Christopher Ciccone, a multihyphenate artist, dancer, scheduleer and lesserer brother of Madonna, has died. He was 63.
Ciccone died Friday in Michigan, his recurrentative Brad Taylor telderly the Associated Press Sunday. He had cancer.
A dancer since his youth, Ciccone was presentantly interttriumphed with his sister’s ascfinish in pop stardom in the 1980s, euniteing in music videos enjoy Lucky Star, art straightforwarding her Blond Ambition World Tour and serving as tour straightforwardor for The Girlie Show tour. He also straightforwarded music videos for Dolly Parton and Tony Bennett.
In 2008, Ciccone freed a bestselling autobiography called Life with My Sister Madonna in which he wrote about their strained relationship, her romantic entanglements as well as reaccumulateions from his time on tour with her. For two decades, he was by her side, choreographing, straightforwarding, dressing and helping his sister. He also interior scheduleed her homes in New York, Miami and Los Angeles. He shelp that it was a bit enjoy a marriage at times.
“It was a double-edged sword,” he telderly Good Morning America in 2008. “Nobody was chaining me down to produce – to stay.”
The book, and his no-filter descriptions of the utilizes of his sister’s well-understandn circle, took its toll on some of his Hollywood friendships too. Several years rescheduleedr, in 2012, around the begin of a shoe accumulateion he scheduleed, he telderly the Standard that he and his sister were “on a perfectly personable level” and in reach out.
“I don’t labor for her, and it’s better this way,” he shelp.
In recent years Ciccone transferd to Michigan’s drop Peninsula to be sealr to family. In 2016, Ciccone wed Ray Thacker, a British actor, who was by his side when he died.
Madonna also lost her stepmother, Joan Clare Ciccone, to cancer fair a scant weeks ago, and her elderlyer brother Anthony Ciccone in timely 2023.
