You were kind, talented and, yes, incredibly handsome : Nick Kamen s ex-girlfriend Amanda de Cadenet pays tribute to the late model with throwback snap and gushing message
The Essex-born model, real name Ivor Neville Kamen, died at his £1million flat in Notting Hill, West London, on Tuesday after a battle with bone marrow cancer
Amanda, 48, posted a 1998 throwback image of Nick with her daughter Atlanta, now 29, alongside a gushing caption praising her late love
Amanda and Nick embarked on a much-publicised romance from 1999 to 2001, after which he adopted a lower profile and was rarely seen in public
They knew each other since she was 14 and he was 25
Nick Kamen, model who starred in a celebrated jeans ad and went on to forge a career in pop music – obituary
The vision of Kamen stripping to his boxer shorts boosted sales of Levi 501s by 800 per cent, and he was later taken under Madonna’s wing
6 May 2021 • 11:44am
Nick Kamen at a signing session in 1987 for his self-titled debut album
Credit: Nick Kamen at a signing session in 1987 for his self-titled debut album
Nick Kamen, who has died of cancer aged 59, had some success as a singer but was best known as the bronzed and toned model in the 1985 Levi’s ad stripping down to his boxers in a launderette to the strains of Marvin Gaye’s I Heard It Through the Grapevine – an ad which regularly features in “best-ever” lists.
Madonna Protégé Nick Kamen Dead at 59
As the BBC reports, Kamen died on Tuesday night (May 4) after battling a long illness.
The Essex-born star rose to fame in the 80s as both a model and singer, with Kamen famously appearing in a 1985 Launderette commercial for Levi s. The hugely successful ad soon found him turning to music and Madonna, who co-wrote and sang on his hit single Each Time You Break My Heart in 1986. In addition to becoming a Top 5 hit in the UK, it also charted in Canada upon release. Each Time You Break My Heart appeared on Kamen s self-titled album, which also spawned the hit Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever. In 1988, Kamen released his second album
The death has been announced of Nick Kamen, the British model and singer best known for his starring role in the iconic 1985 Levi's laundrette advert and his 1986 hit Each Time You Break My Heart. He was 59.
It s heart-breaking to know you are gone : Madonna pays an emotional tribute to her protégé and Levi s launderette model Nick Kamen after his death aged 59 from bone marrow cancer
The music icon, 62, took to Instagram shortly after news of his passing to share pictures and a tribute
In her poignant post, she wrote: You were always such a kind sweet human and you suffered too much
Essex-born model, real name Ivor Neville Kamen, had been suffering from bone marrow cancer for years
News of death emerged after tributes from friends including Boy George, who called him the sweetest man