- On January 30, 2018, Salling's body was found hanging by rope, a death later ruled as suicide. News of Salling's death broke a few weeks before his sentencing for possession of child pornography.
- On December 29, 2015 Salling was arrested in connection with possession of child pornography. He was booked in downtown Los Angeles. Police obtained a warrant to search his house in Sunland, California where officers found hundreds of images on his computer. This was not his first brush with the law. He paid an ex-girlfriend $2.7 million for knocking her to the ground after she confronted him with a charge of sexual battery.
- Originally lied about his age in his Glee (2009) audition -- he said he was 19, but he was really 26. Ryan Murphy finally called him out on this fib, but to Salling's relief his older age was preferred for the role.
- Played the guitar, piano, bass, and drums.
- Distant cousin of actress Tiffani Thiessen.
- Had an active love of birds and wildlife and volunteered with the James Hunter Wildlife Rescue charity.
- Good friends of Dianna Agron, Lea Michele, Cory Monteith and Chord Overstreet.
- Played piano since age five, and could also play drums, guitar, and bass.
- Had a dog named Noah Saw Salling and Lea Michele helped him pick out that name.
- Dianna Agron's nickname for him was 'Ookie'.
- It took him 8 years to write the songs for his album Pipe Dreams.
- Good friends with Rob Kardashian (Kim Kardashian's brother). They usually hang out together or play golf.
- He had English and German, and smaller amounts of Scottish, Dutch, and Irish, ancestry.
- On September 30, 2017, he pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography, which was expected to result in Salling being sentenced to four to seven years in jail, in addition to registering as a sex offender and entering a treatment program, among other conditions. The guilty plea was formalized on December 18, 2017, and Salling's sentencing date was set for March 7, 2018.
- Had a dog named Hank.
- In January 2013, Salling's ex-girlfriend Roxanne Gorzel] accused him of committing sexual battery on March 25, 2011, by having unprotected sex without her knowing that it was unprotected. He denied the charges and filed a counter-suit for defamation of character.[26] In March 2015, Salling settled with Gorzela out of court and agreed to pay her $2.7 million.
- On December 29, 2015, Salling was arrested at his Los Angeles home on suspicion of possessing several thousand photos and videos depicting child pornography, following a tip-off to the police from one of his ex-girlfriends. He was released later on $20,000 bail, but a search pursuant to a warrant found more than 50,000 images of child pornography, downloaded between April and December 2015, on his computer and USB flash drives.
- On May 27, 2016, he was charged with receiving and possessing child pornography. As a result of the charges, Salling was removed from the cast of Adi Shankar's film Gods and Secrets.
- Top 40/70 in Sexiest & Hottest Men in 2011.
- Salling was a long-time member of the Echo Park Ornithology Club in Los Angeles, and even penned their theme song. The president and founder of the organization said that Salling "really enjoyed birdwatching a lot, and he really cared about birds... he had a lot of animals at his house and he worked at an animal rescue when I knew him. We went birdwatching together.".
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