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| Chester Bennington dead: Linkin Park singer 'dies aged 41' | Chester Bennington dead: Linkin Park singer 'dies aged 41' |
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| Chester Bennington the lead singer of Linkin Park has reportedly been found dead. | Chester Bennington the lead singer of Linkin Park has reportedly been found dead. |
| Reports said the 41-year-old had been found inside his residence inside Palos Verdes Estates in Los Angeles, California. TMZ said he had taken his own life. | |
| The band was currently on its “One More Light” world tour, which was scheduled to stop at the Xfinity Center on July 27 in Mansfield, Massachusetts. | |
| A spokeswoman for the Palos Verdes Estates police declined to answer questions about whether Mr Bennigton had been found dead. She told The Independent: "At 8.56am officers were called to the 2800 block of Via Victoria" | |
| Los Angeles County coroner's office confirmed to Billboard there was a death on Bennington's Palos Verdes block on the morning of Thursday, July 20. | |
| The angst-ridden musician, who had long struggled with addiction to drugs and alcohol, had six children from his two marriages, the second of which, to Talinda Ann Bentley, for 12 years. | |
| Reports said that word of Bennington’s suicide came on the day of his late friend Chris Cornell’s birthday. | |
| The Soundgarden rocker killed himself in May and Bennington performed at his funeral. Cornell would have turned 53 on Thursday. |