'.
He admitted to smoking pot after his parents divorced when he was 11. The drug use then spiraled into cocaine and meth.
Bennington also spoke out about being sexually abused as a seven-year-old, saying he had been molested by an older male friend.
'If I think back to when I was really young, to when I was being molested, to when all these horrible things were going on around me, I shudder,' he said in one interview.
He said he went to rehab for his drug and alcohol addiction after marrying his second wife and really began to change in 2007.
In a 2011 interview, he said he was sober.
'I don't drink. I choose to be sober now. I have drunk over the last six years, but I just don't want to be that person anymore.
Linkin Park's sixth and latest album, One More Light, jumped to the top of the Billboard chart when it was released in May.
The band has a string of hits including Faint, In the End and Crawling. They debuted their first album Hybrid Theory in 2000 and famously collaborated with JAY-Z in 2004 for Collision Course.
Bennington formed his own band, Dead by Sunrise, as a side project in 2005.
He was also the lead vocalist for Stone Temple Pilots from 2013 to 2015.
SOURCE TMZ & DAILYMAIL
