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Feb 15, 2024

Dan Le Batard left heartbroken after artist brother dies aged 50 following year

SPORTS host Dan Le Batard has opened his show by sharing some heartbreaking family news. The presenter announced his younger brother David had died at 50. David had been battling an unknown illness

SPORTS host Dan Le Batard has opened his show by sharing some heartbreaking family news.

The presenter announced his younger brother David had died at 50.

David had been battling an unknown illness for the last year and died this week.

An emotional Le Batard, 54, shared the news on his show in an emotional statement.

He announced: "My little brother, my only sibling, my closest family member in a very small family, responsible for all the art around here, and my best friend for 50 years passed away last night at 2am."

“I don’t have a lot of experience with grief, but I have been grieving him for a year.

"When he was diagnosed more than a year ago he’s been steadily deteriorating since.

"It’s been brutally hard to watch a poison eat him up from the inside and one of the biggest spirits I’ve ever seen consumed by illness.”

David was an artist and created the artwork that is on display in his older brother's studio.

In 2016, he created the largest mural approved by the city of Miami Beach - a massive "Welcome to Miami Beach" sign.

Dan continued: "The hospitals and the sickness, and basically I’ve worn one of those X-Ray-leaded vests draped on me for over a year with something I’ve never imagined that I would encounter.

"I was preparing for the death of my parents, so to have my father whisper to my brother last night, ‘We’ll see you soon,’ was a special kind of heartbreaking, because this is inconceivable to me.

“There was grace and freedom at 2am as I’m watching the monitors go down.

"To be in his ear and physically mouth to his ear, telling him that it was OK to go, that he was safe, that he didn’t have a reason to be scared, and to see him stop suffering, and to see him peaceful.

"Amid the horror of that was a seismic and great beauty that I’ll forever be grateful for.”