Madonna's brother Christopher Ciccone dies after battle with cancer
Madonna's brother Christopher Ciccone, an artist and interior designer, died Friday at 63 after a battle with late-stage cancer.
Madonna's brother Christopher Ciccone, an artist and interior designer, died Friday at 63 after a battle with late-stage cancer.
Ciccone died peacefully and surrounded by family, his representative confirmed.
His older sister Madonna, 66, mourned him in a lengthy tribute posted to Instagram on Sunday in which she described him as "the closest human to me for so long."
"We took each other's hands and we danced through the madness of our childhood," the pop legend wrote in her caption. "In fact dance was a kind of superglue that held us together. Discovering Dance in our small Midwestern town saved me and then my brother came along, and it saved him too."
She went on to write that their dance teacher "created a safe space" for Ciccone to be openly gay at a time when his sexual orientation was socially taboo.
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