After being convicted of assault against his mother in Australia, the fashion model was just released.
Nick Cave has confirmed the death of his oldest son Jethro, who was 31 years old.
“With great regret, I can confirm that my son, Jethro, has died away,” he wrote in a brief statement. At this time, we would appreciate family privacy.”
Nick and Beau Lazenby welcomed Jethro into the world in 1991. Nick’s second son Luke was born ten days after Jethro, to Nick’s first wife Viviane Carneiro; Jethro grew up in Australia and subsequently revealed that he didn’t meet Nick until he was seven or eight years old. In 2008, Nick told a journalist, “It was a trying time, but it came out amazing in the end.” “To my eternal sorrow, I didn’t spend much time with Jethro in his early years, but we now have a wonderful relationship.” “It didn’t start off that great, having all this garbage with my dad and being in his shadow,” Jethro stated in a 2012 interview.
Jethro became a model after migrating to the UK as a young man, working for brands such as Balenciaga and Versace; he was photographed by Hedi Slimane, the creative director of Celine. He also began his own musical endeavours.
After violently assaulting his mother in March, he was convicted guilty of criminal assault in April. He was diagnosed with schizophrenia, according to his lawyer. Last Sunday, he was released from prison. He was previously convicted of assaulting his then-girlfriend in 2018.
Cave has now lost two of his four sons, when his 15-year-old son Arthur died after plunging from a cliff near Brighton. He was characterised as a “beautiful, cheerful, loving boy” in a statement announcing his death, and the impact of his loss on Cave was examined in the documentary One More Time With Feeling, which centred on the development of the album Skeleton Tree.
