The singer-songwriter, 77, announced Ethan\u2019s death on Wednesday, Nov. 26 in a statement shared to Facebook<\/a>. Ethan, a model and actor, was 52.<\/p>\n \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 has 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 Major, who married the \u201cRunning on Empty\u201d singer in 1975, died by suicide at age 30 in March 1976, when Ethan was a toddler.<\/p>\n In 1974, when he was a few weeks old, Ethan appeared with his famous father on the cover of Rolling Stone in a photograph that showed Browne holding his young son and nuzzling up to his face.<\/p>\n Ethan had a role in the 2004 Kate Hudson<\/a> film Raising Helen, and was also a model who appeared in campaigns for designers like Isaac Mizrahi<\/a>, according to producer Mark Ronson<\/a>\u2019s memoir Night People.<\/p>\n In the book, Ronson recalled befriending Ethan, who at the time was roommates in New York City with Simon Rex<\/a>. Ronson described Ethan as \u201cthe real deal \u2014 with an angular face and soulful gaze that seemed to reveal his deepest truths, even from a glossy page.\u201d<\/p>\n He also wrote that Ethan had the \u201csharp cheekbones\u201d of his late mother, and the \u201csoulful eyes\u201d of his dad. Ethan was also the founder of Spinside Records, an imprint on Browne’s independent label Inside Recordings.<\/p>\n Browne said in a 2021 interview with Route Magazine<\/a> that after losing Major, being a dad to Ethan was his \u201cmain focus\u201d in life.<\/p>\n John Nacion\/Variety via Getty<\/p>\n Jackson Browne at the Tribeca Festival in New York in June 2025.<\/p>\n \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 it like this, if I have to only be a father, I hope I\u2019ll know it, and just do that. \u201c<\/p>\n In 2022, Browne praised his son\u2019s skills as a father in an interview with Tru Rock Revival.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cEthan is a great father. He’s a great son, a great man,\u201d Browne said. \u201cI love seeing him with his kids. When I see him in his movies, modeling, with his daughter, and being such a great dad, it makes me very proud.\u00a0It makes me feel I’ve done something really right in my life.\u201d<\/p>\n Browne is also dad to son Ryan, 43, with ex-wife Lynne Sweeney.<\/p>\n![\"John](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/bd30092c5c3500d5f6a839092f1d5eec.jpeg\"\/)
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