Legendary Funk Singer Sly Stone

Legendary Funk Singer Sly Stone Homeless and Living Out of Van, Report Says

By 1980, the group’s popularity had declined enormously from its heyday. Stone appeared on an episode of “ThShow” and promised, “I’m going to do one more album real quick, and if it’s not instantly platinum, bye-bye.” Sly & the Family Stone’s 10th and final 1982’s “Ain’t But the One Way,” flopped.

Today, Sly is disheveled, paranoid -- the is after him; his enemies have hired hit men. He refuses to let The Post into his camper, but, ever the showman, poses flamboyantly with a silver military helmet and a Taser in front of his Studebaker.

The singer claims his money troubles escalated in 2009, when his royalty payments stopped flowing after Stone accused his manager, Jerry Goldstein, of fraud. Stone says he was tricked into signing a rotten contract with Goldstein in 1989, giving the manager control of his finances in exchange for a weekly paycheck.

Last year, Stone sued Goldstein for $50 million, alleging fraud and 20 years of stolen royalty payments. 

 (Contributing to the singer’s dire financial situation, he foolishly sold his valuable -publishing rights tofor a reported $1 million in 1984.)

Goldstein did not return calls seeking comment.

The performer’s cash-flow problems forced him out of his Napa Valley house that he rented with money from a 2007 European tour and into cheap hotels and the van in 2009. Stone hopes to soon put the lawsuit and his other woes behind him