Madonna's brother, Christopher Ciccone, dies from cancer aged 63 in Michigan

Madonna is mourning the loss of her younger sibling, Christopher Ciccone, after he passed away in Michigan on Friday after battling cancer, his representative has confirmed to TMZ.

Christopher was 63-years-old.

He and Madonna, 66, were very close in the early days of her career, and she hired him as one of her backing dancers.

In an Instagram post the singer spoke about here bond with her brother after his passing.

“My brother Christopher is gone,” she says.

“He was the closest human to me for so long. Its hard to explain our bond.”

Ciccone was for a long time Madonna’s show designer and backstage dresser and was the art director for her Blonde Ambition world tour and tour director for The Girlie Show.

Christopher - who also directed videos for Tony Bennett and Dolly Parton, as well as working as an interior designer - fell out with his superstar sibling when he released his 2008 best-selling book Life With My Sister Madonna.

The two eventually reconciled, and in 2012, Christopher released his footwear line.

“The last few years have not been easy,” Madonna wrote in her post.

“When my brother got sick. We found our way back to each other.

“I did my best to keep him alive as long as possible. He was in so much pain towards the end.

“There will never be anyone like him. I know he’s dancing somewhere.”

The tragic news comes just a few weeks after Madonna’s stepmother, Joan Ciccone, died from a “very aggressive cancer”.

The 81-year-old - who was married to the singer’s Silvio Ciccone - passed away “peacefully” on 24 September after a brief bout of ill health and a memorial posted online revealed her family’s sadness over the loss.

It read: “Joan Clare Ciccone passed away peacefully early in the morning of September 24th, 2024, after a brief encounter with a very aggressive cancer. She will be missed by her family and friends whose lives she enriched with her enthusiasm, joy and love”.

Joan married Silvio in 1966 following the death of his first wife - Madonna’s mother who shared the same name as the singer - and took on his six kids. They had three children of their own, including a son who died shortly after birth.

The obituary added: “She took special joy in her grandkids later in life and with the grim cancer prognosis lamented that she was sad she would not see them marry and have kids of their own.”

Madonna’s mother died in 1963 after a battle with breast cancer when the pop star was five years old.