Nick Cave announced the sad news that his model son Jethro, 30, has passed away in a statement issued to fans on Monday. RELATED: Nick Cave's teenage son dies in cliff fallThe Bad Seeds star's short message read: "With much sadness, I can confirm that my son, Jethro, has passed away.
We would be grateful for family privacy at this time." Fans have already started sending love and well wishes to the singer/songwriter after the devastating news. "Oh gosh poor Nick Cave.
What a thing for a father to go through," wrote one on Twitter.WATCH: All the most heartbreaking celebrity deaths Nick had his son Jethro with then-partner Beau Lazenby and earlier this year Jethro was jailed for an assault on his mother.MORE: Nick Cave attends inquest into son Arthur's deathIt has been reported that Jethro, who had a successful modelling career and was based in Melbourne, had suffered from schizophrenia, but the cause of his death is not known.
Nick Cave's model son Jethro Lazenby has tragically died The shock news comes seven years after Nick's son Arthur tragically died after falling off a cliff when he was just 15 years old.
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