Madonna’s Younger Brother Christopher Ciccone Dies at 63
Madonna‘s more youthful brother, Christopher Ciccone, has died on the month of 63.
Christopher gave up the ghost next a fight with most cancers on Friday (Oct. 4) in Michigan, his consultant showed to TMZ.
The Queen of Pop has confronted many deaths in her nation these days. Christopher’s passing arrives lower than two weeks after the death of Madonna’s stepmother, Joan Clare Ciccone, who additionally had most cancers. The pop famous person’s oldest brother, Anthony Ciccone, additionally passed away in February 2023 of respiration failure and throat most cancers. He was once 66.
Madonna hadn’t publicly commented on Christopher’s passing at press moment. Billboard has reached out to her reps for remark.
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Christopher — one among Madonna’s seven siblings — started his leisure occupation as one among his sister’s supplementary dancers sooner than shifting directly to direct tune movies for such stars as Dolly Parton and Tony Bennett. He additionally served because the artwork director for Madonna’s 1990 Blond Ambition Global Excursion and was once the excursion director for her 1993 The Girlie Display.
Madonna and Christopher, who was once additionally an artist and inside dressmaker, had a falling out that was once documented in his 2008 keep, Future With My Sister Madonna, which reached Incorrect. 2 at the Untouched York Occasions best-seller record. He claimed that the singer outed him in a 1991 interview with The Advocate, pronouncing, “My brother Christopher’s gay, and he and I have always been the closest members of my family.”
Christopher then addressed his dating with Madonna in a 2012 interview with The Evening Standard. “As far as I’m concerned, we’re good. We are in contact with each other, although I haven’t seen her for a long time. We’re back to being a brother and sister. I don’t work for her, and it’s better this way,” he stated on the moment.
“I couldn’t be more proud of her. She is a force to be reckoned with. Does she have Barbra Streisand’s voice? No,” Christopher added about his sister. “Can she dance like Martha Graham? Probably not. But the combination of her abilities has made her great, and left a huge legacy for her, and through her, for me. So yeah, God bless her.”
Christopher married British hairdresser Ray Thacker in 2016.