He was an alcoholic, lived on the street and said that his sister had left him: Madonna’s older brother died at the age of 66

Madonna’s older brother, Anthony Ciccone, died at the age of 66. Previously, he struggled with alcoholism for years, lived on the streets and said that his “superstar” sister turned her back on him.

The news was conveyed by a statement from Joe Henry, the husband of the singer’s sister: Melanie Ciccone, published by the Daily Mail: “My brother-in-law, Anthony Gerard Ciccone, left this earthly plane last night. I have known him since he was 15 years old,” she wrote.

“Anthony was a complex character and God knows, sometimes we got into trouble, as true brothers know. But I loved him and understood him better than he was sometimes willing to admit.”

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Like Madonna, her brother also lived in New York at the age of 30 in the late 1980s.

Carolina Gengo, who was walking with him at the time, described him positively. “He was a lost soul trying to find his way, but he was a good person,” he revealed.

I had books everywhere, that was all I really had. He liked to read about life and philosophy. He wanted to sit down and talk about it.”

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Madonna’s older brother died at the age of 66

According to those who knew him, Anthony Ciccone did not like being called “Madonna’s brother”. On one occasion, on her birthday, her sister’s assistant called to ask how much money she wanted as a gift. That bothered him.

After several years of sleeping in the open, under a bridge in Michigan, Madonna’s family agreed to include it again in the nucleus in 2017.

But for years he publicly suggested that his family had turned their backs on him. “In his eyes I am zero, a non-person, a pity,” he revealed to the Daily Mail in 2011.

Madonna’s brother admitted at the time that he was living under a bridge over a river in Michigan with a sleeping bag, and his only company was another homeless man named Michael.

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