Nick Cave has revealed that his eldest son, Jethro Lazenby, died at the age of 30.
“I can confirm that my son, Jethro, has passed away with great sadness,” the musician stated in a statement.
“At this time, we would want family privacy.”
Lazenby, an actor, and model, had recently been sentenced to prison for a violent attack on his mother, Beau Lazenby, at her Melbourne home.
Cave’s son Arthur died at the age of 15 after plunging off a cliff in Brighton, and his death occurs less than seven years later.
The adolescent had used LSD before the fall, which the coroner decided was unintentional, according to an inquiry.
Cave later wrote on the “vastness” of his sadness and how he could always feel Arthur with him.
“Even though he may not be present, I hear him speak to me, parent me, and guide me.”
Because “Brighton had just become too melancholy,” the artist, best known for his work with The Bad Seeds, later moved to Los Angeles with his wife.
“We did, however, return once we realized that we just took our misery with us everywhere we went,” he reflected.
Jethro Lazenby was born in Melbourne in 1991 and was only eight years old when he discovered that Cave was his father.
After being scouted in the city, he began modeling and acted in the 2007 film Corroboree and 2011 feature My Little Princess, starring Isabelle Huppert. He had also worked as a photographer recently.
He was just freed on bail from Melbourne Remand Centre on Thursday, May 5th, after a magistrate ordered him to seek substance abuse therapy and stay away from his mother for the next two years.
A court had previously heard how Beau found her son at her front door on March 7, 2022, and allowed him to stay the night.
The two argued the next morning, during which Lazenby kneed his mother in the face, causing her to bleed and bruise.
According to the court, she ran to a nearby tavern and urged them to contact the cops.
Sean Ghattas, Lazenby’s lawyer, said that his client had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, which had impacted his judgment.
In 2018, he was sentenced to prison for a series of violent attacks on his then-girlfriend.
