DJ AM Found Dead in Manhattan Apartment; Intervention Special To Air Oct. 5

The summer of 2009 may soon be over, but it will forever be known as one of the most notorious celebrity-death ridden seasons ever. Add DJ AM, real name Adam Goldstein, to the list.

DJ AM was found dead this morning in an apartment on Lafayette Street in Manhattan.

Sources said drug paraphernalia was found in the apartment.

Travis Barker‘s ex-wife, Playmate Shanna Moakler, responded to news of DJ AM‘s death on Twitter, writing, “My deepest condolences for DJ AM, you were a great artist and will be severely missed. My thoughts and Prayers to his family and friends.”

DJ AM’s last post on Twitter, dated Tuesday, was a line from a Grandmaster Flash song: New York, New York. Big city of dreams, but everything in New York ain’t always what it seems.”

The news comes nearly a year after AM survived a plane crash along with Travis Barker. The two were the only ones to walk away alive in a tragedy that took the lives of four others. In an eerie twist of fate, AM had just recently completed filming an MTV show which saw him attempting to help those suffering the same problem he once had, drug addiction.

“I struggled for years as a drug addict and was fortunate to get help when I asked for it. I have managed to live a clean and sober life, something that takes work and something that I pride myself on. Gone Too Far’ is my platform to help people, like I was helped by giving back in a way. … We wanted to show how real it gets and what can happen if you don’t get help.”

Promoting the show in Los Angeles earlier this summer, Adam Goldstein told TV critics, “I’ve been a recovering addict for 11 years, and the only way I view sobriety: The only way I can keep it is if I give it away.” He also said that surviving the plane crash, which killed other passengers, is “something that I struggle with every day, you know, kind of wondering. But I’ve just realized I’m never really going to know. I’m alive, and I’m here, and I have another chance. So I have to do something better with my life this time.”

“Gone Too Far” will air on MTV on Oct. 5. Goldstein was 36.