Madonna‘s youthful brother, Christopher Ciccone, has died on the age of 63.
Christopher handed away after a battle with most cancers on Friday (Oct. 4) in Michigan, his consultant confirmed to TMZ.
The Queen of Pop has confronted many deaths in her household as of late. Christopher’s passing arrives lower than two weeks after the dying of Madonna’s stepmother, Joan Clare Ciccone, who additionally had most cancers. The pop famous person’s oldest brother, Anthony Ciccone, additionally handed away in February 2023 of respiratory failure and throat most cancers. He was 66.
Madonna hadn’t publicly commented on Christopher’s passing at press time. Billboard has reached out to her reps for remark.
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Christopher — certainly one of Madonna’s seven siblings — started his leisure profession as certainly one of his sister’s backup dancers earlier than shifting on to direct music movies for such stars as Dolly Parton and Tony Bennett. He additionally served because the artwork director for Madonna’s 1990 Blond Ambition World Tour and was the tour director for her 1993 The Girlie Present.
Madonna and Christopher, who was additionally an artist and inside designer, had a falling out that was documented in his 2008 e book, Life With My Sister Madonna, which reached No. 2 on the New York Instances best-seller checklist. He claimed that the singer outed him in a 1991 interview with The Advocate, saying, “My brother Christopher’s homosexual, and he and I’ve at all times been the closest members of my household.”
Christopher later addressed his relationship with Madonna in a 2012 interview with The Night Commonplace. “So far as I’m involved, we’re good. We’re in touch with one another, though I haven’t seen her for a very long time. We’re again to being a brother and sister. I don’t work for her, and it’s higher this manner,” he stated on the time.
“I couldn’t be extra happy with her. She is a drive to be reckoned with. Does she have Barbra Streisand’s voice? No,” Christopher added about his sister. “Can she dance like Martha Graham? In all probability not. However the mixture of her skills has made her nice, and left an enormous legacy for her, and thru her, for me. So yeah, God bless her.”
Christopher married British hairdresser Ray Thacker in 2016.
