Chester Bennington Salary & Net Worth

GRAMMY-winning singer, Chester Bennington, used to earn an annual salary of $ 4.8 Million / 3796992 GBP from his successful music career. Similarly, his monthly salary was calculated to be around $400000 / 316416 GBP. Chester Bennington had an estimated Net Worth of $ 30 Million. 

Early Life

Chester Bennington was an American singer, songwriter, and occasional actor best known as the lead singer of Linkin Park, Grey Daze, Dead by Sunrise, and Stone Temple Pilots.

He rose to prominence as a vocalist following the worldwide commercial success of Linkin Park’s debut album Hybrid Theory (2000).

Chester Bennington was born on March 20, 1976, in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. Chester Charles Bennington was his given name. He was American by nationality and mixed ethnicity, with English, Welsh, Scottish, and small traces of German ancestry. He was also of distant Dutch ancestry and his zodiac sign was Pisces.

Chester Bennington was born to Lee Russell Bennington (a police officer who specializes in child abuse cases) and Susan Elaine Johnson (Nurse). Brian Bennington (Older Half-Brother) (Police Officer) and two older half-sisters are his other siblings.

Sexual Abuse

When Bennington was 11 years old, his parents divorced. Bennington’s father gained custody of him following the divorce.

He began abusing alcohol, marijuana, opium, cocaine, methamphetamine, and LSD.  When he was seven years old, he was sexually abused by an older male friend.

Education

Chester attended Centennial High School for his educational requirements. Later, he transferred to Greenway High School. Grey Daze, his first band, was formed at Greenway.

He then decided to transfer to Washington High School in order to graduate high school in 1994. In high school, he was physically bullied.

In an interview, he described being “knocked around like a rag doll at school” because he was “skinny and looked different.”

He became interested in music at a young age, citing Depeche Mode and Stone Temple Pilots as early influences, and aspired to be a member of Stone Temple Pilots. He worked at Burger King before embarking on a career as a professional musician.

Cause of Death

Chester Bennington died on July 20, 2017, at the age of 41. He killed himself by hanging at his home in Palos Verdes Estates, California. Bennington returned home alone from a vacation in Arizona with his wife and family, claiming he had work to do.

On July 20, 2017, shortly before 9:00 a.m. PDT, his housekeeper discovered him dead at his home. His death was determined to be a suicide by hanging. Bennington did not leave a suicide note.

Marriage & Relationship

Chester Bennington was married to a  former Playboy model Talinda Ann Bentley in 2006 after dating her since the end of 2004. Tyler Lee Bennington, their first son, was born in March 2006. She gave birth to twin daughters, Lila and Lily, in March 2011. They were also raising children from his previous relationships before he died in 2017.

The hacker then sent out a series of cruel tweets accusing Talinda of cheating on Chester and making disparaging remarks about him.

Townsend was convicted of tampering with the couple’s email and other personal information, as well as sending threatening messages, and received a two-year prison sentence. His sexual orientation was heterosexual.

Chester Bennington’s relationship with Elka Brand was first reported in the mid-1990s. Jamie, his son, was born in May 1996. He later adopted his second son, Isaiah. They eventually split up.

In October 1996, he married his first wife, Samantha Marie Olit. She gave birth to the couple’s first son, Draven Sebastian, in April 2002. In 2005, they divorced.

Height and Weight

Chester Bennington had a slim body type. He stood 5 feet 7 inches (178 cm) tall. His body weight was 73 kg (161 lbs). His hair was black, and his eyes were dark brown. He also had numerous tattoos on his body.

Chester Bennington was a big fan of tattoos. He had previously worked and promoted for Club Tattoo, a tattoo parlor in Tempe, Arizona.

Professional Career

• Chester Bennington’s first band was called Sean Dowdell and His Friends.
• In 1993, they collaborated on an eponymous three-track cassette.
• Then he went on to form Grey Daze, a Phoenix, Arizona-based post-grunge band. The band did record a demo in 1993, as well as two albums, Wake Me in 1994 and No Sun Today in 1997. He left the band in 1998.
• Later, Jeff Blue, the vice president of artists and repertoire at Los Angeles’ Zomba Music, offered him an audition with future Linkin Park (then ‘Xero’) members.
• Jeff Blue, now a Warner Bros. Records vice president of artists and repertoire, stepped in once more to help the band sign with Warner Bros. Records.
• On October 24, 2000, Warner Bros. Records released Linkin Park’s debut album, “Hybrid Theory.”
• In early 2002, he told Rolling Stone magazine about his songwriting experience “It’s easy to fall into that trap – ‘poor, poor me,’ as songs like ‘Crawling’ demonstrate: I can’t take myself.
• Meteora (2003), the band’s second album, debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 album chart, as did Minutes to Midnight, its third album (2007).
• In addition, the band received two Grammy Awards, six American Music Awards, four MTV Video Music Awards, and three World Music Awards.
• Linkin Park was named the sixth greatest band of the music video era and the third best of the new millennium by MTV2 in 2003.

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• In 2005, he co-founded Dead by Sunrise, an electronic rock band from Los Angeles, California, with Amir Derakh and Ryan Shuck from Orgy and Julien-K. On October 13, 2009, the band released their debut album Out of Ashes.
• He also appeared on “Walking Dead,” the lead single from Z-debut Trip’s album Shifting Gears in 2005, and made a surprise appearance during Z-performance Trip’s at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival that year. In 2006, he joined Alice in Chains for a performance of “Man in the Box” at KROQ’s Inland Invasion Festival.
• In addition, he recorded “Crazy,” a track for Slash’s 2010 eponymous debut solo album, but it was never released. Slash then re-recorded it with Lemmy on vocals, and the song was renamed “Doctor Alibi.”
• In May 2013, Stone Temple Pilots hired Bennington to replace Weiland.
• “Out of Time,” their first single with vocals by Bennington, was released on May 19. “Out of Time” appears on their EP High Rise, which was released on October 8, 2013.
• He then left the band on good terms in 2015 due to Linkin Park commitments and was replaced two years later by Jeff Gutt.
• A snippet of the original Bennington track was finally released in May 2021.

Caption: Chester Bennington, Singer (Photo: Instagram)

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

What was Chester Bennington’s addiction?

American singer Chester Bennington was addicted to cocaine, LSD, opium, and alcohol from the early age of 11. He used to take those drugs to numb himself as he was sexually abused in his childhood.

How many kids did Chester Bennington leave behind?

Chester has a total of five children named Tyler Lee Bennington, Draven Sebastian, Jamie, Isaiah (Adopted), Lila, and Lily (Twins).

What is Chester Bennington’s Net Worth?

Chester Bennington’s Net Worth is estimated Net Worth $ 30 Million.

When did Chester Bennington Die?

on July 20, 2017, he was found dead in his home in Palos Verdes Estates, California.

What was Chester Bennington’s last song?