'Euphoria's' Dominic Fike is on the verge of pop stardom, whether he likes it or not
LOS ANGELES — When Dominic Fike landed in Los Angeles in late 2018 — this was after he got out of jail in his native Florida and after a brief spell in Colorado, where he went because he'd never seen snow — the musician and actor with the tattooed babyface moved into a nouveau riche mansion in the Hollywood Hills.
"The rent was like 30 grand a month," he recalls. "It was ridiculous and disgusting. We called it the Porn House."
Fike, whose good looks and dirtbag charisma earned him a multimillion-dollar record deal before he'd even dropped so much as a major-label single, threw a New Year's Eve party that year that attracted "some kids who were acting out," as he puts it — meaning one of them had punched his manager in the face, which led Fike to charge downstairs wielding a knife only to discover that the troublemakers had split.
"I was so glad they were gone when I came down," he says now. "I'm standing in this Hollywood crib at 7 in the morning. People are on acid. What was I gonna do with the knife?" He laughs wearily. "I was like, 'I should move.'"
Fike, 27, tells this
