Losing a child is every parent’s worst fear — the heartbreak of which singer Nick Cave has already lived through. Now, with the death of his eldest son, Jethro Lazenby, 31, less than seven years after his son Arthur, aged 15, died by falling from a cliff in Brighton after taking LSD, it’s an unimaginable horror he’s suffered twice.
The Bad Seeds singer announced the death of Jethro, a former model and actor, who was born in Melbourne in 1991 to Cave and his model mother Beau Lazenby, this week. The cause of death is not yet known. “With much sadness, I can confirm that my son, Jethro, has passed away,” said the 64-year-old. “We would be grateful for family privacy at this time.” Just days before his death, Jethro had been released on bail from prison, where he’d been jailed for assaulting his mother.
