Jethro Cave, son of Nick Cave, dies at 31, seven after his brother Arthur

Jethro Lazenby Cave, son of Nick Cave, parading in Milan, Italy, in June 2010. Stefania D'Alessandro (Getty Images)

Jethro Cave, son of musician Nick Cave and model Beau Lazenby, has died at the age of 31, as announced by the Australian singer in a brief statement.

“It is with great sadness that I have to confirm that my son Jethro has passed away.

We would appreciate it if the family's privacy was respected at this time."

Born and raised in Australia, Jethro was Cave's eldest son, 64, but they had no relationship until the little boy was seven or eight years old, according to

newspaper .

In fact, he often went by his mother's last name first, Jethro Lazenby Cave.

The young man, who worked as a model a decade ago and who paraded for brands such as Balenciaga or Versace and also played small roles in movies, explained it in a 2012 interview. "It was a difficult time, but in the end it turned out great," he said. so.

"It didn't start off so well, having all this shit with my dad and being in the shadows."

After that stage on the catwalks, Jethro Cave launched some musical projects.

His doctor explained that he suffered from schizophrenia when last March he attacked his mother and in April he was found guilty, since he had a history of assaulting a girlfriend four years earlier.

He was jailed and had been released this past weekend.

Only 10 days after Jethro's birth, the singer's second child, Luke, came into the world, whom he had with his then-partner, Viviane Carneiro.

In 1999, Cave married his still-partner, British model Susie Bick, now a designer and founder of the luxury fashion brand The Vampire's Wife.

In the year 2000 the couple had twins, two boys named Arthur and Earl.

In July 2015, 15-year-old Arthur died after falling off a cliff in the British city of Brighton, where the musician lives with his family.

As it was known months later, the young man had taken LSD, according to the subsequent investigation and as also pointed out by a friend who was accompanying him at the time.

“Both children suffered from the effects of the drug before they were separated.