Jethro Lazenby, model and son of Australian singer Nick Cave, has died. He was 30.
“It is with great sadness that I can confirm that my son Jethro has died. We will be grateful for the privacy of the family at this time, “Cave said in a statement to the media.
No cause of death or other details were reported.
Australian media reported that Lazenby was released on bail on May 5 after being found guilty of physically assaulting his mother in March. His lawyer said he had been diagnosed with schizophrenia.
The BBC reports that Lazenby spent time in prison in 2018 for violently assaulting his then-girlfriend.
Born in Melbourne in 1991, Lazenby is the son of Cave by model Bo Lezenby. He was born just 10 days before Cave Luc’s second son with his first wife, Brazilian journalist and stylist Vivian Carneiro.
He has been a model for several years, walking the track for people like Balenciaga, John Varvatos, Costume National and Versace. He also starred in two films, Corroboree (2007) and My Little Princess from 2011, starring Isabelle Huppert.
In 2012, Lazenby, while using his father’s surname, told the London Evening Standard that his relationship with his father was strained. “I haven’t had the easiest life,” he told Standard. “It didn’t start so great when I had all this nonsense with my father and was in his shadow.
Leisenby revealed to the newspaper that he had not met his father until he was “about seven or eight.”
Cave spoke about his relationship with Lazenby in an interview with the Guardian in 2008. “Unfortunately, I didn’t have much contact with Jethro in the early years, but I have a great relationship with him now,” he said. “It was difficult then, but in the end it turned out to be great.
Lazenby’s death comes seven years after Cave’s 15-year-old son Arthur Cave fell off a cliff in Brighton, England. An investigation into the death found that the teenager had taken LSD before falling to his death. Arthur Cave was the son of the musician by his current wife Susie.
Arthur Cave’s death strongly influenced Nick Cave and Bad Seeds’ 2016 album Skeleton Tree and his subsequent Ghosteen from 2019, and was also touched on in the 2016 documentary One More Time With Feeling.
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