«Gthank you for having me driven crazy as a girland for introducing me to Charlie Parler, Miles Davies, Buddhism, Taoism, Charles Bukowski, Richard Brautigan, Jack Kerouac, et al. Thinking outside the box. You have planted many important seeds». Thus, in his Stories InstagramMadonna mourns the death of her older brother Anthony Ciccone, who passed away on Friday at the age of 66.
Goodbye to Anthony Ciccone, Madonna’s brother
The announcement of the death was given by musician Joe Henry, husband of Melanie Ciccone, one of Madonna’s sisters. «My brother-in-law Anthony Gerard Ciccone – wrote the 62-year-old artist on social media, publishing an old black and white photo – has left this ground floor. I had known him since I was 15, in the spring of our visits to Michigan: it has been so many years…».
A stormy relationship with the family
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Despite the fond memory by the pop star and other family members, everyone’s relationship with Anthony has been stormy especially in recent years. Madonna’s older brother had for a long time drug addiction and alcoholism problems. Addictions that for several years led him to being homeless and living under a bridge in Michigan.
Anthony’s attack on the family
Precisely for this reason, in the darkest years, Anthony attacked his sister and the rest of the family, accusing them of not being interested in him. «I am a zero in their eyes, a non-person. I’m an embarrassment. If I froze to death, my family probably wouldn’t know about it or wouldn’t care for six months,” she said in 2011. Adding that to Madonna “I have never loved, and she has never loved me”. Ciccone went on to say that the family «turned their backs on me, in practice, when I had problems. Why is my sister a multimillionaire and I live on the street? Never say never, it can happen to anyone.” But he stressed that “I’m not looking for publicity, I don’t want someone to give me a hand just because I’m Madonna’s brother”.
The help of the pop star
The pop star, however, apparently he has repeatedly offered his help to his brother, but he has only accepted it from time to time. And she instead accused her sister and family of “thinking that rehab is a sort of magical panacea for life’s ills”. Nonetheless, in 2017 she agreed to undergo a detox program at a facility, and reconnected with her family.
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