The Prince of Darkness, Ozzy Osbourne, has sadly died at the age of 76, and the hellraising rocker is survived by six children – but only three were with wife Sharon
Rock legend Ozzy Osbourne is survived by six children.
The Prince of Darkness has sadly died at the age of 76, just weeks after his final show with Black Sabbath at Villa Park in Birmingham. His wife Sharon Osbourne and children announced his passing in a joint statement on Tuesday night (July 22).
They said the metal god passed away “surrounded by love”. The statement read: “It is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has passed away this morning.
“He was with his family and surrounded by love. We ask everyone to respect our family privacy at this time. Sharon, Jack, Kelly, Aimee and Louis.”
The statement was from Sharon, whom he wed in 1982, and his kids Jack, Kelly, Aimee and Louis. However, two of Ozzy’s children – Jessica and Elliot – were left out of the family tribute.
Elliot Kingsley
Elliot is a bit of mystery, given he’s decided to live his life away from the spotlight and doesn’t have any public social media accounts. It’s reported Ozzy adopted Elliot after marrying his ex-wife Thelma Riley in 1971.
Ozzy and Thelma met in a Birmingham nightclub called the Rum Runner and welcomed their children Jessica and Louis. Elliot was aged five at the time and is her son from a previous relationship – and in 2023 The Sun reported that he was working as an actor.
Ozzy recalled meeting Thelma, who was working as a waitress in the club, in his 2009 autobiography. “She was beautiful and I wanted to talk to her,” he wrote. “I pulled her on the dance floor.”
“A year or so later, in 1971, we got married in a registry office. I thought it was what you did: get some dough, find a chick, get married, settle down, go to the pub.” However, he admitted it was a “terrible mistake” and that he “put her through hell” – they divorced in 1982.
Jessica Osbourne
Jessica was the first of Ozzy’s children to make him a grandfather. While she didn’t appear on his MTV doc, The Osbournes, it was revealed in an episode that she’d given birth to a baby girl, Isabelle.
She now has three children – Isabelle, Kitty and son Harry. Jessica has worked in costume and wardrobe for films and has had minor roles in Better Call Saul, Manhattan and The Messengers.
She has admitted she doesn’t have a lot of memories of her dad. In the 2011 documentary God Bless Ozzy Osbourne, she said: “I don’t remember being put to bed or having a bath by dad or anything like that. I wouldn’t say he was there for us, no, never on sports day, school trip, parents’ evening. He wasn’t like that, no.”
Louis Osbourne
Louis echoed Jessica’s words in the 2011 documentary. “When he was around and he wasn’t [drunk], he was a great father,” he said. “But that was kind of seldom, really.
“I just have a lot of memories of him being drunk, random s*** like driving cars across fields and crashing them in the middle of the night and stuff like that. It’s not good for family life, really.”
However, Louis said Ozzy was a doting grandad to his children, saying “Dad usually calls on a Sunday afternoon for a catch up and when he comes over to the UK we take the kids down (to his home in Buckinghamshire). Dad is great, very much a doting grandad.”
Louis was there for his dad’s farewell concert with Black Sabbath in July 2025. He admitted it was “hugely emotional” for him.
“I was sobbing at times. It was everything we wanted it to be and more,” he wrote, per BBC. “I had been anxious for months about this as I’ve been worried about my dad’s ability to perform with his Parkinson’s disease.”
He added: “I just wanted it to be a dignified send off for him. But as soon as he started singing we knew he was gonna nail it.”
He has followed in his father’s footsteps somewhat as he’s become a label owner, a DJ and producer. He met wife Louise in 2002, when he was visiting Ozzy, who had just received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Aimee Osbourne
Aimee Osbourne was Ozzy and Sharon’s first child – born in September 1983. She decided to move out of their California home when Ozzy, Sharon, Kelly and Jack started filming The Osbournes.
“It broke my heart when she moved,” Sharon told The Talk in 2018. “She felt too that she didn’t want to grow up on camera. She hated the idea — it was appalling to her. And so she left at 16 and I regret every day that she did.”
Aimee said of her decision not to appear on the show: “I had grown up around having a pretty well-known dad anyway, and … I always really valued my privacy within that family,” she said. “And for me personally, and for who I am, you know, as far as morally and also just to give myself a chance to actually develop into a human being as opposed to just being remembered for being a teenager, it didn’t really line up with what I saw my future as.”
However, Aimee has now followed her dad into music as she’s now the singer of the synth-pop band ARO. Aimee and her brother Jack share a production company, Osbourne Media.
However, Aimee doesn’t have a relationship with her sister Kelly. Appearing on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast in 2021, Kelly revealed: “We don’t talk. We’re just really different. She doesn’t understand me and I don’t understand her.”
Kelly Osbourne
Perhaps the most famous of the Osbourne children is Ozzy and Sharon’s daughter Kelly, who was born a year after Aimee. She featured in the MTV series at the age of just 17 and went on to become a huge TV personality.
She has appeared on reality shows such as The Masked Singer, Dancing with the Stars, Fashion Police, and Project Catwalk. Kelly also had a short-lived music career and released two albums.
She has admitted to struggling with drug addiction which dates back to her early teens. She has checked into rehab before and relapsed after four years of sobriety – but is now clean.
She and Slipknot rocker Sid Wilson (who share a child) got engaged at Ozzy’s farewell gig at the start of the month. Ozzy jokingly interrupted the moment, saying: “F*** off, you’re not marrying my daughter.”
Jack Osbourne
Kelly’s brother Jack also featured on The Osbournes. He and his rockstar dad also appeared on their travel series, Ozzy & Jack’s World Detour, which aired on the History Channel.
Jack has now become a successful TV star in his own right, having presented shows such as Jack Osbourne: Adrenaline Junkie, the BBC’s Saving Planet Earth – he is also a paranormal investigator.
spoken openly about his struggle with drugs and alcohol over the years. By the young age of 14, he was drinking on a regular basis and even started smoking marijuana.
Jack began indulging in a life of heavy partying, and at one point things got so bad that he had to be admitted into a child psychiatric ward – with an addiction to OxyContin – an opioid medication. Jack’s reliance on drugs grew stronger after his mum was diagnosed with colon cancer – which she had surgery for in July 2002.
He was also suffering from depression, and one day he tried to commit suicide after hearing his girlfriend’s ex-boyfriend pick up the phone when he tried to call her. He carried on taking drugs until he took himself to an adolescent psychiatric ward – admitting that he “never wants to feel this way ever again”.
Jack enrolled in a recovery program in Malibu after a 10 day detox – and is now sober. He is now married to Aree Gearhart, and they welcomed their first child together in 2022. Jack also has three children from a previous relationship.
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