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Christopher Ciccone, artist and Madonna’s brother, dies at age 63

Dancer and designer who wrote autobiography about strained relationship with sister died of cancer in Michigan

Christopher Ciccone, a multihyphenate artist, dancer, designer and younger brother of Madonna, has died aged 63. In 2008, Ciccone released a bestselling autobiography called Life with My Sister Madonna in which he wrote about their strained relationship, her romantic entanglements as well as recollections from his time on tour with her. Several years later, in 2012, around the launch of a shoe collection he designed, he told the Standard that he and his sister were “on a perfectly personable level” and in contact.

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