Madonna’s brother Christopher Ciccone dead aged 63
Madonna’s younger brother Christopher Ciccone died at the age of 63.
The two worked closely together during the Queen of Pop’s career, but fell out in 2008 over Christopher’s smash book ‘Life with My Sister Madonna’.
Ciccone’s death comes after their stepmother, Joan Clare Ciccone, died on September 24 after a short but aggressive battle with cancer.
Christopher worked throughout his career as a designer, artist and director, organizing concert tours, music videos and films, to commercial, residential interior and furniture design.
“He was an extremely talented man with a wicked sense of humor,” said a friend.
Madonna’s younger brother Christopher Ciccone died at age 63 (the siblings pictured in the 1990s)
Christopher worked as a designer, artist and director throughout his career
Once Madonna’s closest sibling, Christopher began his career as her assistant, dresser, stylist and artistic director.
Madonna and Christopher grew up together in Michigan and learned to dance together.
Christopher then followed Madonna to New York, where she began her long journey to wealth and superstardom.
Christopher was Madonna’s personal assistant and dresser, her interior designer and artistic director of her breathtaking world tours.
But the siblings haven’t been without their problems, with Christopher writing a tell-all book about his relationship with his sister – claiming Guy Ritchie ‘drove up to him’ and admitting the pair ‘never got along’.
He also claimed that Madonna’s romance with the British director was “the death blow to my relationship with her.”
He added that the Material Girl hitmaker was a “middle-class girl who pushes the narrative that she ended up in Times Square with just a pair of ballet shoes and $35 to her name,” adding that this is “pure mythology and how further she progresses’. , the more mythological her life story becomes’.
Like his brothers, he has also struggled with alcohol and drug abuse, with Madonna paying for his stints in rehab.
She dropped him as her tour director in 2003, after which his tell-all memoir, “Life With My Sister Madonna,” was published in 2008.
The two worked closely together during the Queen of Pop’s career, but fell out when he published a bombshell book about her (pictured at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in 1998).
They grew up together in Michigan and learned to dance together (pictured in 1995)
In 2016 he married British hairdresser Ray Thacker.
According to an interview with Evening Standard, his relationship with his sister seemed to improve in 2012.
‘(We are) at a perfect personal level at the moment. As far as I’m concerned, we’re in a good place,” he said.
‘We are in touch, even though I haven’t seen her for a long time. We are brother and sister again. I don’t work for her, and it’s better this way.’
Furthermore, he stated that he was proud of his sister: “I couldn’t be more proud of her.” She is a force to be reckoned with. Does she have Barbra Streisand’s voice? No.
‘Can she dance like Martha Graham? Probably not. But the combination of her abilities made her great and left a tremendous legacy for her, and through her, for me. So yeah, God bless her.”