Shifty Shellshock's manager reveals Crazy Town star's disturbing final request before dying of overdose READ MORE: Shifty Shellshock's wild life as he battled crippling addiction By Marjorie Hernandez West Coast News Editor For Dailymail.Com Published: 17:00 EDT, 1 July 2024 | Updated: 17:41 EDT, 1 July 2024 e-mail 5 shares View comments About 24 hours before Shifty Shellshock was found dead, the Crazy Town front man was begging friends for money. His manager, Howie Hubberman, told DailyMail.
com Shifty - whose real name was Seth Binzer - told him he planned to go to a halfway house and needed the funds to get back on his feet. In reality, Binzer was renting a room inside a flophouse in a drug and gang-infested part of the Koreatown area near Downtown Los Angeles . 'He wanted about $600 and told me he wanted to go to a sober living house,' Hubberman said.
'But he knew that at a sober living house, he would be out in a day or two because they don't tolerate anything.' Howie Hubberman, who managed Seth Binzer for nearly two years, said the musician asked him for money the day before he was found dead in a home in LA Hubberman said Binzer 'never got clean' and was paying about $30 to $50 per night to stay at the Koreatown flophouse. The manager said he put his foot down and refused to give his client and friend the money because he knew Binzer 'needed tough love'.
About five months ago, Hubberman said he gave Binzer $300 for a gig in Phoenix but the singer-rapper never showed up..
