October 7, 2024

Hello Out readers!

In some very sad news, Madonna's brother, Christopher Ciccone, has passed away at the age of 63.

Ciccone was a designer and an artist who worked with his sister Madonna as the creative director for her Blond Ambition World Tour and The Girlie Show tour in the nineties.

According to THR, he "died peacefully surrounded by his husband, Ray Thacker, and other loved ones."

Madonna and Ciccone didn't always have the best relationship, as they had a falling out, partially due to Madonna outing Ciccone in an interview with The Advocate in 1991. Thankfully, the two had reconciled.

"My brother Christopher is gone… He was the closest human to me for so long. It's hard to explain our bond, but it grew out of an understanding that we were different and society was going to give us a hard time for not following the status quo," Madonna said in a statement. "We took each other's hands and we danced through the madness of our childhood. In fact, dance was a kind of superglue that held us together. Discovering dance in our small Midwestern town saved me, and then my brother came along, and it saved him too."

Now, onto the news.