LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – FEBRUARY 12: Singer and producer Aaron Carter performs at the “Kings of Hustler” male revue at Larry Flynt’s Hustler Club on February 12, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Gabe Ginsberg/Getty Images)
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Singer Aaron Carter died Saturday at his California home, a source close to the family told NBC News. He was 34.
Deputy Alejandra Parra with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said deputies were called to his home on Valley Vista Drive in Lancaster just before 11 a.m. and found “a deceased person.”
Further details were not immediately available.
“We are extremely saddened and shocked to confirm the passing of Aaron Carter today,” his rep said in a statement. “At the moment his cause of death is being investigated. We ask that you give the family time and they will have more information when available. We cannot express the outpouring of love coming in.”
Carter, the brother of Nick Carter from the wildly popular Backstreet Boys, rose to fame as a pop star in the 1990s. He was open about mental health issues and drug addiction, saying during a 2019 interview on the television show “The Doctors” that he suffered from multiple personality disorder, schizophrenia, acute anxiety, and manic depression.
That same year, Nick Carter filed a restraining order against his younger sibling after he allegedly said he had thoughts of killing Nick’s wife.
