MADONNA’S younger brother Christopher Ciccone has died aged 63.
The two worked closely throughout the star’s career, but had a falling out in 2008 with Christopher’s book “Life with My Sister Madonna”.
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His death comes after their stepmother died on September 24 after a brief battle with cancer.
Christopher worked as a designer, artist and director.
He was once Madonna’s closest sibling and began his career as her assistant, dresser, stylist and artistic director.
They grew up together in Michigan and learned dance together.
Christopher then followed the star to New York, where she started her journey to fame.
But when Christopher wrote up his book about his relationship with his sister, it caused a wedge between the pair.
The brother called the Material Girl hitmaker “a middle-class girl who propagates the story that she landed in Times Square with just a pair of ballet shoes and $35 to her name”.
But he claimed this was “pure mythology and the further she progresses, the more mythological her life story becomes.”
Like Christopher’s brothers, he too struggled with alcohol and drug abuse – and Madonna even paid for some of his rehab.
In 2003 she dropped him as her tour director.
By 2016, he married British hairdresser Ray Thacker.
And in 2012 his relationship with his performer sister appeared to be on the mend.
He told the Evening Standard at the time: “[We are] on a perfectly personable level right now. 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.”
Christopher also expressed pride for his sister, differing to his 2008 book.
He gushed: “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 has made her great, and left a huge legacy for her, and through her, for me. So yeah, God bless her.”
One friend said Christopher was “an extremely talented man with a wicked sense of humor”.
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