Nick Caves son Jethro Lazenby has died aged 31

Nick Cave has appealed for privacy following the death of his son Jethro Lazenby at the age of 31.

"With much sadness, I can confirm that my son, Jethro, has passed away. We would be grateful for family privacy at this time." the singer said in a statement to NME.

Cave lost another son, 15-yer-old Arthur, in 2015 when he fell to his death from a cliff in Cave's adopted hometown of Brighton in the UK.

Jethro was born in Melbourne in 1991 and only learnt that Cave was his father aged eight.

He worked as a model and also appeared in movies such as 2007's Corroboree and 2011's My Little Princess. Recently, he had been working as a photographer.

Jethro was jailed following an assault on his mother, Beau Lazenby, in Melbourne in April.

His legal representatives argued that he had recently been diagnosed with schizophrenia and that his judgement had been affected.

Jethro was released on bail from Melbourne Remand Centre last Thursday after a magistrate instructed that he must undergo substance abuse treatment and avoid contact with his mother for the next two years.

In 2018 he had committed a series of assaults on his girlfriend which saw him spend time in jail.

Nick Cave previously opened up about how he dealt with his loss and grief following Arthur's death, his son with wife Susie.

Writing in 2020, he said, "Susie and I have learned much about the nature of grief over recent years. We have come to see that grief is not something you pass through, as there is no other side,"

"For us, grief became a way of life, an approach to living, where we learned to yield to the uncertainty of the world, whilst maintaining a stance of defiance to its indifference. We surrendered to something over which we had no control, but which we refused to take lying down.

Nick Cave

"Grief became both an act of submission and of resistance - a place of acute vulnerability where, over time, we developed a heightened sense of the brittleness of existence. Eventually, this awareness of life's fragility led us back to the world, transformed."

He added, "We found grief contained many things - happiness, empathy, commonality, sorrow, fury, joy, forgiveness, combativeness, gratitude, awe, and even a certain peace.

"For us, grief became an attitude, a belief system, a doctrine - a conscious inhabiting of our vulnerable selves, protected and enriched by the absence of the one we loved and that we lost."

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