In an Instagram Story on February 27, Madonna celebrated all the things her late brother, Anthony Ciccone, introduced to her as a child. With Ciccone her senior by two years, Madge penned, on a black-and-white photo of them and several smiling friends, that he “planted many important seeds” in her life. “Thank you for blowing my mind as a young girl,” she wrote, rattling off a litany of artists and philosophical influences, such as Miles Davis, Buddhism, Charles Bukowski, and Jack Kerouac, that Ciccone opened her eyes to. According to the singer, her late brother also helped nurture her “expansive” and “outside the box” thinking.
Madonna and Ciccone were seemingly making amends with one another toward the end of his life. The “Express Yourself” singer was reportedly paying his rehab facility bills in Michigan up until his death. Reportedly, Ciccone — who has been with the rehab center for a while — removed his feeding and breathing tubes two days before he died. Having lost a great deal of weight throughout his treatment, Ciccone reportedly removed them knowing it would result in his death.
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