Jack White announces brother Eddie Gillis has died

Jack White announced that his older brother, Edward “Eddie” Gillis, died on October 24, 2026, after a battle with cancer. White shared the news in an Instagram post, remembering Gillis as a caring, funny and generous person. The reports of Gillis’s death and life details stem from White’s tribute. White said Gillis managed Third Man Pressing, the Detroit vinyl plant associated with White’s Third Man Records, for 10 years. He wrote that Gillis oversaw the pressing of hundreds of thousands of records for other artists. White also said his brother made small sculptures and flowers from vinyl scraps at the plant. Before working in record production, Gillis was a pastry chef. White said he ran kitchens and bake shops for the Ritz-Carlton and Beaumont Hospital. White described his brother as having pursued several kinds of work during his life. White also recalled Gillis’s role in their early musical lives. As the siblings grew up, Gillis played guitar while White played drums, White wrote. The brothers sometimes played music together later, including a performance for the Detroit Tigers during spring training in Florida with their band, which included bassist Dominic Davis. White...