Celebrities Who Died Young PHOTOS, Tupac Shakur, Cory Monteith, Heath Ledger, Michael Jackson & More
Hollywood is plagued by young celebrity deaths. EnStars put together a list of some of the tragic losses.
Cory Monteith: The Glee star died at the age of 31 from a mixture of heroin and alcohol while in a Vancouver hotel in July 2013.
Lee Thompson Young: The former Disney star was found dead in August 2013 in his home. He was 29. Up until his death, Young played Detective Barry Frost on Rizzoli & Isles since the show's premiere in 2010. His breakthrough role was playing the lead character on Disney's The Famous Jett Jackson from 1998 to 2001.
Amy Winehouse: The singer died at the age of 27 in July 2011 from alcohol poisoning.
DJ AM: The celebrity DJ, whose real name was Adam Goldstein, died in August 2009 from a combination of cocaine and prescription drugs. Goldstein dated Nicole Richie from 2003 to 2006.
Heath Ledger: The actor died from an accidental overdose of prescription pills. He died in January 2008 and was 28. He left behind a daughter, with whom he had with actress Michelle Williams.
Brittany Murphy: The actress died in December 2009 at the age of 31. While it isn't clear, the death is assumed to have been caused by a mix of prescription pills.
Aaliyah: The R&B singer died in August 2001 in a plane crash. She was only 22.
Tupac Shakur: The rapper was 25 when he was shot to death in September 1996.
Anna Nicole Smith The television personality died from a mix of prescriptions drugs in February 2007. She was 40.
Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes: The TLC member died in car crash in Honduras in April 2002 at the age of 36.
Kurt Cobain: Nirvana's lead singer committed suicide in April 1994, at the age of 27.
The Notorious B.I.G.: The rapper, whose real name was Christopher Wallace, died in March 1997 at the age of 24 after he was shot.
Michael Jackson: The King of Pop died in June 2009 from cardiac arrest. He was 50.
Whitney Houston: The singer drowned in her bathtub in a Beverly Hill hotel room. Her toxicology report stated that cocaine and several prescription pills were found in her system. She was 48.