{"id":268130,"date":"2026-05-12T15:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T15:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/268130\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T15:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T15:45:09","slug":"jon-bon-jovis-musician-son-graduates-college-at-um","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/268130\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Bon Jovi\u2019s musician son graduates college at UM"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jon Bon Jovi. <\/p>\n

Kevin Winter\/Getty Images for The Latin Recording Academy<\/p>\n

Jon Bon Jovi\u2019s an empty-nester.<\/p>\n

The \u201880s hair-band legend\u2019s youngest (with wife of 37 years Dorothea Hurley) graduated from University of Miami\u2019s Frost School of Music on Friday.<\/p>\n

Romeo Bongiovi, which is the rocker\u2019s real last name, posed with his famous dad at the commencement ceremony in a pic widely shared on social media. Smiling widely, they both threw up a hand to form the Coral Gables college\u2019s signature \u201cU\u201d symbol.<\/p>\n

So what will Romeo do now that his studies are over? Not surprisingly, the apple doesn\u2019t fall far from the tree in this family. The 22-year-old will likely continue working on songs and playing guitar with his indie-punk band called Lawn, a campus fave. On Instagram, fans can see the dates of future shows.<\/p>\n

According to UM\u2019s Hurricanes newsletter<\/a>, which spotlighted Lawn in a recent issue, the quartet is \u201cexperimenting with their sound through raw emotions and real world occurrences.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for what Bon Jovi and Hurley will do now that their kids are full-fledged adults? The parents of four will certainly stay busy. The high school sweethearts (yes!) split their time between their home state of New Jersey, the Hamptons and Palm Beach, where they moved part-time in 2018. In July 2020, the pair purchased a $43 million beachfront home on the same day they sold their original place nearby for roughly $20 million.<\/p>\n

Beside being empty-nesters, Hurley, 63, and Bon Jovi, 64, are newish grandparents. Their middle son, actor-model Jake, 24, adopted a baby girl with his actress wife Millie Bobby Brown last summer. Their eldest son, 31-year-old wine entrepreneur Jesse, welcomed a daughter with his influencer wife Jesse Light this past November.<\/p>\n

And, as anyone who has followed the \u201cLivin\u2019 on a Prayer\u201d singer for decades knows, Bon Jovi doesn\u2019t stay idle long, despite a nagging health issue. This summer, Bon Jovi and his beloved namesake band will head out on the 2026 Forever\u2019 Tour, marking their return to live performances after the star\u2019s vocal cord surgery in 2022. Things will kick off at Madison Square Garden in New York City with a four-night residency July 7, then move on to three stadium shows in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n


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Madeleine Marr<\/a><\/p>\n

Miami Herald<\/p>\n

Celebrity\/real time news reporter Madeleine Marr has been with The Miami Herald since 2003. She has covered such features as travel, fashion and food. In 2007, she helped launch the newspaper\u2019s daily People Page, attending red carpet events, awards ceremonies and press junkets; interviewing some of the biggest names in show business; and hosting her own online show. She is originally from New York City.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jon Bon Jovi. Kevin Winter\/Getty Images for The Latin Recording Academy Jon Bon Jovi\u2019s an empty-nester. The \u201880s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-268130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}