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Ex-Stone Temple Pilots, Velvet Revolver Frontman Scott Weiland Found Dead At 48

Ex-Stone Temple Pilots, Velvet Revolver Frontman Scott Weiland Found Dead At 48

Former Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver frontman Scott Weiland died Thursday night (Dec. 3) at the age of 48. The news has been confirmed with an official statement posted on his social media sites. TMZ has reportedly obtained audio of communications between the Bloomington, Minn., police department and the Hennepin County sheriff’s department that reveals that Weiland was not breathing when they arrived on the scene. The dispatcher conveyed that Weiland had possibly gone into cardiac arrest as the immediate cause of death. However, the underlying cause of death has yet to be revealed.