In the wrongful death lawsuit between Aaron Carter‘s family and a Los Angeles psychiatry clinic that prescribed him Xanax, a settlement has finally been reached.
According to court documents obtained by Billboard, Amen Clinics will pay a “confidential sum” “within the ballpark” of the damages Carter’s family sought (which was less than $325,000,) as a “full and final resolution” of the allegations against both the clinic and one of its psychiatrists, Dr John Faber.
Despite the decision, attorneys for Amen maintained the clinic followed all standards of care and that the artist’s death was caused not by Xanax, but by his inhalation of difluoroethane.
Over the singer’s drug-linked drowning in 2022, the complaint was filed on behalf of Carter’s toddler son and sole heir, Princeton Lyric Carter.
Before a Los Angeles County judge’s 2025 ruling that Princeton had a right to a jury trial over claims that two doctors and two pharmacies “overprescribed” and supplied the late pop star with “excessively high and unreasonably frequent amounts” of Xanax prior to his passing, the case faced a wave of legal challenges.
The other defendants in the lawsuit – dentist Jason Mirabile, Walgreens, and Santa Monica Medical Plaza Pharmacy – have yet to settle and are slated to go to trial in October of this year.
Making him an overnight global sensation, Carter released his self-titled solo album in 1997 at the age of nine and opened for his brother Nick’s Backstreet Boys. He released his final album, Love, in 2018.
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Author: Saul Goode
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