UPDATE: Madonna shared a tribute to her brother Christopher Ciccone after news of his death was made public.

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Madonna's prolonged household is in mourning.

The pop queen's youthful brother Christopher Ciccone, actually one of her seven siblings, has died. He was 63.

The artist and interior designer died of cancer Oct. 4, his receive told Other folks in an announcement, in conjunction with that he passed away “peacefully” with husband Ray Thacker by his aspect.

E! News has reached out to Christopher's receive for commentary and has now not heard reduction.

As smartly as to his companion and his sister Madonna, Christopher is additionally survived by siblings Martin Ciccone, Paula Ciccone, Melanie Ciccone, Jennifer Ciccone and Mario Ciccone, as well to father Silvio “Tony” Ciccone.

Christopher was preceded in death by oldest brother Anthony Ciccone, who died in 2023 at age 66 of respiratory failure and throat cancer, mother Madonna Ciccone, who passed some distance flung from breast cancer in 1963 at 30, and stepmother Joan Ciccone, who died at age 81 Sept. 24, additionally after a cancer fight.

Madonna, 66, has now not publicly commented on Christopher's death, which comes 16 years after the two had a falling out over his show-all autobiography Lifestyles With My Sister Madonna.

On the time of its 2008 free up, Madonna's receive had told the Linked Press that whereas the “Vogue” singer had now not be taught the e-book but chanced on it “very upsetting” that Christopher “determined to promote a e-book based on his sister.”

“She potentially thinks of it as a desperate strive for attention and money,” Christopher told the Guardian in an interview published in January 2009. “And, one way or the opposite, a betrayal. I mediate of it as a thesaurus—it's diverse solutions of defining of us and myself—and additionally as one other portion of artwork.”

In his memoir, Christopher wrote that he had hoped the e-book would reduction him outline himself and lower free Madonna “at supreme.” Alternatively, he added, “After getting some level of view on our narrative, I one way or the opposite perceive and find that one aspect of my lifestyles will by no way commerce: I was born my mother's son, but I will die my sister's brother.”

Christopher and his siblings possess been raised in Michigan. He labored with Madonna within the earlier years of her occupation as her dresser and a director of her Blond Ambition and Girlie Show excursions within the '90s, spearheaded the interior decoration of her homes and additionally every so continuously lived along with her, the Guardian reported.

Within the assertion to Other folks, his receive said that following Christopher's “symbiotic collaboration” with Madonna, he “persevered to work: as an interior specialist; a designer of footwear; a memoirist—the whole whereas dedicating himself to painting as his vital mode of personal expression.”

In 2012, Christopher shared an optimistic update about his ties with Madonna.

“It's been a bumpy road reduction to a tight relationship between us, and we've gotten there,” he told Hollywood Lifestyles in an on-camera interview, “It's a brother and sister thing now, which is huge, which is the place it wanted to head.”

He persevered, “After working together for 25 years, it was time to kind of fetch out of that world, for me anyway, and then resolve out and work on diverse things. Nonetheless it'll continuously be an element of my lifestyles and I don't remorse any of that stuff.”

Christopher said he felt “huge” about writing his e-book. “It was one thing that I wished to invent for myself,” he said, “aesthetic so I didn't lumber crazy looking to lumber out from under that wide shadow.”