The younger son of the Shah of Iran, Prince Alireza Pahlavi, has killed himself in the US after a long battle with depression, his family says.
Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi said family and friends had been plunged into "great sorrow" at news of the death.
"It is with immense grief that we would like to inform our compatriots of the passing away of Prince Alireza Pahlavi," family members said.
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was ousted in Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution.
Alireza Pahlavi was 44.
"Like millions of young Iranians, he too was deeply disturbed by all the ills fallen upon his beloved homeland, as well as carrying the burden of losing a father and a sister in his young life," the statement read.
Leila Pahlavi, the late shah's daughter, died in 2001 in a London hotel room at age 31. Shah Mohamed Reza Pahlavi died in Egyptian exile in 1980.
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