Diane Keaton’s son, Duke, is grieving his late mom.
The 25-year-old was seen in public for the first time since the legendary actress died at age 79 on Saturday.
Duke was photographed leaving Diane’s Los Angeles home on Sunday, wearing all black and carrying a backpack on his shoulders.
Duke Keaton outside his late mother’s Los Angeles home on Sunday, Oct. 12. ROL/X17online.com
Duke Keaton steps out in Los Angeles on Oct. 12. ROL/X17online.com
Diane Keaton’s son, Duke Keaton, outside her LA home. ROL/X17online.com
He subtly honored the “First Wives Club” icon by wearing two silver cross necklaces, paying tribute to Diane’s signature “devoted nun” style. The look, which she introduced in the 1990s, involved wearing multiple crosses layered together.
Duke Keaton spotted publicly for the first time after his mom’s death. ROL/X17online.com
Duke Keaton seen leaving Diane Keaton’s home in Los Angeles on Oct. 12. ROL/X17online.com
Duke Keaton wore all black the day after his mother’s death. ROL/X17online.comDiane adopted her son Duke and daughter Dexter, 29, in her 50s and raised them as a single mother.
“Motherhood was not an urge I couldn’t resist,” she once told Ladies Home Journal. “It was more like a thought I’d been thinking for a very long time. So I plunged in.”
Diane Keaton with her son Duke and daughter Dexter at the after-party for American Film Institute’s 45th Life Achievement Award Gala in June 2017. Getty Images for AFI
Diane Keaton with her son Duke at the “And So It Goes” premiere in East Hampton, New York, in July 2014. Getty ImagesIn 2005, Diane told Life Magazine: “The shocking thing is that I worry differently now. Before kids, if I worried, it was only about myself, but that’s all you do is worry as a parent. It’s rule number one in parenting: secretly worry without letting the kids know you’re worried.”
Diane Keaton with her two children at the “Book Club” premiere in May 2018. FilmMagicDiane’s children have largely stayed out of the spotlight over the years, though they did make a rare public appearance at Diane’s Hand & Footprint Ceremony in LA in August 2022.
At the event, Diane was asked what it meant to have her kids there, and she replied: “Everything. I love them.”
The “Father of the Bride” actress also said during the ceremony of her children, “They have no interest in what I do, which I think is very healthy. We live a relatively normal — well, sort of normal — life.”
Diane Keaton with daughter Dexter and son Duke at Netflix’s “Green Eggs and Ham” premiere in November 2019. AFP via Getty Images
Diane Keaton, Dexter Keaton and Duke Keaton at Regal L.A. LIVE in May 2019. Getty ImagesDiane died Saturday in California, her family confirmed. A cause of death has not been disclosed.
The Oscar winner’s health allegedly “declined very suddenly” in the last few months.
“It was so unexpected,” Diane’s friend recently told People, “especially for someone with such strength and spirit.”
Diane Keaton attends the “Green Eggs and Ham” Los Angeles premiere in November 2019. Getty Images for NetflixSongwriter Carole Bayer Sager, a longtime pal of Diane’s, revealed that she saw the actress “two or three weeks” before her death and was “stunned” over Diane’s condition.
“She had lost so much weight,” Sager told People, adding that Diane “was very thin.”
Diane Keaton arrives at the 2017 American Film Institute Life Achievement Award Gala. REUTERSDiane never disclosed if she was battling any illness. She previously survived two bouts with skin cancer and an eating disorder.
The “Book Club” star last posted to her Instagram on April 11, sharing a photo with her golden retriever, Reggie. She had not been seen publicly in six months.
