Artist, inside designer and Madonna‘s brother, Christopher Ciccone, died Friday, Oct. 4, on the age of 63, The Hollywood Reporter has discovered. Ciccone had been battling most cancers and died “peacefully,” in line with a household assertion despatched to THR from Ciccone’s rep, which added that he died “surrounded by” his husband Ray Thacker and “family members.
” Ciccone, who obtained his begin as a dancer and choreographer, used his abilities to assist Madonna’s rising profession, turning into dresser and inventive advisor to his famous person sister. He additionally directed music vidoes and excursions, together with Madonna’s The Girlie Present world tour in 1993. And he was the artwork director for her 1990 Blond Ambition world tour.
He went on to work as an inside, footwear and furnishings designer and artist. He additionally wrote the 2008 best-selling e book Life With My Sister Madonna , which led to experiences that the siblings had had a falling out. Ciccone claimed Madonna outed him in a 1991 interview with The Advocate , the place she recognized him as “homosexual,” and he accused Madonna’s ex-husband Man Ritchie of being homophobic.
And he stated the “turning level” within the siblings’ relationship was when she introduced cameras to their mom’s grave for her documentary Fact or Dare . “I stored it inside however I believed to myself, ‘OK, there are not any boundaries now.’ You recognize, my mom’s now grow to be a facet .