The Cassidy household, which included ’70s teen icons David Cassidy and Shaun Cassidy, in addition to actor Jack Cassidy and Partridge Householdstar Shirley Jones, was sophisticated. And, as Shaun defined in a latest interview with PEOPLE, his emotions about his tumultuous relationship together with his late father Jack Cassidy, who handed away in an 1976 condo fireplace when he was simply 49 years outdated, have continued after the older Cassidy’s dying. Shaun was nonetheless younger when his father died and regardless of following in his father’s footsteps to a profession in leisure, the 2 didn’t at all times see eye to eye. Actually, Shaun went so far as to name his father a little bit of a “phony.”