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Presley Gerber, the one son of supermodel Cindy Crawford and businessman Rande Gerber, has died. He was 27.
Presley Gerber – who adopted in his mom’s modeling footsteps as a youngster – died on Sunday, Sept. 20, at a rehab facility, in response to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner information. TMZ was the primary outlet to report the information.
Crawford’s publicist confirmed his loss of life to USA TODAY, offering the next assertion: “The household is asking for privateness throughout this very troublesome and painful time.”
An post-mortem is pending completion, in response to TMZ. The trigger and method of loss of life haven’t been launched to the general public.
Who was Presley Gerber?
Born in Beverly Hills, California, in 1999, Presley Gerber was the older brother of Kaia Gerber, the mannequin and actress. He grew up in a high-profile leisure and trend household earlier than constructing his personal profession as a runway star.
He signed with IMG Fashions at age 15 and entered the style world alongside his sister. He made his runway debut for Moschino in Los Angeles at 17 and later walked for main homes like Dolce & Gabbana. He additionally appeared in worldwide campaigns for Calvin Klein and Celine.
As his public profile grew, he additionally grew to become more and more clear concerning the private challenges he was navigating.
In December 2018, he’d been arrested and charged with a DUI in Beverly Hills and later pleaded no contest. He was sentenced to 3 years’ probation and needed to full a DUI program and two days’ neighborhood service. The next yr, the rising mannequin’s profession slowed as he started specializing in himself amid intense public scrutiny.
He shocked followers in 2020 when he unveiled a brand new face tattoo that learn “MISUNDERSTOOD.”
“If I assumed this was going to wreck my face or I didn’t need this, I wouldn’t have performed it. I feel that’s a reasonably apparent factor,” he defined to viewers in an Instagram video, Web page Six reported. “It says misunderstood, as a result of that’s how I felt my total life.”
He apparently eliminated the ink work a yr later.
Presley Gerber talks struggles with psychological well being, melancholy
In a February 2023 look on the Studio 22 podcast, Presley Gerber spoke about his private battles, calling psychological well being a “huge half” of his life and a “24/7 job.”
“Having struggled with psychological well being, melancholy and another issues that come together with that, I feel that whether or not I assist one particular person or 100 individuals get out of that place that I used to be in at one level in my life, that’s all I have to do,” he stated.
Presley Gerber hoped to make use of his expertise to assist others dealing with their very own difficulties: “That’s actually what I need to do: assist individuals. Whether or not you’re depressed, you’re scuffling with one thing that’s having a adverse impact in your physique. I imply it could possibly be something, and there’s no judgment.”
He later used social media to debate psychological well being consciousness and restoration in a video collection known as “Psychological Well being Mondays.”
Presley Gerber revealed in a since-deleted December 2025 video that he needed to take numerous depressant drugs – Buprenorphine, Xanax and valium – to handle his psychological well being signs and deal with panic assaults.
“The docs say loads of various things, so it is sort of scary, however hopefully between my analysis and their analysis … and God, we are able to determine this out,” he stated of his treatment routine on the time, in response to Folks journal. “The issues that scare me are the issues you have to take … in the event you do not take them, one thing not good occurs. And there is a spectrum there on how intense the withdrawal from sure drugs is.”
In a March 26 Instagram submit, Gerber wrote that he had undergone an ibogaine (a plant-based psychoactive compound) “flood dose,” describing the expertise as horrifying however saying he had confronted what he had been “working from” and was discovering his manner again to himself.
Kaia Gerber on brother Presley Gerber’s ‘decade-long wrestle with drug habit’
The “Shards” actress additionally spoke about her brother’s “decade-long wrestle with drug habit” in a Vogue cowl story printed in August.
“When one thing like that occurs in a household, it sort of ranges everybody,” she advised the publication. “I feel that’s additionally why I began to self-determine as the simple one and by no means wished to ask for assist. As a result of it felt like an excessive amount of to have two kids who have been needing.”
She added that her mother and father largely saved their household life non-public, whereas her brother had chosen to be extra candid about his experiences: “There’s solely a lot you’ll be able to conceal from the world. And making an attempt to place a lid on one thing simply makes the particular person really feel such as you’re ashamed of them.”
Presley Gerber is survived by his mom, Cindy Crawford; his father, Rande Gerber; and sister Kaia Gerber.
