Vince Neil Biography | Vince Neil

Vince Neil(full name: Vincent Neil Wharton) is an American musician, best known as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Mötley Crüe.

He is best known as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Mötley Crüe which he co-founded in 1981, but he has also released three albums as a solo artist.

He is known for his turbulent personal life which has led to multiple arrests and convictions, including one for vehicular manslaughter.

Vince Neil Age

Vince Neil. Vincent Neil Wharton is an American musician. He is the lead singer of the heavy metal band Mötley Crüe.

Vince is 58 years old as of 2019. He was born on 8 February 1961, in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States

Vince Neil Height

Vincent Neil Wharton is an American musician. He is best known as the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Mötley Crüe which he co-founded in 1981, but he has also released three albums as a solo artist.

Vince Neil has a decent height of 5 feet and 9 inches and weighs around 74 kg. Furthermore, he has blonde hair and dark brown hair.

Skylar Lynnae Neil Cancer | Sylar Lynnae Neil Death

Skylar was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer in April 1995 and died four months later.

Skylar came down with flu symptom in early April of 1995s, during the night she was in intense pain and was rushed to the hospital, at first it was thought to be her appendix. She was operated and during the operation, the doctors discovered that Skylar had a tumor in the area behind her stomach.

The worst thing is that the tumor had ruptured, and other tumors were discovered. Vince daughter Skylar fought a hard fight against cancer that was devastating her body. However through it all, she never lost her spirit. Skylar went home to play with the angels on August 15th, 1995.

Skylar’s father Vince he said “after we buried Skylar I sedated myself on pills and alcohol. I couldn’t take it.

“For months I really tried to kill myself. I wanted to die. It went on for two years after she passed away — I was in eight our nine rehabs. I felt she was waiting for me, and the only place I wanted to go was to her.

“One night I was lying in bed with her blanket, still wanting to die. I was sound asleep — and there was a little tug on the blanket. I woke up, opened my eyes and the door was open.

“I was scared. I didn’t know what was going on — but it was her.”

In 1999 Vince father to Skylar sued Boeing North American Inc. claiming that his daughter’s death by cancer in 1995 was caused by radioactive material dumped in the soil and groundwater near his former home near the Santa Susana Field Laboratory. Read about Mick Mars

Vince Neil Children

Skylar Lynnae Neil, Neil Jason Wharton, And Elizabeth Ashley Wharton

VINCE NEIL’S STRUGGLE TO COPE WITH DAUGHTER SKYLAR’S DEATH

When Vince Neil’s daughter Skylar died of cancer after months of pain at the age of four in August 1995, he threw himself into a self-destructive phase worse than anything he’d ever done previously.

The singer knew it was the worst thing he’d ever had to deal with, but it came during a legal battle following his split with Motley Crue and also an unpleasant separation from his soon-to-be ex-wife, Skylar’s mother. In the months that followed, he found himself angry and suicidal and hiding behind alcohol and drugs. His ex even suggested he never managed to deal with it at all. Read about Nikki Sixx

“Instead, they saw that a cancerous tumor around her abdomen had exploded, spreading cancer all through her body,” Neil recalled, adding that he’d been frightened when he saw her “attached to all those tubes and machines” when she’d “been running circles around my legs trying to make me dizzy” the previous weekend.

Months of torment were to follow. With each surgery, doctors found that the cancer was worse than anticipated and too dangerous to fully remove. Parts of most of Skylar’s vital organs were removed in a bid to contain the disease until finally, the tumor itself was in a condition to be removed.

Neil asked to look at it. “[It] weighed six and a half pounds,” he remembered. “That’s how much Skylar had weighed when she was born. … I had never seen anything like it before: it was the face of evil. It lay spread out in a metal pan, a nacreous mess of shit.”

While attempts to cure her continued, Neil and Sharise found a middle ground as they took turns spending time with their daughter. Even Neil’s new girlfriend Heidi was part of the efforts to keep Skylar’s spirits up.

Heidi helped arrange visits from actors dressed as Disney characters, while Neil organized screenings of pre-release kids’ movies. When he realized the ward had only one TV, he bought more sets, along with DVD players, for the other young patients.

“It doesn’t seem like much, but little things can make a whole lot of difference when you’re a kid in the hospital,” he said in his 2010 memoir Tattoos & Tequila.

However, he wasn’t able to cope with personal anguish. “I would stay at the children’s hospital as long as they’d let me, then I’d drive straight to Moonshadows in Malibu and get liquored up with the regulars until I couldn’t remember my own name,” he said in 2001. “I knew it was wrong to be drinking at this time, but it was the only way I could keep from going completely crazy.”

He recalled returning to the hospital with a giant stuffed panda, only to be met with the news that Skylar’s left kidney had become infected. “That’s all she’s got left,” he told the doctor. “What does this mean?” It meant another surgery – her sixth – leading Neil to ask, “How much more can she take?” The answer was not much. After that operation, Skylar fell into a coma.

“Her little body just couldn’t take anymore,” he said. “When your body starts to fall apart, there’s no one who can fix the machine. They can only keep it running for a little while longer.

And sometimes I wonder whether I did the right thing by keeping Skylar running for so long, keeping her in such pain for five months – one-tenth of her entire life.”

He knew the inevitable end was approaching, and that only made his drinking worse. “I cut the most pathetic figure: a father who just couldn’t deal with the pain of knowing that soon he would have to undergo the worst tragedy that a parent can bear – having to bury his own daughter,” he recalled.

“I would have been willing to lay down my own life if it would have helped. I had never thought anything like that before – not about my wives, not about my parents, not about anybody. Perhaps that was why I was trying to kill myself with the drink so that somehow I could martyr myself and exchange my suffering for hers.”

When Sharise called to tell Neil to get back to the hospital as soon as he could, he arrived soon after Skylar had died in her sleep on Aug. 15, 1995. “Her eyes had opened with a momentary flash of fear and met her mother’s in search of an answer,” he recalled.

“‘Don’t be scared, sweetie,’ Sharise had reassured her, squeezing her hand. ‘Go to sleep now. It’s all right.’ And so Skylar slept. In the meantime, I sat in traffic on the Pacific Coast Highway and, for an instant, my heart jumped in my chest. … Afterward, I realized that when the woman that I loved most in the world left, my heart knew it, and for a moment, wanted to catch up with her and join her.”

In The Dirt, Neil wrote about the difficulty of attending the funeral, but in Tattoos & Tequila, he revealed he hadn’t been able to bring himself to be there. “There was no way I could go at that point,” he said.

Meanwhile, he recalled he “added pills” to his drinking as he “blamed himself for Skylar’s death.” “I was confused and fucked up,” he noted. “Women, alcohol and golf were my tickets out of Realityville.”

While a number of attempts at rehab failed, he finally faced his feelings after scoring a personal best at golf and querying why he felt so good about it, given the circumstances. “It occurred to me that maybe I really did need a better way to work through my emotions,” he said.

“There was a lot of grief inside me, though it didn’t really occur to me then … it would be years before I would realize the toll of a lifetime of strife.”

Sharise also had her say in Tattoos & Tequila, noting that, in their seven years of marriage, Neil had never talked about the 1984 death of Hanoi Rocks drummer Razzle in the car he was driving.

“Vince doesn’t like to deal with emotions like that,” she said. “He doesn’t ever feel things deeply, maybe. He doesn’t let himself. … He would cry when he was in trouble and he wanted you to know he wanted to work stuff out. He showed love and affection, but he didn’t show sadness. He was comfortable with anger.”

In the following years, Neil – who has two older children from a previous marriage – set up the Skylar Neil Foundation to raise funds for children with cancer; to date, it’s generated millions of dollars to help with treatment and research. Neil, who’d also hit financial rock-bottom during her illness, settled his differences with Motley Crue, rejoined the band and rekindled his fortunes.

But in the 2010 book, he recalled that “over the agonizing months that my little girl lay dying, I never once heard from any of my former bandmates. … Sure, we were at war, legally speaking, but as far as I was concerned, all our petty squabbles and hissy fits paled in comparison with what I was going through.”

More positively, he referred to the track “Skylar’s Song” on his 1995 solo album Carved in Stone, and the good works of the foundation, as “my daughter’s legacy, my monuments to her memory.”

Vince Neil Early life

Neil was born in Hollywood, California to Shirley (née Ortiz) and Clois “Odie” Wharton. He has Mexican ancestry on his mother’s side and Native American ancestry on his father’s.

During the 1960s, his family moved around Southern California from Inglewood to Watts, before finally settling in Glendora, attending Sunflower Intermediate School and later Royal Oak High School.

As well as having an interest in music while a teenager, Neil was also interested in surfing, basketball, baseball, football, and wrestling.

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Vince Neil Marriages

Neil married his first wife, Beth Lynn, in 1981; they divorced in 1985. In April 1987, Neil married Sharise Ruddell, a mud wrestler, and fashion model. The couple had one daughter, Skylar (March 26, 1991 – August 15, 1995), before divorcing in 1993.

In early 1993, he began dating actress and Playboy Playmate Heidi Mark after a blind date arranged by her makeup artist. The two were engaged within two months and married in 2000. After just 15 months of marriage, and several attempts at reconciliation, they divorced in 2001.

Neil married his fourth wife, Lia Gerardini, in January 2005. The ceremony was officiated by MC Hammer, an ordained minister and fellow cast member on The Surreal Life. In 2010, Neil announced their separation.

Vince Neil Music career

With Mötley Crüe
He was discovered while performing with his band Rock Candy in 1979 and joined Mötley Crüe in 1980. Neil had been friends with Tommy Lee in high school. Mötley Crüe was looking for a lead vocalist at the time and were impressed by Neil after hearing him through Lee.

Mötley Crüe released its first album, Too Fast for Love, in 1981. The band then began a string of hit releases throughout the decade—1983’s Shout at the Devil, which established the band as a big act in rock and roll, 1985’s Theatre of Pain, 1987’s hit Girls, Girls, Girls, and their highest-selling album, 1989’s Dr. Feelgood—establishing the quartet as one of the biggest hard rock/metal bands of the ’80s.

Following the band’s first compilation album Decade of Decadence 81-91 Mötley Crüe parted ways with Vince Neil in February 1992.

Exposed, was Neil’s first solo album and was released in 1993. The album debuted at #13 on the Billboard charts. The album featured Stevens, who subsequently played all bass and guitar tracks on “Exposed”, Dave Marshall, Robbie Crane, and Vik Foxx. The band eventually went on tour, opening for Van Halen.

Pornstar Janine Lindemulder can be seen in the video for the second single “Sister of Pain”. The song “Can’t Change Me” was released as the third single which Neil also shot a video for, the video was filmed at the Record Plant. “Can’t Have Your Cake” was released as the fourth single which also features a music video.

The video would feature an up-and-coming starlet by the name of Pamela Anderson, and Vince Neil’s son Neil Wharton, who portrayed a young Vince Neil in the video.

Carved in Stone
In September 1995, Neil released Carved in Stone, an industrial-oriented album produced by the Dust Brothers. The album was recorded and was put on hold while Neil was dealing with the illness of his daughter Skylar. The album charted at #139 on The Billboard 200.

The song “Skylar’s Song” was released as a single for the album. The album sold fewer than 100,000 copies in the US, and Neil’s contract with Warner Bros. Records eventually came to an end.

The album was re-released in 2004.
Vince Neil has toured his solo band, which consisted of Slaughter members Jeff Blando and Dana Strum, as well as drummer Zoltan Chaney.

Reunion with Mötley Crüe
The band came back into the spotlight after they are Behind the Music episode aired on VH1 in December 1998 and became the highest rated in the series. A DVD was issued with ten extra minutes of footage in December 1999.

By 1997, Neil’s solo career and Mötley’s fortunes were declining, so the four reunited that year. “They admitted they couldn’t do it without me,” he recalled, “and I wasn’t selling records the way Mötley Crüe had.” They released Generation Swine, which debuted at #4 on the Billboard charts.

Tension soon erupted, however, this time prompting Tommy Lee to leave. The other members replaced him with Randy Castillo and recorded New Tattoo in 2000. The renewed band went on hiatus when Castillo died from cancer in 2002.

Mötley’s fortunes got a boost when Neil and Lee put aside their differences to tour in support of the 2005 compilation Red, White & Crüe. Dubbed Carnival of Sins, the tour featured acrobats, fire breathers and a midget as part of the overall circus atmosphere the band created.

Mötley Crüe released their most recent album, Saints of Los Angeles, in 2008, featuring all the original members.

After a hiatus, following their 2014 and 2015 final world tour, Neil confirmed on September 13, 2018, that Mötley Crüe has reformed and plans to release new music.

Tattoos & Tequila and recent activities
Vince released his third solo album, Tattoos & Tequila, in 2010. It is Neil’s first solo release in seven years since the live album Live at the Whisky: One Night Only in 2003.

The album is a soundtrack to the book Neil released in the same year, “Tattoos & Tequila: To Hell and Back with One of Rock’s Most Notorious Frontmen”. Each song on the album corresponds with a chapter in the book. The album title track was released as a single for the album.

Neil contributed a cover of Japanese rock band L’Arc~en~Ciel’s song “Blurry Eyes” to their 2012 tribute album.

In a 2016 interview with Billboard, Neil revealed that he was scheduled to play at the presidential inauguration, but later stated that he was uninvited after Donald Trump’s victory.

Vince Neil Net Worth, Salary

Vince Neil is probably most famous for being the lead vocalist for Mötley Crüe. He joined Mötley Crüe in 1981 but eventually left the band in 1992. He pursued a moderately successful solo career and Indy racing stint before rejoining the band in 1998. Soon after Neil joined Mötley Crüe, the band began recording and releasing albums.

Their first album release, “Too Fast for Love,” went on sale in 1981. Their 1983 release, “Shout at the Devil,” was a blockbuster hit and catapulted the group to fame – in the United States and in Europe. The group’s biggest hit, “Dr. Feelgood,” was released in 1989. Vince Neil left Mötley Crüe in 1992 to concentrate on a career as a solo singer.

His first album, “Exposed,” was released in 1993 and reached Number Thirteen on Billboard charts. The band, including Vince Neil, reunited in 1997 and continues to work today. Vince Neil also owns many businesses unrelated to music, including owning a bar and restaurant as well as a clothing line.

Neil was born in 1961 in Hollywood, California to Shirley (née Ortiz) and Clois “Odie” Wharton. He has Mexican ancestry on his mother’s side and Native American ancestry on his father’s side. Neil has been married four times, with all of his marriages ending in divorce.

He has three children, a daughter named Elizabeth, a son named Neil, and a daughter named Skylar. On August 15, 1995, Neil and his second wife, Sharise Ruddell’s daughter, Skylar Neil, died of cancer; she was four years old. He founded the Skylar Neil Memorial Fund in her honor.

Since that time, Neil and the foundation have raised awareness and funding for various children’s illnesses. The Skylar Neil Memorial Foundation has donated millions of dollars to The T.J. Martell Foundation, and it sponsors an annual golf tournament to raise money for children with cancer.

He currently lives in Las Vegas with his girlfriend, Rain Andreani and in 2015, Vince Neil appeared on the hit reality series, Celebrity Wife Swap, where he traded lives with Gunnar Nelson. Vince Neil net worth: Vince Neil is an American rock star who has a net worth of $50 million dollars.

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Vince Neil Television and film

In 1989, Neil had a small role for Police Academy 6: City Under Siege, which showed him being protected by Lieutenant Moses Hightower (Bubba Smith). The scene was filmed but didn’t make the cut.

In 1990, Neil had a small part in the film The Adventures of Ford Fairlane playing Bobby Black, lead vocalist of the fictional rock band that consisted of Carlos Cavazo, Randy Castillo, and Phil Soussan.

Opening sequences of the film featured the band playing at Red Rocks Amphitheater, where Neil’s character makes a grand entrance by swooping on stage via zip-line.

He then proceeds to die onstage under suspicious circumstances. Black’s misfortunes continue even in death when at his funeral a mêlée takes place resulting in his cylindrical plexiglass casket rolling down a hill (obviously containing a dummy of Neil).

In 2002, he was one of the cast members on the first season of The Surreal Life. In 2004, Neil appeared on the special Remaking Vince Neil, which showed him trying to recharge his solo career. He also recorded the single “Promise Me” produced by Desmond Child. The song was for sale on iTunes for a brief period, but a solo album never surfaced.

In 2004, Neil played a tattoo artist in an episode of the CBS sitcom Still Standing.

In 2009, Neil worked on a pilot for an A&E reality TV show. According to Neil, the program would follow him and his family after his parents moved in with him. As Neil told Eddie Trunk, “My wife [Lia] hasn’t talked to my mom since the wedding,” which took place January 9, 2005, in Las Vegas.

In 2010, he was cast on ABC’s Skating with the Stars as a celebrity contestant who skated with professional ice skater Jennifer Wester.

In 2012, Neil participated in flight training in Henderson, Nevada for the PBS television series The Aviators, as reported by the Las Vegas Sun.

In 2017, Neil was a cast member on The New Celebrity Apprentice until his elimination in task 7.

Vince Neil Legal Troubles

In late 1984, Finnish hard rock band Hanoi Rocks was on their second American tour and a first one ever to reach California. The two gigs meant to be held in Los Angeles sold out in twenty minutes.

On the day they arrived in Los Angeles, December 8, Hanoi Rocks drummer Nicholas “Razzle” Dingley and the other members of the band (with the exception of singer Michael Monroe, who was recovering from a fractured ankle) visited Neil’s home and spent the day at Redondo Beach.

After partying for hours, Neil and Razzle decided to take a trip to a local liquor store in Neil’s De Tomaso Pantera. Neil, who was drunk, lost control of the car and hit an oncoming vehicle. The two occupants of the other car were seriously injured and suffered brain damage, and Dingley was killed.

Neil was charged with vehicular manslaughter and driving under the influence of alcohol in connection with the crash. His blood alcohol level was 0.17, well above the California legal limit at that time of 0.10.

In July 1986, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Edward Hinz, Jr. sentenced Neil to 30 days in jail, five years probation, $2.6 million in restitution to the victims of the crash and 200 hours of community service. Neil got out of jail in 15 days for good behavior; Mötley Crüe dedicated their third studio album, Theatre of Pain, to Razzle.

Neil was arrested in 2002 for punching record producer Michael Schuman to the ground in a nightclub parking lot. Neil was ordered to pay restitution and complete community service.

In 2003, Neil was arrested again after accusations that he assaulted a sex worker at the Moonlight BunnyRanch by grabbing her around the throat and throwing her against a wall. On April 9, 2004, Neil pleaded no contest to battery charges and he was sentenced to a 30-day jail suspension, 60 days anger management, and was fined $1,000 plus court fees of $132.

On December 15, 2004, an arrest warrant for misdemeanor assault was issued for Neil after a fight during a show on October 30 where he left a soundman unconscious for 45 minutes. Police had given the singer a criminal-trespass warning before he left the club and headed to Houston for a Halloween show.

In 2007, Neil was arrested for suspicion of DUI in Las Vegas after police spotted him making some erratic moves in his Ferrari. Neil later worked out a deal with prosecutors where he pleaded guilty to reckless driving in exchange for them to drop the DUI charge.

In June 2010, Neil was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving in Las Vegas after having allegedly smashed a fan’s camera and was released on $2,000 bond. On January 26, 2011, Neil pleads guilty to drunk driving and was sentenced to 15 days in the Clark County jail and 15 days under house arrest.

In March 2011, Neil was charged with battery and disorderly conduct after an altercation with an ex-girlfriend, Alicia Jacobs. On May 2, 2011, Neil’s attorneys plead not guilty on his behalf during an arraignment and he was ordered to stay away from Jacobs then was scheduled to appear in court on August 8. On August 8, 2011, Neil’s trial was rescheduled for November 7 due to an unexplained emergency.

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Even before the band made their first hit single ‘Shout At The Devil’, the band was up to all sorts of crazy antics: from getting into a fistfight at their very first live gig to all of them checking into rehab so that they can get clean. Vince Neil, Nikki Sixx, Tommy Lee, and Mick Mars have a lot of tales to tell from their time performing together.

The focus of this particular piece, however, is the lead singer and lady killer Vince Neil. Neil is been responsible for the death of one person at least.

The infamous incident took place in 1994 when Finnish hard rock band Hanoi Rocks came to the US on their second tour. This was also the first tour that ever reached California.

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The two gigs that were supposed to be held in Los Angeles sold out in a matter of twenty minutes. That’s how popular the band was at the time.

Then, on December 9, the day the band arrived in the City of Angels, drummer Nicholas “Razzle” Dingley and other members of the band (minus singer Michael Monroe, who had been recovering from a fractured ankle) went to Neil’s home at Redondo Beach and spent the day there.

After everyone at the party drank and made merry, Neil and Razzle decided to step out to the local liquor store to buy more alcohol in Neil’s De Tomaso Pantera. The Motley Crue lead singer was pretty drunk at this point and lost control of his car which collided into an oncoming vehicle.

The occupants in the other car were severely injured in the crash and suffered from brain damage. Razzle tragically died in the crash.

Neil was subsequently charged with vehicular manslaughter and driving under the influence of alcohol. His blood alcohol level was reportedly 0.17, which was way above the legal limit of 0.10 at the time.

In July 1986, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Edward Hinz, Jr. sentenced the rockstar to 30 days in jail, five years probation, $2.6 million in restitution to the victims of the crash, as well as 200 hours of community service.

The singer was able to get out of prison in 15 days for good behavior. The band dedicated their third studio album, which is called Theater of Pain, to Razzle.

The streaming giant’s film stays true to the story related in the band’s autobiography, ‘The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band’, by showing how the lead singer slowly descended into despair after the death of his friend. He became less interested in the music and more interested in blaming himself for what happened.

In 1992, Neil was fired from the Crue by his bandmates after they basically got tired of his moping and his constant lateness to important rehearsals. The year after he quit the band, Neil’s five-year marriage to former mud wrestler Sharise Rudell ended in divorce.

This didn’t seem so bad for the singer who was then hit with the biggest punch in the gut in April 1994 when his four-year-old daughter Skylar, whom he had joint custody with Rudell, was diagnosed with Wilms’ tumor, which is a kidney cancer that affects children. The toddler underwent six operations, aside from extensive chemo and radiation treatments.

Just four months later, in August, little Skylar died. In a detailed piece he wrote for People magazine at the time, the then 34-year-old rockstar said: “This ordeal is something no parent should have to go through.”

He had just released his solo album, Carved in Stone, that included a track called “Skylar’s Song” which he wrote for his daughter before she died. He added: “More than that, I wish no child ever had to go through it.”