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Jackson Browne’s son Ethan Browne has died at age 52
Ethan was a model and actor, and appeared in the film Raising Helen
Browne wrote on Facebook that he was found “unresponsive in his home”
Jackson Browne is mourning the loss of his son Ethan Browne.
The singer-songwriter, 77, announced Ethan’s death on Wednesday, Nov. 26 in a statement shared to Facebook. Ethan, a model and actor, was 52.
“It 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,” the statement read. “We ask for privacy and respect for the family during this difficult time. No further details are available at this moment.”
Major, who married the “Running on Empty” singer in 1975, died by suicide at age 30 in March 1976, when Ethan was a toddler.
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.
Ethan had a role in the 2004 Kate Hudson film Raising Helen, and was also a model who appeared in campaigns for designers like Isaac Mizrahi, according to producer Mark Ronson’s memoir Night People.
In the book, Ronson recalled befriending Ethan, who at the time was roommates in New York City with Simon Rex. Ronson described Ethan as “the real deal — with an angular face and soulful gaze that seemed to reveal his deepest truths, even from a glossy page.”
He also wrote that Ethan had the “sharp cheekbones” of his late mother, and the “soulful eyes” of his dad. Ethan was also the founder of Spinside Records, an imprint on Browne’s independent label Inside Recordings.
Browne said in a 2021 interview with Route Magazine that after losing Major, being a dad to Ethan was his “main focus” in life.
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Jackson Browne at the Tribeca Festival in New York in June 2025.
“I only had two things that I hoped I could fit together: being a songwriter and a father,” he said. “And I looked at it like this, if I have to only be a father, I hope I’ll know it, and just do that. “
In 2022, Browne praised his son’s skills as a father in an interview with Tru Rock Revival.
“Ethan is a great father. He’s a great son, a great man,” Browne said. “I 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. It makes me feel I’ve done something really right in my life.”
Browne is also dad to son Ryan, 43, with ex-wife Lynne Sweeney.
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