{"id":421301,"date":"2026-01-18T13:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T13:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/421301\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T13:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T13:49:07","slug":"cause-of-death-revealed-for-actor-model-who-was-rock-legends-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/421301\/","title":{"rendered":"Cause of death revealed for actor, model who was rock legend\u2019s son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ethan Browne, the son of legendary singer-songwriter Jackson Browne, was found dead in his home back on Nov. 25.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">And now we know what tragically took his life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/entertainment\/news\/jackson-browne-s-son-ethan-s-cause-of-death-revealed-after-actor-died-at-52\/ar-AA1UanTI?ocid=entnewsntp&amp;pc=U531&amp;cvid=69672a0536ca440ebc09e415ef6ad79a&amp;ei=10\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Rolling Stone reported;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Rolling Stone reported<\/a> that the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner said on Tuesday that Browne, 52, died from the \u201ceffects of fentanyl, methamphetamine and lidocaine.\u201d The outlet reported that the death was ruled accidental.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Jackson Brown announced his son\u2019s death last year with a post on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cIt is with deep sorrow that we share that on the morning of November 25, 2025, Ethan Browne, the son of Jackson Browne and Phyllis Major, was found unresponsive in his home and passed away,\u201d the statement read. \u201cWe ask for privacy and respect for the family during this difficult time. No further details are available at this moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/news\/ni65592420\/?ref_=nm_nwr_2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:IMDB reported;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">IMDB reported<\/a>that the Lost Angeles Coroner\u2019s Office listed his cause of death as \u201cdeferred\u201d at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/jackson-browne-son-ethan-dead-52-11858215\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:People Magazine;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">People Magazine<\/a> reported that he was an actor, model and musician.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The outlet noted that Ethan made an appearance on the cover of Rolling Stone with his father in 1974 when he was just weeks old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As an actor, he had a role in Kate Hudson\u2019s 2004 film \u201cRaising Helen,\u201d and as a model he worked for designers such as Isaac Mizrahi, per People. His IMDB page also lists roles in the TV series \u201cBirds of Prey,\u201d and the movie, \u201cHackers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Browne\u2019s mother, Phyllis Major, died by suicide in 1975.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Jackson Browne said in 2021 interview with Route Magazine that following her death he turned his focus to raising his son.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI only had two things that I hoped I could fit together: being a songwriter and a father,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I looked at this, if I have to only be a father, I hope I\u2019ll know it, and just do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the original article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pennlive.com\/entertainment\/2026\/01\/cause-of-death-revealed-for-actor-model-who-was-rock-legends-son.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:pennlive.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">pennlive.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ethan Browne, the son of legendary singer-songwriter Jackson Browne, was found dead in his home back on Nov.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134,218213,144016,221777,12222],"class_list":["post-421301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ethan-browne","tag-jackson-browne","tag-phyllis-major","tag-rolling-stone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}