Christopher Ciccone, the previous entertainer and dancer who was additionally Madonna’s youthful brother, has died, his consultant Brad Taylor confirmed to CBS Information. He was 63 years previous.
Taylor stated in a press release that he died of most cancers on October 4, surrounded by his husband, Ray Thacker.
Born on November 22, 1960 in Pontiac, Michigan, Ciccone was an artist, inside decorator and designer, who started his profession as a dancer. He joined Le Group de La Palace Royale in Ottawa in 1980 earlier than transferring to New York two years later to assist his older sister’s music profession as a backup dancer.
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As Madonna’s profession grew, Ciccone grew to become extra concerned – serving as inventive director on her sister’s Blonde Ambition world tour in 1990 and as tour supervisor for her The Girlie Present in 1993. He additionally directed music movies for mega stars Dolly Parton and Tony Bennett within the Nineties.
His position expanded outdoors of music when Ciccone took on the position of inside designer inside properties owned and operated by his sister in New York, Miami, and Los Angeles.
In 2012, Ciccone launched his personal shoe line, The Ciccone Assortment, at London Vogue Week.
He stated CBS News at the time His purpose is to make the model “accessible” and never too costly.
“The beauty of shoemaking is that everybody can have a pair of sneakers. Once you do artwork, there’s just one,” Ciccone stated.
Ciccone, who was overtly homosexual, claimed that his sister outed him throughout her 1991 interview with Lawyer.
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Ciccone launched a tell-all autobiography referred to as “Life With My Sister Madonna,” which led to reviews that the 2 had damaged up, however Ciccone advised CBS Information in 2012 that he was glad he wrote the ebook.
“I do not remorse any of it,” he stated. “I feel that is why I did this. It gave folks an opportunity to think about me as a artistic particular person, as an artist, and never simply as Madonna’s brother, which is a tag I am going to put on perpetually,” Ciccone stated in 2012. “However I hope that in some unspecified time in the future it can Christopher Ciccone Firstly it is nice… I am utterly joyful being who I’m.”
The 2 ultimately reconciled.
“Our relationship is nice to me,” he advised CBS Information.
Ciccone and Thacker – a British-born actor – married in 2016.
Ciccone’s demise comes lower than two weeks after his stepmother and Madonna’s stepmother, Joan Clare Ciccone, died of most cancers. His older brother Anthony died in 2023.
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