Christopher Ciccone, a multihyphenate artist, dancer, designer and youthful brother of Madonna, has died. He was 63.
Ciccone died Friday in Michigan, his consultant Brad Taylor informed The Associated Press Sunday. He had most cancers.
A dancer since his youth, Ciccone was deeply intertwined along with his sister’s rise in pop stardom within the Nineteen Eighties, showing in music movies like “Lucky Star,” artwork directing her Blond Ambition World Tour and serving as tour director for The Girlie Show tour. He additionally directed music movies for Dolly Parton and Tony Bennett.
In 2008, Ciccone launched a bestselling autobiography known as “Life with My Sister Madonna” during which he wrote about their strained relationship, her romantic entanglements in addition to recollections from his time on tour together with her. For twenty years, he was by her facet, choreographing, directing, dressing and serving to his sister. He additionally inside designed her properties in New York, Miami and Los Angeles. He mentioned that it was a bit like a wedding at instances.
“It was a double-edged sword,” he informed Good Morning America in 2008. “Nobody was chaining me down to make — to stay.”
The ebook, and his no-filter descriptions of the exploits of his sister’s well-known circle, took its toll on a few of his Hollywood friendships too. Several years later, in 2012, across the launch of a shoe assortment he designed, he informed The Standard that he and his sister have been “on a perfectly personable level” and involved.
“I don’t work for her, and it’s better this way,” he mentioned.
In current years Ciccone relocated to Michigan’s Lower Peninsula to be nearer to household. In 2016, Ciccone married Ray Thacker, a British actor, who was by his facet when he died.
Madonna additionally misplaced her stepmother, Joan Clare Ciccone, to most cancers just some weeks in the past, and her older brother Anthony Ciccone in early 2023.
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