Last February, tragic news shook Madonna's family: Anthony Ciccone, the singer's older brother, died suddenly at the age of 66. The person in charge of giving this sad news was the musician Joe Henry, married to Melanie, another of the sisters of the popular singer.
Anthony had had a complex and difficult life; having to cope for a time with a strong addiction to alcohol that even led him to live on the street. An addiction that many thought would have been responsible for his sudden death, but the results of the autopsy, which have now been made public, reveal that it was another addiction that ended his life: his excessive consumption of tobacco. .
The TMZ portal has been in charge of revealing the cause of death of Anthony Ciccone, after obtaining the coroner's report in which he gives details of the autopsy. According to this report and the death certificate, Ciccone would have died as a result of oropharyngeal cancer that he had suffered for a long time, a disease that is usually caused by excessive tobacco consumption. The death certificate reveals that he died of respiratory failure and the aforementioned throat cancer.
A disease that would have been aggravated by the consequences of his alcoholism, for which he had to be admitted to a rehabilitation center in 2018.
The relationship between the "Queen of Pop" and her brother was never the best, nor was that of the man with the rest of his family, who did what they could to help him with his addictions. According to a source to People, all of his brothers were with him "while he agreed to be helped," as well as visiting him frequently in the last months before his death, while he was admitted to rehabilitation.
After the news of his death was confirmed, Madonna did not comment, except to "like" the publication in which her brother-in-law Joe said goodbye to Anthony. However, hours later she decided to post a message through her Instagram account, thanking her.
"Thank you for blowing my mind and introducing me to Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Buddhism, Taoism, Charles Bukowski, Richard Brautiga, Jack Kerouac... You planted very important seeds," the singer said in that brief message.
The Vogue interpreter and her brother were born into a large family made up of six other siblings: Paula (63), Christopher (62), Melanie (61), Martin (65), Jennifer (55) and Mario (54). . Their childhood was not easy, as her mother lost her life at just 33 years of age due to breast cancer. In addition, her father practically abandoned them soon after, after rebuilding his life with another woman.
This is one of the reasons why the artist has always been determined to keep all her children together, Lourdes (27), Rocco (23), David Banda (18), Mercy James (17), and the twins Stella and Estere (12). The composer, actress and businesswoman has also confessed on several occasions that she is very strict with the upbringing of her six children, to whom she has always endeavored to instill a certain education, promoting values, responsibilities and good manners.
