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Sly Stone once had a mansion in Beverly Hills and a Napa Valley compound with tons of cars and a vineyard.

Now, the lead singer of the 1970s group, Sly and the Family Stone, which recorded the mega-hits “Dance to the Music” and “Everyday People,” is homeless.

Stone sleeps these days in a white van parked on a rough street in Los Angeles. Thanks to the kindness of a retired couple, he gets at least one meal a day and a place to shower.

He tells the New York Post, “I like my small camper… I cannot stand being in one place. I must keep moving.”

Over the years, Stone blew his money on cars and drugs, for which he was arrested a few times in the 1980s.

He also alleges that his manager, who he’s suing for $50 million, cheated him out of money and forced him into bad business deals.

In 1984, Stone also sold all his valuable music-publishing rights to Michael Jackson for just $1 million.

The once great singer, who still records tons of music on his laptop, now begs, “Tell everybody, please, to give me a job, play my music.”

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• http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=3804508 Chanel GoonerGurl Trader

  See boys and girls? Drugs are very very bad.

• http://twitter.com/Anniegirl100 Annie

  Wow at Michael Jackson being so shrewd and getting a steal at $1 million. And then Michael became broke too right before his death.

• elfenlovsanime

  What is this the year of the alcholic druged out homeless people? Now I support Ted Williams Golden Voice and am greatful and happy he finely excepted help and has a home and rebulding his life :) HOMELESSNESS CAN HAPPEN TO ANYONE I pray that Mr Stone can find a home and get help for his sobstace abuse.

  Here’s a link to Ted Willams Golden Voice
  http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/life_and_entertainment/2011/09/15/one-more-take.html

• Tmarshall

  Drugs are just God’s way of telling you that you have too much money.

• Brittanytierra91

  i just noticed all of u had something negative to say at least he trying to get his life back

• Anonymous

  Nope, that’s not true. There are plenty of broke ass people using dope or alcohol, who sell their bodies or steal, and never have anything to show for it. It’s more about people having too much time, without any motivation or desire to work out their life problems. Getting high is a way to avoid dealing, at any cost.

• http://www.facebook.com/people/Irene-Botfeld-Sigmund/1142573730 Irene Botfeld-Sigmund

  This is so sad. He needs to get into rehab and try to fix his life. You can’t get off the streets if your head isn’t on straight.

• Anonymous

  Seriously . . . I thought Sly Stone died YEARS AGO!!! I really did.

  It’s sad to hear about these once great musicians who have little to no money now. How could they have been so dumb? I guess they thought the money would last forever; and it would have except for the dope. I mean, Sly probably didn’t only pay for himself to get high, he most likely paid for everybody around him to get high with him since everybody was his “friend” back then. Wonder where his friends are now? It’s pathetic.

• http://www.facebook.com/louise.hernan Louise Hernan

  I just know something really good is going to come out of this!!! :)

• http://www.facebook.com/louise.hernan Louise Hernan

  I just know something really good is going to come out of this!!! :)

• Shannon

  I had seen Sly in concert several times in the 70′s. He is a very talented man. No one ever knows what can happen to them in life. I pray for him and hope that he gets the help he needs.