Layne Staley Last Home: Inside His Condo
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- Опубликовано: 31 мар 2021
- This was the last home of Alice in Chains singer Layne Staley. He was found deceased inside this condo. These photos were taken from when his home was put on the market in 2017. I don't know how much of this condo is original or if remodeling was done since his death, but this was the condo where the Alice in Chains singer spent his final years.
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My 10th grade teacher lived a few doors down from Layne Stayley he said he was very quiet and didn’t get out much and when he did interact with him he seemed like a nice guy. It was a shame that he saw paramedics at Layne’s apartment and he knew it was him. RIP Layne❤️🤘🏻
Just out if curiosity were you in the tenth grade hearing this from him at the time of his story or was this later on some time that your teacher was sharing memory?
Yeah that's why I push myself to get outside. He was quite a guy.
Why is it a shame that the paramedics were in his apartement ? They had to check on him !
@@ilfbforever7292 obviously because they knew he was dead
Following up ya know.. what was your 10th grade teacher's name?
People seem to be wed to their fantasies. When a person dies like Layne did, the law requires biohazard clean up. They often have to rip up carpet and remove whatever needs to be removed if it’s had any contact or in vicinity to the deceased. Layne was dead in there for approx TWO WEEKS before he was found. Do you know what decomp stage a body is in at that point? Well, I do. I believe his mom said he was sitting on the couch and the police told his mom, you don’t want to go in there, but she said, I can take it, I promised my children I’d be there for them no matter what.
There would be fluids on the couch from lividity and the bacteria from decomp just soaks through everything. The human body releases fluids all over the place, so a cleaning company specializing in bio hazard decomp would’ve had to come and spray powerful chemicals, remove all couch and likely the carpets. The condo was built in 1996, so there’s next to no way that this place wasn’t recarpeted and painted after Layne died. I mean, 10-20 days after you die, you literally start to ferment. His body was sick when he was alive, so imagine what his body, in death, along with all the drugs staining everything, his not cleaning it. There was also drug paraphernalia all around him, and that would also need to be carefully disposed of and anything that was near that decay would have to go. Also, there were heroine stains trailing from the bathroom to the living room, used needles under Layne and all over the kitchen counter. There was also a loaded syringe of heroin in his hand-yes, in his deceased hand. There were drugs everywhere and the place was trashed. That’s very dangerous. They’d have had to do some serious cleaning and removal and I’d bet it sat even after clean up while his estate was settled and it would’ve been likely necessary to do an overhaul all at once. Layne was in terrible shape in the throes of addiction. Even the most beautiful home is usually just like you’d imagine where a junkie is existing. It’s awful, but the truth. That condo was an AWFUL mess and a hazard that required some serious cleaning and probably some remodeling, most definitely carpet, deep cleaning with scene cleanup and fresh paint. That’s at minimum. These photos should conjure nothing of what Layne life or perspective was like. His mindset, his death, and what he left behind would. It’s absolutely heartbreaking.
I’ve seen this unit before it was on market in 2017. The bedroom is redecorated, the couches are different, the patio is different. My guess is that it was redone and spiffed up for market.
But it had a major remodel from 1996 when Layne had it. In particular, the kitchen and bathroom. I’d guess the living room is similar and the master bedroom. I also recall that, at the end of his life, Layne had blocked up all the windows.
That’s very sad. There a ton of beautiful window space there. He was trying to block out the world.
Before that, though, he did go to a bar, The Blue Moon Tavern, on the corner because everyone there knew to give him his privacy and left him alone. At the end, he barely left that condo.
More facts: the condo was first sold in 2003, just a year after his death. It went (about $330,000). Then it was sold again in 2014 ($550,000). Gonna guess that the remodel happened at that time because the place looks similar from 2014 and 2017 when it was sold again. The 2003 buyer lived there for ten years and I can’t imagine it increased in value that much even in ten years without considering an investment in a remodel. Likely the bathroom and kitchen needed it, and needed updated appliances and fixtures. Also, that the neighborhood changed tremendously, with gentrification and so much of what Seattle was like for the grunge rockers like Layne is all gone. Places. The scene. The vibe. Sad.
It’s all so sad. It’s AWFUL to sit and imagine a beautiful creative genius, 6 foot 1 and all of 86 lbs just holed up drinking, drugging, weak, making art with spray cans. I imagine he felt as physically terrible as he did emotionally.
He was claiming to have had visions of Demri, and I personally think that his addiction and all hope of him coming out of it were crushed by the loss and guilt he felt when she died in 1996. He was overcome with pain and guilt and couldn’t forgive himself. He was just trying desperately to avoid that horrible pain and feelings that he’d lost everything, lost control. He damaged his body. He punished himself and that speed ball pushed his poor body over the edge and he accidentally overdosed. Just too much for a weak, sick, drugged body, organs fighting under the strain, malnourished, rotten teeth. He just lost it and that’s that.
So not to be crude, but there were a bunch of not famous Laynes doped up who suffered the same fate, and back then, the 90s scene in Seattle was really tough. A lot of drugs, sensitive people who k ew each other but did drugs together because they didn’t like the world around them and wanted change. They really wanted a revolution and felt deeply. But the cost is that they were all doing the thing, but the escapism, the drug use made it impossible to really relate and take care, so it was lonely and could feel hopeless. These were the rock stars who didn’t know how or want to be rock stars, but wanted to be part of something meaningful, creative, through music. They were speaking to a generation. To mine.
I adored AIC and Layne. They were my college years, and the best times but boy did I go through it, and the music took hold of me, it reflected my feelings.
I don’t want to connect with Layne through a condo unit that was a prison for him. It wasn’t a sanctuary. He may have envisioned it as such, but it’s not how it went down.
It wasn’t all shiny and bright and beautiful. It was a dark, scary, disaster where he lost himself and died alone. Nooner should die alone. His body sat there for two weeks while the tv flickered and his poor kitty was in there scared and alone, too. He didn’t mean to die, but his else would it have ended under those circumstances.
Layne has a tremendous legacy, and part of that is a chance for his family to help addicts and at risk youth so they don’t die alone like he did.
Life went on and this condo did not sit there empty for years. It had to be gutted clean if all that happened there. It’s so sad.
No fantasies.
Missing you, Layne! Spent August celebrating and reminiscing. Been listening to Sap a ton. Your beautiful voice. 😞😢 Ugh, I cant. I miss you and all we lost and those times! Some were hard, but damn were they so much fun, and SO much better. Just the truth.
If you’d have been healthy and happy, this lovely place would be amazing for you. But it turned out to be you running away inside yourself, inside your mind where the space was dark and painful, and you were lost. I’m so very sorry. 😞 Thank you for everything. 🙏
Really good insight. Layne definitely didn't want a revolution. He wasn't political and he didn't want or like being called grunge. The other thing is that this isn't a lovely place anymore. We are living through a technofascist takeover and I wish everyday that I'd been lucky enough to go beforehand. If I could have been born earlier in time. I wish I was on my way out.
Innit
What ended up happening with his cat after he was found? Did the cat starve? Also, what was his cat's name?
@@kennypowers3984 Jerry Cantrell took care of Layne's cat.
@@jonusjaxon That is cool 😎
Nicer place than I imagined in my mind. Possibly because it was such a dark time in his life. RIP Layne
I thought the same thing!
@@FreyzelProductions Yea that’s a really nice condo. The outdoor patio is pretty cool but he probably never even stepped out there.
Way nicer and larger than I imagined.
@@SKOJCV I can envision him sitting out there while smoking a cigarette
@@lottofever3061 He probably had a sofa that he hardly ever left from shooting up and playing videos games. I'm sure his place was absolutely littered with paraphernalia everywhere, at least according to reports after his passing. Hard to picture.
Imagine being there not knowing.....
I used and was "running and gunning" strung out on heroine for 20 years running around that neighborhood and had no clue that that was where I'm my eyes the only lead singer of alice in chains had lived and tragically met his demise to heroine and cocaine.
It looks great but obviously the decor is new and shiny, not Layne's decor. So, besides the windows and the great balcony/patio, which I'm glad to see he had, this doesn't represent Layne.
That is true, but still cool to see inside the place he lived. I’ve never been able to find what it looked like when he lived there.
wtf do you know
This isn’t about representing him, it’s a tour of a place he used to live.
You are right.
I watch this with such a heavy heart noing that Layne passed away in the lounge room keep coliding with the star's Layne ⭐❤️
His music comforted me and let me know i wasnt alone when i was struggling to stay sober in my late 20s and early 30s . im 43 now and i cant listen to AIC much anymore because it just reminds me of dark dark era of my life and Laynes voice haunts me.
@@Xenilolix his voice huants me to but it just reminds me of how presouse life is good luck and keep reaching for the star's
All us Layne fans know the Condo's address very well. I'm an Aussie and, unfortunately, have never been to America (Seattle I wish to visit before I die...the home of Grunge🤘🏻) but I've Google Earthed his condo. The interior looks a lot nicer than last time it was shown. Beautiful actually. Sad to see where the legend drew his last breath😔
I went to Layne's tribute show in Seattle this year and I parked my car in the lot that his balcony overlooks. Surreal.
@@Fluttergirl I bet it was surreal. That would be so awesome. I'm an Aussie and have never been outside of Australia but I'd LOVE to see Seattle. To walk the same streets and visit the same places as Layne and Kurt would have me die a happy girl. Seattle is my Disneyland😁.
Edit-I didn't realise I already said I'm an Aussie wanting to see Seattle etc...pretty much repeated myself. Sorry.
The greatest singer of all time
a beautiful place to live, a very sad ending to such a great talent.
Indeed. Great university area as well. Lots to do all the time.
“ THERES NOTHING WORSE THAN WASTED TALENT” RIP Layne...
A Bronx Tale fan?
I don’t know about that… I can think of a few things. I bet you could, too, if pressed.
@@paulotonedef A Bronx Tale.. watch it… it’s a quote..
@@rocknrolla2426 you know it.. plus, it’s true.. very sad ..
Layne did NOT waste his talent ... he gave us as much as he could ..
Layne told a friend "If I knew being an Artist was going to be so hard with all the Public scrutiny, I would of stayed dealing weed"
1:11 cat door for Sadie
Likely custom installed you can see there’s a second door extruded outward.
The great ones always leave the party too soon don’t they?.. forever 34.
Layne's corpse sat in that living room decomposing for 2 weeks.
As if everyone doesn’t already know the address and unit number. I hitchhiked to Seattle with a friend to try to meet Layne in 2001. The place has been nicely remodeled. Kitchen is different, the carpet is clean, bathrooms redone etc. The place looks MUCH nicer than when we were there.
That’s awesome. Did you ever see him go to the coffee shop or anything during that trip?
@@FreyzelProductions No. Come to think of it, I don’t remember seeing him eat even one time…
@@donaldlove4547 did you end up meeting him?
please tell us more, myself and the fans out there would really value any details you can recall of your experience around Layne and his condo
@@donaldlove4547 To be one of the very last people to have seen him or interacted with, wow. I envy those few workers that worked the Toys R Us he’d go to
Layne had everything, a beautiful home, fame, money he just could not overcome his addiction, so sad but he was fighting a no win battle, and as most of us do, suffered severely trying!
That "everything" you talk about is nothing without happiness, and that's what he didn't have.
A drug addict ... it can be created. He was happy and fun. He got into hard drugs and it takes all your good feelings away .. it sucks you dry. He was playing party on rock star and got trapped
Sadness and depression can make many people self medicate. I was raised by two heroin addicts and what those lovely people went through I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. Also, unless you've done it you can't imagine how physically painful and frightening it is to discontinue opiates. Medical providers do nothing to make it less terrifying because assistance is minimal and judgement is plentiful. If someone chooses not to transition to a replacement maintenance opiate they are left to tough it out on their own with inadequate medication to alleviate the symptoms. Rock meet hard place.
So nice I wouldn’t leave either... rip layne
This place looks really nice and peaceful.
My beautiful Layne is missed so much 😔❤️
Wow thank youu
You’re very welcome. Thanks for watching!
I couldn't live there,I'm sorry 😔💔
What an awesome pad. Very sad that all Layne ended up doing in it is playing video games, shoot dope, and smoke crack. Having so much to live for and seeing no way out is a horrible fate.
Music industry provides dope to their new talents ( sorry for my english). This is what makes them into addiction and kills them. Because it's a dirty business.
@@markdelavier5601 Layne was doing dope long before the industry fed it to him. Hell his father was a junkie.
@@markdelavier5601 no lol
@@Oriolesfun Ape lol
He was there alone creating his own world through drugs. For Layne there was no escape. He was destined to die.
Everyone of us is destined to die
I think it's a shame but yet I know how he feels. Not anybody's fault I had to think about this for a while I don't know if your pressure of the industry or his girlfriend I think with his girlfriend gone it leaned more toward that. Reading in his lyrics he he often fought back with his lyrics especially in sludge factory. I can say this because I really relate to him and I have done this before when we get into that mode where we are going to commit suicide we will look very happy and not that anyone know we are Masters at it. I'm so glad I'm out of that mode now. His music today helps me I seen sometimes 10 hours a day and now walks on the beach. The walking part on the beach dramatically improve me that I am now taking two walks on the beach that that's where I'm at now. I think we all help each other out in an in certain ways thank you LAYNE STAYLEY. RIP I really think we can all move on now and not think that you're the blame or anyone else I think ultimately it comes down on us we decide that there's only so much you can do 🙏👍.
No wonder he was so proud of his condo investment. Nice place. Being stoned there would have been amazing, i can see his angle now. I certainly miss his work, funny how the world plays us all out.
heroin.. drugs are pure evil i cant fathom how everyone thinks its cool to do these things each is a gateway to the next and yes most people dont go down the path but a huge amount do.. RIP to a great artist really pissed at him for what he did though and his family and bandmates
I wonder what it actually looked like back in the 90's, early 2000's when he lived there. These are modern style upgrades, specially the kitchen. It would be neat to see what his personal home decor style was. Seeing Jerry's MTV cribs, he had a Ranch family farm style.
I kinda hope the new owners/tenants don't know, and certainly aren't disturbed by any fans. I'd bet anything though that he could've passed fans in the street and they wouldn't have recognized him.
I’m sure they know because of psycho fans knocking on their door
I've been a MASSIVE fan of the guy for ages but going there and hassling the tenants is extremely disrespectful to them and Layne's passing. Some people have no form.
I'd definitely recognise him for sure but people have met him,even after Dirt's release and success, but didn't know it was him until they were told. They were kicking themselves...as you would😆
I wouldn’t be able to live there knowing that someone, especially Layne, rotted away in there for two weeks. It would haunt me.
He went home heaven
Very nice place
im a seattle local, and this is in the U-District. Ive walked past here so many times just to get some boba in the U-Village. Its a beautiful place, but gives me the worst vibes while walking past it.
I’ve heard that about the bad vibes from many people. Seems like a pretty creepy place just knowing the history of it.
Nice condo, I'm guessing it might have looked similar when Layne lived there (tho more 90s, probably darker wood everywhere). I see they managed to make it "condo bland" in order to sell it. I'd love to think that Layne made it look extra special or more colorful for himself (as artists do), but by that point, probably all he cared about was heroin, so he undoubtedly cared very little about what his home looked like. He bought it for around $250,000, so its value increased 3 fold. What infamy to live there, just knowing its terrible past.
20 years he died tomorrow, happy birthday mike Starr…
That balcony is sick
Nice pad. Concrete building, top floor unit, two levels suite, three bedrooms, looks to be about 2,000 sqft. Big but not ostentatious. I'm sure he could have afforded more.
Now. Yes. Probs not then. Takes a while for Royalties to roll in there are debts to be paid to the record company etc
I heard he owned the entire building
@@kayal5905no, he owned 5c . The unit on left top facing front of building.
Is not hard to find this building address :)) It is everywhere.
I was def imagining something like that with a view of the city nice and close to Layne so he can go score. Which is the main intent of making an alias to buy the condo. John Larusta 😂
beautiful condo but I must say it would be creepy to live in it now knowing that is use to be a drug den and eventually a rock star would be found.
I completely agree.
I would be creeped out sleeping inside this place.
I gotta wonder if his ghost maybe in some way haunts the place ge died in
I’ve always wondered that too!
@@FreyzelProductions I hope that layne is at peace and in a better place where his demons can no longer get the better of him....myself I will never deny my maker
I sure hope so too, he was one of my all time favorites.
EDIT : @0:50 he died in this room.
I got the window confused with the one in bedroom. He died on a coach that was up against the window. With the lights off, his deeamcast still on and a loaded syringe in his hand.....
I thought his mom said she found him sitting up on the couch in front of his projection screen television? Are you sure this was the room?
@@jimmythepirate494 edited comment. It was the room @0:50. I got the window confused.
@@jimmythepirate494 In Celebrity Rehab, Nancy talks about walking over to the dining room area and asking the police if she could move things off of the couch to sit and talk to her son. So fucking sad 😔
It was an amazing place to live in.
0:51 Layne died right where that coach is against the wall w the large windows. His mother and stepfather found him on April 20 2002 after she had police kick in his door.
Thanks. Was wondering where that was. Just morbid curiosity…
Funny how people just guess where his furniture was placed lol! His buddy that has been to his condo said he didn't have much furniture only a leather couch in the middle of the room facing his big screen to play video games.
@@echo11810 Exactly what I always read/heard. His furniture was pretty scant..he wasn't really in to material shit
@@nelliesilvers1210 - When you’re completely addicted to smack, you live in a totally different world than the world we live in. What’s normal for us doesn’t mean shit to them. There’s no such thing as a smack addict that’s materialistic. All they care about is that next fix.
@@ButtScootBJJ I've been a heroin addict for over 20 years. My loved ones and cherished items they've bought me have always been special to me. I've hocked my own stuff...jewellery, electric guitars & amps (losing those really hurt), CDs, flash stereo etc over the years but I tend to hold on to my sentimentality. Anything I've hocked that a loved one bought me has been EXTREMELY rare and I made sure I got them back. My family are still everything to me. My addiction never changed that
There was actually a nice flower vase in the area where he was found on his couch. I have a feeling that wasn't an accident.
thats crazy. never heard that before. thank you.
@@mikeoconnell1272 yeah for sure!
I do need to correct something though because I don't know why I said "found ON his couch" when Layne was in fact sitting on the floor up against the front of the couch. I'm one for details and truth so I wanted to clarify that. The vase is more near the wall like where the couch sat which is obviously a better place aesthetically as to not be so far from the wall.
@@clevername8832 how do you know this?
@@mikeoconnell1272 I've watched a lot of documentaries and read tons of articles. It's available into that I've picked up along my journey. But how do I know what exactly? I don't know for sure why the vase is was there. It was also just the pre furnishings in the condo that where placed to advertise and sell it years later so it likely isn't like that now but in this video you can see the vase. Between that and the way I've read the room is described in articles about when Nancy and the police found him and others being there in concern for him. I know it's where he died so it only made sense to me that that's why the vase was there since the real estate agent responsible for arranging the condo surely knew the homes story.
@@mikeoconnell1272 okay I just watched this video again and realized that this is later pictures likely more recently of real estate ads. The video with the case is one by a RUclipsr who visited the building. Let me get you a link.
I wonder if it's haunted
I was wondering the same thing.
It would be bad ass to hear ya's in the middle of the night
I’d blast rooster in that place
he wasnt an evil soul
Lol it would be a win win either way, either your house isn’t haunted. Or you get to tell ppl about how your house in haunted by the ghost of layne Staley
$800,000 in 2017 and today probably worth more than 1 million! I believe Layne bought it for under $400,000.
He got it for like 250k in 96 I believe.. very good price for that big of a condo.
The last place where the Leo was seen
I wonder if a fan lives there now.
Friend of mine visited Layne before he passed, you literally would walk in and hear the crunch of syringes underneath your foot. He never talks about it. Poor guy. Tough shit.
Got any other stories about his visit?
anymore stories?
@Kevin Rodriguez yes, he did unfortunately
I often wonder what it must have been like for his condo neighbors. Was he quiet? Did he play loud music? Was he gaming all hours of the day and night? (that's probably a given) Did they hear him going in & out at all hours? Were they afraid of him? They had to have known who was living in their building, right?
@@jeffdean7666i know he liked animal crossing
@@jeffdean7666 Ik he played Resident Evil, Road Rash 2 and Sonic. The very last photo we have of him on Halloween 1998 he’s in a Metal Gear Solid shirt he got for pre-ordering the game. Also there’s a single post on iFunny of someone saying they met a guy who traded Pokémon with Layne, and still has it, but that’s iFunny so who knows if that’s true. There’s a woman named Stephanie Royce who worked at the Toys R Us he frequented, and said he’d come in a lot and buy playstation games. To know his personal favs would be dope
@@jeffdean7666 he played metal gear solid and others
Thats exactly like every junky house i been in
I could chill there. No need for dope.
Is this orginal? I mean as far as interior not furniture
I would guess this has been renovated at least to some degree but I can’t say 100%
I wonder if Layne gets along with the new tenants?
Umm, what do you mean?
He isnt there anymore.
Lol
He's talking about his ghost. Lol
Wouldnt it be cool if you could hear his distant giggle in the middle of the night ❤
Damn. Hard to look at where the rooster finally got snuffed
Layne wasn't the Rooster. That is Jerry Sr. Jerry's Dad.
Jerry’s dad was the rooster not layne lmfao. Layne was more like, junkhead (=
He laid there dead for 2 weeks ....I couldn't live there too creepy
I wonder how much Layne Bought it for
@Kevin Rodriguez Whoa, those guys really made good money seeing as Layne didn't work the last couple of years and lived in this beautiful condo
Why was it sold so long after layne had passed?
I was wondering the same thing. I’m not sure if his family owned it after or if it was sold after his death to someone else.
@@FreyzelProductions would be nice to find out? I'm guessing his mother held onto it as I'm pretty sure everything would have gone to her including laynes share of Alice royalties.
@@FreyzelProductions ofcourse his family owned it
It was sold in October 2003. It has been sold twice again since then, this are the latest refurbished pictures.
@@genericusername2532 wow.. so relatively quick after he died and people dont seem to hang onto it for long. You can see why layne liked it very private but has the positives that a house offers with the lovely outdoor space
Suicide is what it was,he just took his time!
What happened to the cat though?
I’m pretty sure Jerry adopted the cat.
Jerry had Sadie till she died in 2010
Imagine the cat started eating him it happens he was not being fed for 2 weeks
@@mikeyetman8407 It wasn't an accidental overdose. He over fed the cat but probably never thought he would be sitting there dead for 2 friggen weeks. If his cat had ate him she would of gotten hepatitis and never would of lived 8 more years. It makes me sick every time I think about it. How does his MOTHER not have the door kicked in on DAY 2 of not talking to her obviously very frail son. His accountants are the ones that rang the alarm bells. Not his so called family or friends his damn accountants. UNREAL.
Wish you had longer more informational videos these two minutes don’t do anything for me or the subject..
Same building but not the same place. The angles doesn't match
Is it true that was living from living off Ramen noodles and Nutrition Drinks? It's all a big puzzle
I’ve lived off of Benzedrine and Gatorade for 38 years 🤷🏻♂️🤣
NOT what it looked like at all
That wasn't his place. I didn't see a dead guy on the couch and needles on the table.
Because there were no pictures taken of the scene
@@zackmccrea4731of course there were brah by police or coroner
Yeah you're right my bad
These pictures are from Zillow....lame
I came across these while researching some things on Layne and AIC and several people asked to see them. Fans curiosity is there to see them regardless but thanks for your positivity :)
@@FreyzelProductions I appreciated it.