LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Court filings show DJ AM's estate has settled a lawsuit filed over a South Carolina plane crash that killed four and left the celebrity disc jockey seriously injured.

DJ AM, whose real name is Adam Goldstein, died in August in New York of an accidental overdose. Attorneys later amended the lawsuit to include a wrongful death claim.

He had been seeking $20 million in damages, but a

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Weekly Music News: The MTV Video Music Awards was must see TV this week; not for the performances, but for the random drama. With the unpredictable appearances from artists with opinions paired with the gory performance pulled off by Pop's problem child Lady Gaga, to say that the VMA's this year was a night to remember would be a complete understatement. Kanye's uninvited stage crash, Janet's tribute to Michael, and Whitney Houston on Oprah rounds out this week's music news.

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LOS ANGELES (Billboard) – When the members of AFI began work on their 2006 album, "Decemberunderground," they "tried really hard not to think about it as the follow-up to a big successful record," guitarist Jade Puget says.

Of course, that's precisely what it was: "Decemberunderground" came three years after "Sing the Sorrow," the band's major-label debut and the album that introduced AFI to a mainstream audience 12

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Basketball star Shaquille O'Neal rushed to his wife's hospital bedside on Tuesday after she was involved in a serious car accident in Florida.

Shaunie O'Neal was driving to the airport when a teenager smashed "full speed" into her car at around 6am.

Police were called to the scene and she, along with two others, was taken to Dr. P. Phillips Hospital in Orlando for treatment.

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Jazz musician Chuck Mangione took to the stage in New York on Friday night to raise money for the families of his two former bandmates who were killed in a plane crash in February.

Gerry Niewood and Coleman Mellett were among passengers on the jet which came down near New York's Buffalo Niagara International Airport killing all 49 people on board.

The band's concert in Buffalo the following night was canceled as a result of the loss.

And Mangione has kept

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The family of the pilot killed in the plane crash that left Travis Barker and Adam "DJ A.M." Goldstein severely burned and three others dead has shot back at reports his lack of training caused the tragic accident.

The estate of pilot James Bland was targeted in a recent suit, filed by the widow of Barker's assistant, Chris Baker, who was killed in the South Carolina crash in September.

The lawsuit alleges pilots Bland, 52, and Sarah Lemmon, 31, also killed in the incident,

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NEW YORK (AP) -- When Brandy talks about future goals, she doesn't list No. 1 hits or a top-selling CD among them. Instead, she talks about more personal benchmarks, like learning to be more understanding, staying true to herself, and living her life with a purpose.

"I don't want to live my life in vain," says Brandy, who released her first CD in four years, "Human," this week. "That is the most important thing ... not just

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