Dead TV star was facing prison
GLEE star Mark Salling has died in an apparent suicide at age 35.
The actor’s lawyer, Michael J Proctor, said in a statement to Entertainment
Weekly: “I can confirm that Mark Salling passed away early this morning. Mark was a gentle and loving person, a person of great creativity, who was doing his best to atone for some serious mistakes and errors of judgment.”
TMZ reported the actor who played bad boy Noah “Puck” Puckerman in Glee was found dead at the Los Angeles River in Sunland, near where he lived.
Salling was awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to possessing more than 50,000 images of underage children. He reportedly used software to mask his IP address but showed some of the images to a woman, who reported him to police.
He was to be sentenced in March and had struck a plea deal whereby he would receive between four to seven years in prison.
The actor reportedly made a suicide attempt last year.
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