“It is with great sorrow that I can confirm that my son Jethro has died. At the moment, we would be grateful for respecting the privacy of the family, “confirmed Nick Cave.
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Jethro Lazenby was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1991. He did not learn that Cave was his father until he was eight years old. “It was a difficult time, but in the end it turned out great,” Nick said in an interview in 2008.
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“To my regret, I didn’t have much contact with Jethro in the first years, but now I have a great relationship with him,” he added. In an interview in 2012, Jethro said, “It wasn’t so great with my father to be in his shadow.”
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Singer Nick Cave
Photo: ČTK / Šulová Kateřina
The young man ended up behind bars for a while after attacking his mother Beai Lazenby. He was released on May 5.
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The court ordered a young man diagnosed with schizophrenia to be treated for drugs and banned contact with his mother for two years.
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Jethro is already the second of four sons of a 64-year-old rock musician who died prematurely. Arthur, 15, died seven years ago when he fell off a cliff in Brighton, England, after ingesting LSD.
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