43 Facts About Pete Wentz

Peter Lewis Kingston Wentz III was born on June 5,1979 and is an American musician best known as the bassist and lyricist for the rock band Fall Out Boy since its formation in 2001.

Pete Wentz has ventured into other non-musical projects, including writing, acting, and fashion; in 2005 he founded a clothing company called Clandestine Industries.

Peter Lewis Kingston Wentz III was born in Wilmette, Illinois, an affluent suburb of Chicago.

Pete Wentz's parents are Dale, a high school admissions counselor, and Pete Wentz II, an attorney.

Pete Wentz is of English and German descent on his father's side and Afro-Jamaican descent on his mother's side.

Pete Wentz has a younger sister, Hillary, and a younger brother, Andrew.

Pete Wentz' parents met in the 1970s while campaigning for Joe Biden's senatorial run.

Pete Wentz recalled in a Rolling Stone interview that his earliest musical memory was listening to The Foundations' song "Build Me Up Buttercup" in the back of his father's car.

Pete Wentz attended North Shore Country Day School, where he was an all-state soccer player.

Pete Wentz was primarily involved in the Chicago hardcore punk scene and was in several bands in the late 1990s.

Pete Wentz formed his first band, First Born, in 1993.

Pete Wentz formed the metalcore band Novena soon after, along with Adam Bishop of XshroudX and Extinction; Daniel Binaei of Racetraitor; and Timothy Miller.

Around this time, Pete Wentz played in Birthright, Extinction and Yellow Road Priest.

Pete Wentz wrote the lyrics to the lead single, "Sugar, We're Goin Down" with his dad in Chicago; the song peaked at No 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent months in the top 50 of the Hot 100, marking five weeks in the top 10 and fourteen weeks in the top 20.

Pete Wentz has said that his personal reason for taking a break is that he feels that his name and marriage to pop singer Ashlee Simpson had become a hindrance for the band.

Pete Wentz added: "I think the world needs a little less Pete Wentz".

Once again, Pete Wentz had main control of song writing duties.

Pete Wentz then contacted producer Sam Hollander and discussed the idea with him to mash up ska, dance and reggae with 80s British rock and pop to create a new experimental sound.

Apart from his musical career, Pete Wentz has been involved in various entrepreneurial ventures.

In 2008, Fender gave his son, Bronx Pete Wentz, a three-quarter-sized modified version of his guitar.

Pete Wentz opened a nightclub in New York with his bandmates as well as members of Gym Class Heroes, The Academy Is.

Pete Wentz appeared in the season 5 episode of CSI: NY, "Point of No Return", along with then-wife Ashlee Simpson.

Pete Wentz hosted the Australia MTV VMAs on March 27,2009.

Pete Wentz collaborated with Mark Hoppus on the track "In Transit" on the Almost Alice soundtrack for the 2010 movie Alice in Wonderland.

Pete Wentz was a judge for the 10th and 11th annual Independent Music Awards to support independent artists' careers.

On January 16,2006 the page published its first post, welcoming people to its BETA version; earlier that day Pete Wentz appeared on MTV's TRL wearing a friendsorenemies.

Pete Wentz has written a book entitled The Boy with the Thorn in His Side, a story based on nightmares he had as a child.

On December 13,2012, Pete Wentz revealed the cover for the book, now titled Gray, on his personal blog.

In June 2009, it was announced that Pete Wentz was working on a five-issue comic book mini-series called Fall Out Toy Works, to be published by Image Comics.

Pete Wentz has a film production company called Bartskull Films, which put out the DVD Release the Bats, starring Pete Wentz, his bandmates, and several of his personal friends.

Pete Wentz has told several sources that he has all the footage to release a sequel, but editing and time constraints have kept him from doing so, and therefore the fate of the project is still up in the air.

Pete Wentz was in a multi-episode arc of the show One Tree Hill, appearing at Tric with the entire band.

Pete Wentz made his first solo cameo in the episode "When It Isn't Like It Should Be" as the romantic interest of Peyton Sawyer, a senior at Tree Hill who had booked the band to play at Tric.

Pete Wentz made a brief cameo appearance in the show Californication.

On February 6,2008, it was reported that Pete Wentz was the leading candidate for writer Diablo Cody's follow-up film to Juno, Jennifer's Body.

Pete Wentz directed a music video for the song "If It's Love" by American rock band Train.

Pete Wentz was a contestant in an episode of the Nickelodeon game show Double Dare.

Pete Wentz has bipolar disorder, and has taken medication for it since he was eighteen.

In February 2005, Pete Wentz attempted suicide by taking an overdose of the anxiety medication Ativan, and as a result, spent a week in the hospital.

Pete Wentz later spoke of his suicide attempt to the support site Halfofus.

Pete Wentz's surname changed from Simpson to Wentz and she was briefly known professionally as Ashlee Simpson-Wentz.

Pete Wentz asked for joint custody and primary physical custody of their son with visitation for Wentz, along with spousal support.

Pete Wentz was a vegetarian for many years, and appeared on the ballot of PETA's third annual "Sexiest Vegetarian" awards.