Adam DJ AM Goldstein was memorialized in a special service at the Hollywood Palladium here in SoCal last night one day after his body was laid to rest in a semi-private funeral service at Hillside Memorial Park and Mortuary on Wednesday. Modeled as a 12-step AA meeting, AM‘s memorial service brought out hundreds of family and friends One More Time so that they could pay their final respects to the late DJ:

While Michael Jackson was being buried in a lavish ceremony across town, friends, family and fans paid a final tribute to DJ AM (born Adam Goldstein) on Thursday night at the Hollywood Palladium, less than one week after the popular celebrity DJ was found dead in his New York apartment of an apparent drug overdose. According to People, hundreds of invited guests and fans turned out to remember AM, 36, who was buried on Wednesday, among them former fiancée Nicole Richie and friends Lindsay Lohan, Samantha Ronson, Eric Dane, Rebecca Gayheart and Robert Downey Jr. E! Online reported that the VIPs also included Dr. Drew Pinsky, Tom Arnold, Jon Favreau and Sugar Ray singer Mark McGrath. “He was my soulmate and now he is my soul,” girlfriend Hayley Wood said during the two-and-a-half-hour memorial. “He is my amazing grace.” Because of the anonymity requested by organizers to honor the structure of 12-step meeting, no press was allowed into the event, and few details have emerged about what was said inside. Radar Online reported that the 3,500 attendees also included John Mayer and that the event was organized by Hollywood club promoter Brent Bolthouse. While fans reportedly scrambled to get a seat in the venue, an eyewitness described the crowd as “very hip and eclectic,” with some in T-shirts and jeans, and others in black suits. “It was packed, though. You could tell how well loved he was,” the witness told the site. “It was a very somber and sad crowd.” The Palladium was a fitting place for AM’s final memorial, as it was the first venue he performed in following the South Carolina plane crash he and Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker survived last September. The New York City medical examiner’s office has not yet determined a cause of death and is conducting further toxicology tests, but there were several reports from unnamed sources earlier this week that AM had more than half a dozen undigested OxyContin pills in his stomach and one in his mouth when police found him face down on his bed in his barricaded Soho apartment.

Considering Goldstein‘s struggle with addiction and the way it is believed he passed away, this 12-step style memorial service seems a fitting way for family and friends to pay tribute to his memory. I sincerely hope that, while they are still coping with their tragic loss, Goldstein‘s loved ones were able to take solace with one another and have begun to find closure. The pain of loss doesn’t go away over night but slowly, one day at a time (as it were), time will help heal their wounds.

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