Presley Gerber, the son of Cindy Crawford and brother of model Kaia Gerber, was found dead at the age of 27 at a rehabilitation facility where he had been staying.

The news was reported by TMZ and People, citing the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office.

The tragic news was confirmed by a representative of Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber’s family, who said, “the family requests privacy during this extremely difficult and painful time.”

The cause of death of the 27-year-old is not yet known, as the autopsy has not been completed.

Presley Gerber, who was born in Beverly Hills, California, in 1999, followed in his mother’s footsteps and pursued a career in modeling, while he had also spoken openly about the difficulties he faced with his mental health and substance dependence.

Presley signed with IMG Models at the age of 15. By the time he was 17, both he and Kaia — who was 14 at the time — had already attracted the attention of the fashion industry. Presley made his runway debut at a Moschino show in Los Angeles, walked in a Dolce & Gabbana show in Milan and appeared in a Calvin Klein campaign.

In a 2016 interview with W magazine, he said that during his first runway appearances, his only thought was: “Don’t fall. That’s it. I would tell myself, ‘Please don’t trip, just make it to the end.’ I get distracted easily, so if I focus on what I’m doing, I can do it better.”

In 2018, he told PEOPLE that working alongside Kaia made modeling “much less lonely.” He also revealed that, despite getting good grades in school, he did not plan to attend university: “I thought about it for a while, but then I started working. And now I’m having so much fun that I think: if something works, don’t try to fix it.”

His struggles with mental health

In December 2019, he was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, while in 2020 he had the word “MISUNDERSTOOD” tattooed on his face, which he removed a year later.

“Having struggled with mental health issues, depression and other issues that come with them, I believe that whether I help one person or a hundred people get out of the place I was once in, that is enough for me,” he said on the Studio 22 podcast.

“Mental health is an issue. It is such a huge part of my life. It is a job that never stops and has so many aspects to it. That is really what I want to do: help people, whether they have depression or are struggling with something that negatively affects their body. It could be anything, and there is no judgment. I have seen a lot of things and I have learned a lot. What I hope to achieve is that I have made the mistakes on behalf of other people, so that they do not have to make the same mistakes I made,” Presley Gerber said at the time.

Presley had started posting videos on Instagram under the title “Mental Health Mondays.” In one of them, posted in 2024, he spoke about the rehabilitation groups he had participated in and how people can find common ground with others.

In another video in July 2025, he discussed the healthy habits he had adopted in his life, saying that he had grown up as a “very active” child, playing sports and taking part in surfing, water polo and swimming. However, when he began working, he said, sports took a back seat. “My quality of life declined dramatically,” he said, adding that it took him “10 years” to realize that he needed to reconnect with physical activity.

In an Instagram video posted in December 2025 and later deleted, Presley spoke openly about the medications he was taking, including buprenorphine, Xanax and Valium, to treat panic attacks. “Unfortunately, I have experienced a lot of loss in many different forms recently, so that’s not an excuse, but it is the reason I am in the situation I am in today,” he said, adding that he wanted his video to reach people in many different ways.

In the September 2026 issue of Vogue, Kaia Gerber spoke about what the magazine described as Presley’s ‘decade-long battle with drug addiction’. “When something like this happens in a family, it equalizes everyone,” Kaia said, adding that she often put her own needs second. “I think that’s why I started to consider myself the easy child, and I never wanted to ask for help. It felt like too much to have two children who needed support.”

She said she found it refreshing that her brother spoke so openly about his life. “Our parents, for most of our lives, were very private people and didn’t share almost anything. And now we have this incredible teacher, my brother, who says, ‘I’m going to be completely human for everyone.’ There are only so many things you can hide from the world. And when you try to hide something, you just make the other person feel like you’re ashamed of them.”

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