Madonna’s brother Christopher Ciccone has died after a battle with cancer, his publicist confirmed to DailyMail.com.
Ciccone, 63, passed away peacefully on October 4 surrounded by her husband Ray Thacker and loved ones at their home in Michigan.
“Christopher’s beloved wife was faithfully by his side during the final stages of the cancer that would ultimately take his life,” his rep said.
He is survived by his sister Queen of Pop and his brothers Martin, Paula, Melanie, Jennifer and Mario, as well as his father and countless nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.
“He was an extremely talented man with a wicked sense of humor,” said a friend.
Madonna’s brother Christopher Ciccone died after a battle with cancer.
Ciccone, 63, passed away peacefully on October 4 surrounded by her husband Ray Thacker and loved ones at their home in Michigan.
Christopher and his sister worked closely throughout their career, but had a falling out in 2008 over Christopher’s explosive book ‘Life with My Sister Madonna’.
His death comes after his 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.
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.
Christopher and his sister worked closely throughout their career, but had a falling out in 2008 over Christopher’s explosive book ‘Life with My Sister Madonna’.
In recent years, Christopher moved to Michigan to be near his family, many of whom are involved in his father’s wine business, Ciccone Vineyards.
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.
In 2016, she married British-born Thacker. The two were frequently separated by circumstance, as Thacker was confined to England during the pandemic years, but was ultimately at her husband’s side as he battled cancer.
His relationship with his sister appeared to improve in 2012, according to an interview with the Evening Standard.
Madonna is seen going to her first communion in 1967 with her siblings Marty, Melanie and Christopher in front.
She is survived by her husband, her sister Reina del Pop and her siblings Martin, Paula, Melanie, Jennifer and Mario, as well as her father.
Madonna, center, in 1970 with, from left, sister Paula, uncle Chris, brothers Christopher and Marty, sister Melanie, stepmother Joan and father Silvio.
‘(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.”
In recent years, Christopher moved to the upper part of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula to work and be closer to his family, many of whom are involved in his father’s wine business, Ciccone Vineyards, in Sutton’s Bay, near of Traverse City.