Overview

• The campaign seeks $20,000 to repay rent-related debts and has raised just over $2,000 as of October 7, according to the fundraiser page.
• Organizer Gisette Hidalgo set up the appeal to help Marshall avoid homelessness by clearing what is owed to his landlord.
• The fundraiser text attributes his prolonged financial decline to COVID-era work disruptions, a serious health condition, depression, and the loss of his employer and best friend.
• Exclaim! reports the GoFundMe states his employer was killed by the LAPD, leaving Marshall without his primary source of income for roughly 14 years of work.
• Marshall briefly played guitar for RHCP in 1992 during the Blood Sugar Sex Magik tour and later worked with artists such as Sting, Etta James, and Macy Gray, with recent photos showing ties to drummer Chad Smith.