Madonna has been rocked by another tragedy as her brother Christopher Ciccone has died at the age of 63. Christopher worked closely with his famous sister over the years, organizing concert tours, music videos, film and commerical appearances. The tragedy comes just days after the death of their stepmother, Joan Ciccone, who passed away from cancer on September 24.
Madonna makes dramatic entrance to Milan Fashion Week with black veil Madonna drops biopic bombshell as she teases huge change with cryptic snap Having grown up with Madonna in Michigan, Christopher started out as her assistant, stylist and artistic director before becoming a residential interior and furniture designer. "He was an extremely talented man with a wicked sense of humor," one friend told Mail Online. The siblings had been close but fell out in 2008 due to Christopher's bombshell book 'Life with My Sister Madonna.
' The pop sensation dropped him as her tour director in 2003, with his tell-all memoir being published five years later, in which he claimed his sister was "a middle-class girl who propagates the story that she landed in Times Square with just a pair of ballet shoes and $35 to her name." Christopher said Madonna's marriage to director Guy Ritchie was the "death knell for my relationship with her." "(We are) on a perfectly personable level right now.
As far as I’m concerned, we’re good,' Christopher told the Evening Standard in 2012. "We are in contact with each other, although I haven’t se.