Presley Gerber, son of supermodel Cindy Crawford, dies at 27

On September 20, 2026, Presley Gerber — son of Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber, and a young man who had made his private suffering into a public offering — died at 27 at a rehabilitation facility in Los Angeles. In a culture that often rewards the polished and conceals the broken, he had chosen a different path, speaking openly about depression and addiction in the hope that his honesty might lighten someone else's burden. His death arrives as a quiet, painful reminder that the courage to speak about one's struggles does not guarantee survival — and that the work of healing is, as he once said