Overview
- The family said Ethan Browne was found unresponsive at his Los Angeles home on the morning of Nov. 25 and has died.
- Jackson Browne shared the news in a Nov. 26 statement on social media requesting privacy and saying no further details are available.
- Officials have not determined a cause of death, which the medical examiner lists as “deferred” while additional tests and inquiries proceed.
- Ethan worked as a model and actor with credits including Hackers (1995), Raising Helen (2004) and the TV series Birds of Prey.
- He founded Spinside Records under Jackson Browne’s Inside Recordings and was widely remembered from a 1974 Rolling Stone cover with his father; his mother, Phyllis Major, died by suicide in 1976.