

Binzer said his partner encouraged him to continue Crazy Town on his own.
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Mazur decided to settle down and focus on movie work. “We realized it would take a lot of touring to rebuild the brand to be in the place where we wanted to be … and we toured for a year.”

Years later, Binzer cleaned up and reunited with Mazur, and Shifty and Epic made another record, 2013’s “The Brimstone Sluggers.” Thinking that that’s what you always wanted to do until you do it and at a certain point you realize that’s not what you want to do.”īinzer became a drug addict, and instead of performing alongside Epic, he was on camera with Dr. It was both a blessing and a curse, a double-edged sword.”Īfter “Butterfly,” people wanted more pop songs from what had been a hard-rocking hip-hop group.īinzer learned some tough lessons about “the music business and having a lot of money and being a crazy kid. “It was surreal and everything I could have wished for. 1 in 13 countries on rock, pop and Latin charts,” Binzer said. all while completely ignoring the fact that he has abandoned his child.Crazy Town’s first record, “The Gift of Game,” included the smash hit “Butterfly” and brought instant fame. He has new hair plugs, a new sports car and veneers. He's going on Hawaiian vacations and buying expensive French bulldogs, walking red carpets. Yet he's telling family court there's no money and he's not visiting his son. "He and Soleil have confirmed all over social media that they have been working on this documentary for over a year. "He hasn't paid a single thing towards Gage's medical care and owes me over $64,000 in back payments for child support – I have asked him many times for help," Shellor revealed. Shellor said she simply wants Binzer "to fulfill his responsibilities from the courts so that his son can at least have a quality of life." According to Shellor, amid Binzer's lack of child support payments, she has "basically eaten through my savings." She added that as "the sole caregiver" for their son, she has "to make sure I'm available for his medical needs.


Shellor said that "in the beginning it seemed very glamorous, he would buy some cocaine and go to a Hollywood party, but it got much worse," to the point that Binzer was spending "thousands of dollars, drain the bank accounts, steal my possessions and pawn everything we had." After Shellor became pregnant with their son, who has diabetes and was recently hospitalized, she said she made the choice to "protect my son," leaving behind a four-year relationship with Binzer that left her financially drained and with PTSD in order to move back home to be with family in Las Vegas.Īlthough Shellor said her musician ex has paid some child support over the years, she explained that getting those payments has been difficult, adding that Binzer has not paid anything since before the pandemic. Shellor and Binzer first met at a nightclub in Hollywood in 2004 and were "inseparable from day one." Although they initially "had a good relationship," Binzer continued live "the rockstar lifestyle," which included drug use. She added that Binzer reportedly failed to pay child support, leaving Shellor struggling to make ends meet amid their son's medical costs. In a new interview with The Sun, Shellor, who dated the musician from 2004 until 2008, described Binzer as an absentee father to their 13-year-old son Gage. Crazy Town member Shifty Shellshock, real name Seth Brooks Binzer, has been dubbed a "deadbeat dad" by ex-girlfriend Tracy Shellor.
