14 DAY TRIAL // One would expect a superstar as rich as Madonna is would take better care of their family. In a shocking recent interview, the singer’s estranged brother reveals that he’s actually penniless and living in the streets.
Anthony Ciccone who, until last year, worked on his father’s vineyard in Michigan and was then fired for reasons unknown, is now homeless.
He says that, while his famous sister can change residence as one would a pair of dirty socks, he’s living in the streets with other homeless people, watching them die of cold in the winter and fearing the same would happen to him.
Mr. Ciccone points to the irony between Madonna’s lifestyle and his own, and says never in his life did he think his own family would turn their back on him like this.
“My family turned their back on me, basically, when I was having a hard time. You think I haven’t answered this kind of question a bazillion times – why my sister is a multibazillionaire, and I’m homeless on the street?” Anthony says in the interview cited by AceShowbiz.
He’s yet to find an answer to the question but, in the meantime, he’s seeing people die in the blistering cold, thinking his day would come soon too.
“If you spend enough time on frozen concrete without proper insulation you will get frostbite. You have no idea how gruesome it is,” Mr. Ciccone says.
“You get nerve damage. That’s the milder stage, in the severe stage you have tissue damage, that is when you lose parts of your body,” he adds.
With winter nearly here, he can’t help but think about how difficult the previous one was.
“I got frostbite on my feet last winter. A friend of mine lost all ten toes. Several have died of hypothermia,” Anthony says.
His famous sister, Madonna, was not immediately available for comment on the above. She’s promoting her much talked about historical piece, “W.E.,” which she wrote and directed.