According to TMZ, the MTV alum died by suicide at home in ... Nearly 30 years later, the original cast of 'Real World: Los Angeles' are moving back into their Venice Beach house.

Related: MTV Is Reuniting the Original Cast of 'The Real World' Season 1 for New Series on Paramount+ "Today, 20 years ago ... 23 year old lil Karamo was cast on #MTVRealWorld," he began.

By the late nineties, however, another MTV show was revolutionizing television. First broadcast in 1992, The Real World made quirky scripted shows like Austin Stories seem like old hat.

But those original VJs - Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter, J.J. Jackson and Martha Quinn - remain icons of the era.

Khaire, Mukti, and Eleanor Kenyon. "Music and the (Real) World: Thirty Years of MTV." Harvard Business School Case 812-041, October 2011. (Revised September 2014.) ...