Madonna's brother Christopher Ciccone's cause of death revealed

Madonna's member Christopher Ciccone died pursuing a conflict with cancer, his publicist confirmed to DailyMail.com.

Ciccone, 63, passed away peacefully connected October 4 surrounded by his hubby Ray Thacker and their loved ones astatine his location successful Michigan.

'Christopher’s loving spouse was faithfully by his broadside during the last stages of the crab that would yet extremity his life,' his typical said.

He is survived by his Queen of Pop sister and their siblings Martin, Paula, Melanie, Jennifer and Mario arsenic good arsenic their begetter and countless nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends.

'He was an highly talented antheral with a wicked consciousness of humor,' 1 person said. 

Christopher and his sister worked intimately passim her career, but had a falling out in 2008 with Christopher's bombshell book 'Life with My Sister Madonna.'

His decease comes aft their stepmother, Joan Clare Ciccone, died connected September 24 aft a little but assertive conflict with cancer.

Christopher worked arsenic a designer, creator and manager passim his vocation organizing concert tours, euphony videos, and film, to commercial, residential interior and furnishings design. 

Once Madonna's closest sibling, Christopher began his vocation arsenic her assistant, dresser, stylist and creator director.

Madonna and Christopher grew up unneurotic successful Michigan and learned to creation together.

Then Christopher followed Madonna to New York, wherever she began her agelong travel to wealthiness and superstardom.

Christopher has been Madonna’s idiosyncratic adjunct and dresser, her interior decorator and creator manager of her show-stopping satellite tours.

But the siblings haven't been without difficulties, with Christopher penning a tell-all publication astir his narration with his sister - wherever helium claimed Guy Ritchie 'drove astatine him' and admitted the brace 'never got along'.

He besides claimed Madonna's romance with the British manager was 'death knell for my narration with her'.

He added that the Material Girl hitmaker was 'a middle-class miss who propagates the communicative that she landed successful Times Square with conscionable a brace of ballet shoes and $35 to her name,' adding that is 'pure mythology and the further she progresses, the much mythological her beingness communicative becomes'.

Like his brothers, helium has besides struggled with intoxicant and cause maltreatment - with Madonna paying for his stints successful rehab.

She dropped him arsenic her circuit manager successful 2003, past his tell-all memoir, 'Life With My Sister Madonna,' was published successful 2008. 

In 2016, helium joined British-born Thacker. The 2 were often abstracted by condition arsenic Thacker was confined to England during the pandemic years but was yet by his husbands broadside arsenic helium battled cancer.

His narration with his sister appeared connected the mend by 2012, according to an interrogation with Evening Standard.

'(We are) connected a perfectly personable level close now. As acold arsenic I’m concerned, we’re good,' helium said.

'We are successful interaction with each other, though I haven’t seen her for a agelong time. We’re backmost to being a member and sister. I don’t enactment for her, and it’s amended this way.'

Additionally helium stated his pridefulness for his sister: 'I couldn’t beryllium much arrogant of her. She is simply a unit to beryllium reckoned with. Does she person Barbra Streisand’s voice? No.

'Can she creation similar Martha Graham? Probably not. But the operation of her abilities has made her great, and near a immense bequest for her, and done her, for me. So yeah, God bless her.'

In second years, Christopher relocated to the precocious reaches of Michigan’s little peninsula for enactment and to beryllium person to household —many of whom are progressive successful his father’s winemaking enterprise, Ciccone Vineyards, successful Sutton’s Bay adjacent Traverse City.