“With great sadness, I can confirm that my son, Jethro, has passed away […] We would be grateful for the privacy of the family at this time,”
Nick Cave announced on Tuesday May 10 in a press release.
The baritone singer, frontman of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, however, did not specify the reasons for the death of his 31-year-old son.
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Jethro was released a few days ago from a month-long detention in Melbourne, after assaulting his mother Beau Lazenby.
According to the American media, this is not the first time that he has been convicted of acts of violence.
In 2018, he assaulted his then-girlfriend.
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also reveals that the model, actor and photographer had schizophrenia.
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A belated father-son relationship
If the relationship between Nick Cave, who had given up performing in Russia last March in protest against the war in Ukraine, and his eldest son had apparently not started on the right foot, it has improved in recent years.
“It was a tough time, but it all ended well in the end.
To my eternal regret, I didn't have much contact with Jethro in the first years, but I now have an excellent relationship with him
,” he confided in 2008. Jethro, born ten days before the second son of Nick Cave, Luke, had meanwhile revealed that he only met his father when he was seven or eight years old.
Father of four children, Nick Cave had already suffered the loss of his son Arthur seven years ago, then aged 15.
The boy, from the singer's union with British actress and model Susie Bick, died of an accidental fall from a cliff in Brighton, under the influence of LSD.
The albums
Skeleton Tree
(2016) and
Ghosteen
(2019), had been deeply inspired by the tragedy experienced by the singer and his wife.
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