Jethro Lazenby, Nick Cave's oldest son, has died at age 31. A cause of death has not been released. "With much sadness, I can confirm that my son, Jethro, has passed away," Cave wrote in a brief statement to the press on Monday. "We would be grateful for family privacy at this time.” Lazenby was born in 1991 in Melbourne, Australia.
His mother, Beau Lazenby, gave birth to him 10 days before Cave's second son Luke was born to his first wife, Viviane Carneiro.
Lazenby didn't meet his father until he was seven or eight years old, an absence for which Cave expressed regret in a 2008 interview with The Guardian, though he said they had later grown close.
Read Next: Listen to Ghosteen, the new album from Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds After moving to London as a young man and starting a modeling career, Lazenby returned to Australia.
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