The Carter household is all too accustomed to tragedy.
Throughout their 25-year marriage, Jane and Robert ‘Bob’ Carter welcomed 5 youngsters: Nick Carter, Bobbie Jean Carter, Leslie Carter and twins Aaron Carter and Angel Carter.
Nick first stepped into the highlight in 1993 when he made his debut with the Backstreet Boys at simply 13 years outdated. Because the boy band’s recognition grew, so did the eye surrounding Nick and his household.
By the years, a few of his siblings adopted in his footsteps, most notably his youthful brother Aaron together with his album Aaron’s Occasion (Come Get It) in 2000. The siblings additionally shared the display collectively within the mid-2000s with Home of Carters, which documented their at-times contentious relationships with each other.
Extra lately, Nick and his youthful sister Angel participated within the two-part documentary The Carters: Hurts to Love You, which premiered on April 15 and was directed by Soleil Moon Frye.
The pair spoke candidly about their household’s lengthy historical past of habit and psychological well being struggles, which finally led to the deaths of their three siblings: Leslie in 2012, Aaron in 2022 and Bobbie Jean in 2023.
Across the launch of the documentary, Nick was accused of sexual assault by a fourth girl in a lawsuit. He has denied all the allegations in opposition to him.
Here is all the things to learn about the place the Carter household is now, together with how Nick and Angel are dealing with the lack of their siblings.
Jane and Robert ‘Bob’ Carter
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Jane and Bob Carter married in Could 1979 and welcomed 5 youngsters collectively throughout their relationship. They spent the early years of their marriage residing in New York, the place they owned a bar referred to as the Yankee Insurgent in Westfield, earlier than ultimately transferring to Florida, the place their youngsters primarily grew up.
Through the years, the Carter siblings have talked about their difficult relationship with their mother and father. Jane and Bob formally divorced in 2004; round that very same time, Aaron accused his mom, who was additionally his supervisor on the time, of stealing $100,000 from him, and thought of submitting for authorized emancipation. She denied the cost and so they settled the dispute a month later.
Jane made headlines later that 12 months when she was arrested and charged with battery for allegedly hitting Bob’s girlfriend (and future spouse) Ginger Elrod. Elrod didn’t pursue the costs, however Bob informed The Miami Herald, “restraining orders are in place.”
In Could 2017, Nick revealed on X that his father Bob died in Florida at age 65.
“I’m heartbroken to share the information that our father, Robert, handed away final night time,” he wrote on the time. “Whereas we be taught extra about the reason for demise, and start the grieving course of, we ask that our privateness be revered at this tough time.”
Aaron additionally reacted to the information on-line, writing, “My coronary heart is Utterly shattered I’m in shock and I cherished my dad a lot. #RIP daddy I Love You.”
Nick Carter
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Born on Jan. 28, 1980, in Jamestown, N.Y., Nick is the eldest of the Carter siblings. When he was 4, the household moved to Ruskin, Fla., the place the remainder of his siblings have been born and raised. After getting concerned with singing and dancing at a younger age, Nick turned a member of the Backstreet Boys within the early ‘90s.
Because the boy band rose to fame, Nick reportedly handled a turbulent house life. In his 2013 memoir Going through the Music and Dwelling to Speak About It, Nick claimed that his relationship together with his household was “poisonous.” Throughout an interview with Dr. Phil, he expanded on his rocky house life, noting that issues together with his members of the family have been all the time “up and down” all through his childhood.
He particularly famous that as his success within the music trade made him the monetary supplier for his household, he turned like a father “in loads of methods.” “I like my household. However there comes a degree if you actually should ask your self in case you are serving to or hurting them,” he added.
Along with having a strained relationship together with his mother and father, Nick additionally had a tough relationship together with his youthful brother Aaron, who made many appearances with the Backstreet Boys as he was beginning out his music profession.
In September 2019, Nick revealed that he and his sister Angel had filed a restraining order in opposition to their brother, Aaron, claiming that he had threatened to kill Nick’s “pregnant spouse and unborn little one,” referencing his companion Lauren Kitt Carter.
Aaron later responded on X, saying that he and Nick have been “achieved for all times,” noting that he hadn’t seen him in 4 years and didn’t “intend to.”
Nick and Lauren, who’ve been married since 2014, share three youngsters: son Odin and daughters Saoirse and Pearl.
Through the years, Nick has handled varied authorized points. Notably, he has confronted accusations of sexual assault from 4 girls, three of whom appeared within the ID doc Fallen Idols: Nick and Aaron Carter, which premiered in Could 2024.
Practically a 12 months after the doc was launched, one other girl, Laura Penly, accused Nick of sexual assault. Her lawsuit, filed in April 2025, alleges that she contracted STDs from the singer that led to cervical most cancers. Nick has denied all accusations.
Aaron Carter
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Aaron was born on Dec. 7, 1987, alongside his twin sister Angel. Like his older brother, he started acting at a really younger age and ultimately launched his self-titled debut album in 1997 when he was 9.
Aaron gained widespread consideration for his second album, Aaron’s Occasion (Come Get It), which solidified him as a teen pop star within the early 2000s, with appearances on Disney Channel’s Lizzie McGuire and Nickelodeon’s All That.
Nevertheless, within the late 2000s, Aaron confronted a number of authorized points. In 2008, he was arrested for marijuana possession, and some years later, in 2011, he entered rehab for “emotional and religious points he was coping with,” his supervisor, Johnny Wright, stated on the time.
Aaron’s authorized woes continued within the early 2010s because the Carter household handled varied tragedies, together with the deaths of Leslie and Bob. In 2013, Aaron filed for chapter and in 2017, he was arrested for an alleged DUI and drug possession.
That very same 12 months, he entered rehab once more and later opened up about his psychological well being struggles throughout an look on The Docs, noting that his official analysis was “a number of persona dysfunction, schizophrenia and acute anxiousness,” including that he was “manic depressive.”
Amid his private struggles, Aaron additionally had an on-and-off-again relationship with Melanie Martin, to whom he was engaged. They went Instagram official in January 2020 and dated on and off within the years that adopted earlier than formally ending issues in February 2022. In the course of the course of their relationship, additionally they welcomed a toddler collectively, a son named Prince, born in November 2021.
In November 2022, Aaron was discovered useless in his bathtub at his Lancaster, Calif., house. His reason behind demise was later attributed to drowning after inhaling difluoroethane and taking alprazolam, the generic type of brand-name Xanax, in line with the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner.
After information of his demise turned public, Nick was one of many first to share a press release. “My coronary heart has been damaged at the moment,” he wrote on Instagram. “Though my brother and I’ve had a sophisticated relationship, my love for him has by no means ever pale. I’ve all the time held onto the hope that he would by some means, sometime wish to stroll a wholesome path and ultimately discover the assistance that he so desperately wanted.”
Aaron’s twin sister Angel additionally issued a press release by way of social media, writing, “To my twin… I cherished you past measure. You’ll be missed dearly. My humorous, candy Aaron, I’ve so many reminiscences of you … and I promise to cherish them. I do know you are at peace now. I’ll carry you with me till the day I die and get to see you once more. 💔.”
In April 2025, Angel revealed to PEOPLE that she spoke to Aaron three days earlier than his demise after she claimed to see him “huffing duster cans” on Instagram Stay.
She recalled the tense telephone dialog, saying, “I used to be indignant that he had informed me that I used to be the explanation why he was doing medication and acquired off the telephone. And that was the final time I talked to him.”
Bobbie Jean Carter
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Bobbie Jean was the second-eldest Carter sibling, born on Jan. 12, 1982. She wasn’t within the highlight as a lot as her siblings, although she did seem on the Carter household’s actuality present Home of Carters in 2006.
Like her siblings, Bobbie Jean handled varied authorized woes. In June 2023, she was arrested and charged with one depend of retail theft and possession of fentanyl after reportedly attempting to steal stickers and markers from a Passion Foyer.
Bobbie Jean was then positioned in custody and held in jail from late September to early November. On Dec. 23, 2023, she was discovered unresponsive on her toilet ground and was rushed to Tampa’s St. Joseph’s Hospital in cardiac arrest.
Bobbie Jean was later pronounced useless at age 41. In response to an preliminary case abstract report launched by the Hillsborough County Medical Examiner Division and obtained by PEOPLE, her reason behind demise was listed as “intoxication by the mixed results of fentanyl and methamphetamine.”
Following Bobbie Jean’s demise, Nick shared an emotional assertion on Instagram. “It could take a lifetime to totally course of the loss my household has endured through the years — most lately, with the sudden passing of our sister Bobbie Jean,” he wrote. “I’m fully heartbroken.”
Jane additionally reacted to the information, telling TMZ, “I’m in shock from studying of the sudden demise of my daughter, Bobbie Jean, and I’ll want time to course of the horrible actuality of this occurring for the third time,” referring to the deaths of Bobbie Jean, Aaron and Leslie.
Within the Paramount+ documentary The Carters: Hurts to Love You, Angel recalled attempting to reconnect with Bobbie Jean following Aaron’s demise, however she rapidly realized that her sister “didn’t need assist” along with her habit points.
“She was too far gone,” Angel claimed. “She really informed me, ‘If I can discover a method to do medication, I’ll.’ ”
Leslie Carter
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Leslie was born third, on June 6, 1986. Like brothers Nick and Aaron, Leslie experimented with music, signing a file cope with DreamWorks Information in 1999. Her single “Like Wow!” appeared on the Shrek soundtrack and her debut album of the identical title was set to launch in 2001, nevertheless, the studio later canceled the discharge.
In late 2006, Leslie shaped the band The Different Half, which break up in 2009. Throughout that point she married Mike Ashton in September 2008, and so they ultimately moved to Toronto, Ontario, the place she gave delivery to a daughter in 2011.
All through her profession, Leslie handled despair and struggled with the household’s fame. “She was all the time completely happy for her brothers, don’t get me mistaken,” a supply beforehand informed PEOPLE. “However it was robust for her.”
In February 2012, Leslie died at age 25 of an obvious overdose of prescription remedy. Aaron later revealed that he had provided to pay for her substance abuse therapy simply weeks earlier than her demise.
“I wasn’t actually making that a lot cash. Happily, I had simply hit my bonus. I acquired $10,000 the week earlier than Leslie died, and I really had reached out to her two weeks earlier than that and stated, ‘I’ll get you the cash to go to rehab,’ ” he beforehand informed Oprah Winfrey. “She wished it.”
Nick didn’t attend Leslie’s funeral, telling E! Information. “I wished to be at my sister’s funeral, however my household has all the time had a sophisticated dynamic.”
Angel Carter
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Angel is the dual sister of Aaron, born on Dec. 7, 1987. Although she appeared on the 2006 sequence Home of Carters, she isn’t within the leisure trade like her siblings.
Following the deaths of Aaron, Leslie and Bobbie Jean, Angel has spoken candidly about psychological well being consciousness and is an envoy for the Children Psychological Well being Basis.
“I would like Aaron’s legacy to be greater than the previous few years of his life,” Angel informed E! Information of her twin brother’s demise. “Aaron did have a platform and a love for his followers. And now I wish to see the legacy of Aaron become one thing constructive, which is to proceed to boost consciousness, to assist youngsters, to save lots of lives.”
She added that after Aaron died, “a fireplace lit within me to wish to proceed the dialog about psychological well being, and to interrupt this stigma that surrounds it.”
Angel recalled that, after filming their actuality sequence, Nick sat the household down in the lounge and requested, “Who needs to go to remedy? I’ll pay so that you can go to remedy.” She famous she was the one one who took him up on the provide and has “been in remedy ever since then.”
Angel married Corey Conrad in February 2014 and the couple now share a daughter named Harper Noelle Conrad.
Following Aaron’s demise, Angel saved his ashes in her house earlier than laying him to relaxation at Forest Garden in August 2023.
“To lose a twin, it is an out-of-body expertise. He is part of me. And it was like when he died, I had this sense of, ‘I’ve acquired to get him in my home. I’ve acquired to convey him house and shield him,’ ” she informed PEOPLE.