Madonna’s younger brother, Christopher Ciccone, died at the age of 63.
The two worked closely throughout the Queen of Pop’s career, but had a falling out in 2008 over Christopher’s explosive book ‘Life with My Sister Madonna’.
Ciccone’s death comes after her stepmother, Joan Clare Ciccone, died on September 24 after a brief but aggressive battle with cancer.
Christopher worked as a designer, artist and director throughout his career organizing concert tours, music videos and films, to commercial and residential furniture and interior 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 (siblings pictured in the 1990s)
Christopher worked as a designer, artist and director throughout his career.
Once Madonna’s closest brother, 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 stardom.
Christopher has been Madonna’s personal assistant and dresser, her interior decorator and artistic director of her spectacular world tours.
But the siblings have not been without their difficulties, and Christopher wrote a tell-all book about his relationship with his sister, where he claimed Guy Ritchie “bullied” him and admitted the pair “never got along.”
He also claimed that Madonna’s affair with the British director was “the death knell for my relationship with her.”
He added that the Material Girl hitmaker was “a middle-class girl who spreads the story that she landed in Times Square with only a pair of ballet slippers and $35 to her name,” adding that it’s “pure mythology and “The further he goes, the more mythological his life story becomes.”
Like his brothers, he has also struggled with alcohol and drug abuse, and Madonna paid for his stints in rehab.
She left him as her tour manager in 2003, then her tell-all memoir, ‘Life With My Sister Madonna,’ was published in 2008.
The two worked closely throughout the Queen of Pop’s career, but had a falling out when he published an explosive book about her (pictured at Vanity Fair’s 1998 Oscar party).
They grew up together in Michigan and learned to dance together (pictured in 1995).
In 2016 she married British hairdresser Ray Thacker.
His relationship with his sister appeared to improve in 2012, according to an interview with the Evening Standard.
‘(We’re) at a perfectly nice level right now. As far as I’m concerned, we’re fine,” he said.
‘We are in contact, although I haven’t seen her in a long time. We are brother and sister again. I don’t work for her and it’s better that way.
He also expressed his pride in his sister: ‘I couldn’t be more proud of her. She is a force to be reckoned with. Does she have the voice of Barbra Streisand? No.
‘Can he dance like Martha Graham? Probably not. But the combination of her skills has made her great and left a huge legacy for her and, through her, for me. So yeah, God bless her.”