By Molly Chance

9:32 a.m. CDT, April 1, 2013
Madonna's older brother lives on the streets in Traverse City, Mich. and claims his billionaire sister "doesn't give a s*** if I'm dead or alive." Anthony Ciccone has been homeless for nearly two years after losing his job at the family's winery.
"I'm a zero in their eyes; a non-person, an embarrassment," says Ciccone of his family. "If I froze to death, my family probably wouldn't know or care about it for six months." Though he admits to the Daily Mail Madonna paid for him to have a two-month rehab stint in Texas six years back. Ciccone has undergone treatment for alcoholism on multiple occasions, but proudly recalls a time he smoked a joint with his superstar sister, Mick Jagger, David Bowie and Iggy Pop.

Ciccone claims he's not out for Madonna's money, but instead wants something more personal from his younger sibling. "My sister's a multi-millionaire but she earned it," he says. "I have to give her credit for that. But you'd think there'd be some more family loyalty, and that's not the case." So, what does he want? "Just to communicate would be nice."
Ciccone says the last time he saw his sister she was stepping out of a limousine at a premiere, as he joined a crowd of onlookers then spent the night with vagrants. Meanwhile Madonna's MDNA tour recently pushed her bank account over the line into billionaire status.
The estranged siblings' father, Tony Ciccone, Sr., has offered to give Anthony his job back if he will seek professional help, but so far he has refused, saying "My family seem to think rehab is some kind of magic panacea for life's ills."

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

Madge should get her brother some bad H and help him kill himself. Everyone wins!

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@audioidkid

Let's say,he wasn't an abuser. Let's say he is just a 9-5 guy with a wife & kids and a mortgage. That bitch can't slip her brother a million and tell him to take it easy?

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

well, don't you think if that was the case she would have? do you know that she hasn't given him large sums of cash previously?

the guy got fired from the family winery of all places...

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@audioidkid

I would think a winery is probably a bad place for an alcoholic to be working. Just sayin...

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I had a cousin who died because he couldn't handle himself at the family business (drinking establishment). The last few years of his life his parents paid him (pretty sure) to stay home & stay sober but eventually got sick (from alcholol abuse catching up to him) & died.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

Madonna may have helped him out 15 times before. We don't know that. Maybe she said if you start drinking again, we are end communicado!

In all honesty though, I could not care less about this.

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Rich people who help out their families tend not to be rich anymore. Ask Antoine Walker.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

I can't believe with insights like this you were not a repeat champion.

Unbelievable. Truly.

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Let me ask you guys something.

Your sister hits the big Lotto,your not looking/expecting a taste??

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

exactly...



well, his dad said he could come back if he got help.



am I an alcoholic or drug addict? then, yes...

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@audioidkid

No, jimmy. I am not looking at or tasting my sister. This isn't Wisconsin.

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FIXED.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

Interesting choice of words. In any case, no thank you. I don't buy lottery tickets so I don't "deserve" a taste. It'd be akin to her wanting a piece of my 401(k) when we retire. I'll have money in it, while she spent hers on lottery tickets.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

Not even a drop.

It sounds like they are trying to help him the best way they know how.

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Would giving him money actually be helping him?
I say madonna is helping him more bty refusing to give him more money.

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I appreciate the support.

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Let me say, you have been absolutely delightful lately...

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"nut Jagger"

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Ба́бушка гада́ла, да на́двое сказа́ла—то ли до́ждик, то ли снег, то ли бу́дет, то ли нет.

Yikes, COF. You've been working pretty blue lately. Not sure if I'm in favor of this new direction you're taking...

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This is my signature...

Quick, somebody type the word Ffag so COF can laugh at another 5 year old joke!

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Absolutely.

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The mean streets of Traverse City aren't all that bad.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

This is my take on this situation. The line between helping and enabling is a fine one. I'm sure there have been a number of attempts made to help. But as is the case with most people with addictions, if the individual is not willing to make the changes needed they cannot really be helped. I highly doubt that his family doesn't care about him as he says. They just don't care to continue to enable his addictions.

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Go Cubs!!!!

Some people will never be satisfied no matter what you do. That being said if I had that type of money my ungrateful immediate family would never be homeless.

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

That's how I feel also.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

You know, sometimes reading this board is like taking a shit.

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But he isnt

If the Queen had balls she'd be the King!

Guessing a long long line of help has been provided from numerous sources.

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

Sounds like he's homeless by choice. Theyve offered him his job back but he doesnt want to go to rehab ( no, no, no) . So fuck him, he basically is making it sound like I want to be able to be a fucking drunk with an unlimited supply of cash and no responsibility. Like W. Or Arthur Bach.

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