Motley Crew vocalist Vince Neil couldn't have known what was
in store for him when he started out with the
band in 1981.
Since rising to stardom, he's certainly done his part to
promote the Rockstar lifestyle with plenty of drugs and booze.
Included here are tragic details of Vince Neils life story.
No parents wish to live long enough to bury their
child, but Vince Neil has been forced to face this
ultimate tragedy.
The singer lost his four year old daughter Skylar in
1995 when Neil himself was only 34.
Young Skylar was diagnosed with Wilms tumor, a form of
kidney cancer, at a time when Neil was just coming
back from a number of other personal and professional misfortunes.
She had to go through extensive chemotherapy, radiation treatments and
six operations, none of which were enough to save her
life.
Skylar Neil passed away on August 15th and 1995, and
the tragedy left Neil absolutely devastated.
He later said of the nightmarish experience.
This ordeal is something no parent should have to go
through.
More than that, I wish no child ever had to
go through it.
While Skylar was still fighting for her life, Neil wrote
a track called Skylar's Song in her honour.
Neil later included Skylar's Song on his solo album Carved
in Stone and announced that he would donate all the
proceeds of the song to charity.
The singer also sets up the Skylar Neil Memorial Fund,
which has since raised millions for children's cancer recently.
Search members of Mötley Crüe are well known for being
fairly dangerous types of stage, but it seems Vince Neil
is all too happy to bring some of that danger
to the workplace too.
1 sound man named Michael Talbert reportedly found this out
the hard way when Neil attacked him in the middle
of the concert and actually punched him out.
The sound man said that during a solo concert in
October 2004, Neil suddenly ran at him while he was
looking at his monitor.
The singer first tried to kick him and when the
initial attack missed, Neil resorted to punching and knocking The
poor sound man out called for a good 45 seconds.
The police report attached to the arrest warrant says the
attack appeared to be motivated by the sound man not
turning the guitars up high enough to Neil's immediate approval.
The musician had apparently notion to Talbot for more guitar
volume, but as the man was making adjustments, Neil unexpectedly
ran across the stage, leaped onto the sound board and
attacked.
This curious form of not so constructive criticism may have
played a part in the subsequent cancellation of the singers
planned UK tour.
Hey, hey, wow.
Warm.
That's it.
Done.
On December 8th, 1984, Vince Neil's passion for fast cars
and mind altering substances led to a disaster.
That night, Mötley Crüe was in the middle of an
epic drinking binge with members of Hanoi Rocks, an up
and coming Finnish band, when they suddenly realized they needed
more alcohol.
Neil was drunk already but volunteered to make a quick
booze run and Hanoi Rocks drummer Nicholas Razzle Dingley decided
to accompany the singer to the liquor store.
It was a fatal mistake.
Neil tried to go around a fire truck and ended
up losing control of his sports car and slamming into
oncoming traffic.
Neil escaped with cracked ribs and minor cuts, but two
other drivers on the road were severely injured.
Meanwhile, Dingley was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital
for his part in the lethal incident.
Neil got away with barely a slap on the wrist.
He received 30 days in jail, of which he only
served 15, five years of probation and 200 hours of
community service.
He also had to pay $2.6 million to the people
he had.
But while his legal consequences were light, his peers never
forgot what he did.
Hanoi Rugs guitarist Andy McCoy says Neil has never apologized
for the incident.
And Twisted Sisters D Snyder has gone even further in
expressing his disdain, questioning how Neil was able to walk
free after, quote, literally killing someone.
He'd be forgiven for thinking that any marriage to a
guy as volatile as the Mötley Crüe front man is
doomed to fail.
Because history shows that you'd be absolutely right.
Vince Neil has been married and divorced four times over
the years.
However, he seems to be aware of his less than
stellar track record because he has promised himself that he'll
never get hitched again.
So what exactly keeps causing Neil's marriages to fail?
The man himself has only spoken vaguely about the subject,
but his ex wives don't necessarily share that tendency.
Neil's autobiography, Tattoos and Tequila, includes interviews from all of
the singers.
For My spouse says, when Neil abstains from going into
the particulars of a divorce, he's swiftly countered by an
interview with an ex.
It was usually or too happy to point out that
the singers constant cheating with groupies contributed to the marriages
falling apart.
Whether he's winning Academy Awards or screaming about B's and
B movie, you can always count on Nicolas Cage to
be interesting.
Sometimes this involves fighting Vince Neil to submission.
Reportedly, Cage and Neil were hanging out at the Aria
Hotel in Las Vegas in 2016 when a fan approached
the pair and asked for Cage's autograph.
For reasons known only to him, Neil took a front
to this and dragged the fan to the ground by
her hair.
Cage understandably did not care for such behaviour and the
situation escalated.
A heated altercation between a famous actor and a famous
singer on the Last Vegas Strip.
Yeah, there were plenty of cameras rolling.
The footage of the end of the situation didn't make
Neil look too good, as Cage easily restrained the stumbling
singer while screaming at him in front of many on
the Because the incident ended with Neil in legal hot
water for misdemeanor battery, the musician eventually pleaded guilty and
agreed to a deal that helped him avoid prison time
and get away with a mere 6 months of probation
and the $1000 fine.
Being in an ultra successful rock band seems like a
lucrative gig, but nothing can save you if you're bad
at managing your money.
Vince Neil is one of many celebrities who have been
unable to hang on to their considerable riches.
Perhaps his lowest financial point came in 2005 when he
had to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy after amassing A
hefty $1.5 million in assorted debts.
Then again, some would say that the lowest point actually
came five years later when the attorney who had taken
care of said bankruptcy proceedings sued Neil because the singer
had failed to pay 16,000 dollars in fees.
Though Motley Crue's Reunion and Korea Revival that seemed to
keep the money coming in, Neil still appears to have
a habit of neglecting his legal bills.
In 2018, the singer's legal team threatened to drop him
due to $190,000 of legal fees that he reportedly refused
to pay, despite the fact that the legal team was
still representing Neil in an ongoing assault case.
Members of Mötley Crüe have been known to lay their
hands on the occasional lady, but Vince Neil's hands may
not always be intended for loving.
Although he has yet to face a charge that truly
sticks, multiple lawsuits have alleged that Neil is not above
getting physical in a very wrong way.
In 2003, Neil faced charges for allegedly battering a prostitute
and Nevada's feigned illegal brothel, Moonlight Bunny Ranch.
Neil pleaded no contest to the ensuing misdemeanor battery charge
and was ordered to pay a $1000 fine and take
anger management classes.
According to the civil lawsuit later filed by the woman,
she told Neil he needed to pay $4000 to have
sex with her and another Bunny Ranch worker.
Neil allegedly reacted by grabbing her by the neck and
pushing her against the window sill and then pulling her
to the floor.
Whether Neil ever actually attended those anger management classes or
not, it looks like their effects may not have been
all that lasting.
In a later incident in 2011, the singer's ex-girlfriend, Alicia
Jacobs, filed a battery charge against Neil after an alleged
incident of domestic violence left her with visible bruises.
Neil was charged with disorderly conduct and battery domestic violence,
but ultimately got the more serious domestic battery charge dropped
after pleading guilty to disorderly conduct and coughing up another
$1000 fine.
Vince Neil doesn't talk about drugs as much as bandmate
to Nicky 6:00, but that doesn't mean he's a lightweight
or the opposite.
In fact, Neil has said he was heavily into drugs
before Motley Crew even existed.
His early cocaine habit was reportedly so severe that when
the band was playing club gigs and taking its first
baby steps, the rest of the crew actually stepped in
and forced Neil to stop shooting so much coke.
You heard that right?
Not snorting coke, but the much, much more dangerous method
of injecting the drug intravenously.
Our Rd.
Manager said.
Look, told our managers you send these guys to Europe,
one of them's going to come back in a body
bag.
Still, clean living was not the Mötley Crüe way.
Neil says he tried to straighten himself out a few
times, but the rock band environment was not exactly conducive
to sobriety.
While the vocalist has always been critical of rehab programs,
of which he has attended many, he says he finally
managed to kick drugs at the turn of the Millennium.
The singer does have other vices, of course.
Neil hints in the interview that he might have a
fairly unhealthy relationship with gambling and says he has not
given up drinking all the alcohol might be the vice
he has the hardest time kicking Vince Neil has been
described by the AV club as rock's most infamous drunk
driver, and with good reason.
His most famous and tragic drunk driving incidents as the
aforementioned 1984 crash that killed Nicholas razzle dingley but even
that notorious episode did little to scare Neil straight.
He was arrested for drunk driving in 2007 when the
Las Vegas police became suspicious of the less than controlled
maneuvers he was pulling in his Ferrari.
However, he managed to cut a deal with the execution
and pleaded no contest to a reckless driving charge to
avoid the DUI.
Even that was not enough for Neil, and in 2010,
he was once again arrested for the same reason in
the same city, and this time with the added suspicion
of breaking a fan's camera before stepping behind the wheel.
In fact, just days earlier, he was promoting his autobiography
and saying he had quit both drugs and alcohol for
good.
The singer couldn't avoid pleading guilty to a misdemeanor DUI
and was given two weeks of jail time and two
weeks of house arrest.
It should come as no surprise that Vince Neil has
a sex tape out there.
Neil's foray into the amateur adult genre was actually a
semi pro effort, as it features adult film star Janine
Linda Mulder as well as a woman called Brandy Sanders,
who Neil says was responsible for selling the video in
1999.
Evidently, her plan backfired quite badly.
According to Neil, Sanders eventually had to change her name
multiple times to distance herself from the tape.
Neil himself seems to have made his peace for the
movie's existence.
His attitude is that since he can't really do anything
about about it, there's no point in fighting it.
There was quote a lot of wine involved and things
went as they went.
However, he does admit that telling his wife about starring
in a sex video was a quote tricky conversation.
Yeah.