{"id":5755,"date":"2011-10-25T12:16:03","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T12:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=5755"},"modified":"2011-10-25T12:16:03","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T12:16:03","slug":"madonnas-brother-anthony-ciccone-homeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2011\/10\/25\/madonnas-brother-anthony-ciccone-homeless\/","title":{"rendered":"Madonna\u2019s brother Anthony Ciccone homeless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/madonna.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/madonna.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"madonna\" width=\"350\" height=\"508\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5757\" \/><\/a>Madonna\u2019s brother is reportedly homeless and living under a bridge in Michigan after losing his job a year and a half ago \u2014 and he\u2019s annoyed that some people might find that amusing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy family turned their back on me, basically, when I was having a hard time,\u201d Anthony Ciccone told the Michigan Messenger website. \u201cYou think I haven\u2019t answered this kind of question a bazillion times \u2014 why my sister is a multibazillionaire and I\u2019m homeless on the street?\u201d<br \/>\nMadonna, of course, recently made headlines for her struggles with free hydrangeas.<br \/>\nCiccone said he had been working at his father\u2019s winery in Sutton\u2019s Bay, Mich., but now works odd jobs and collects recyclables. He\u2019s living in a town that has a network of churches providing nightly meals to those in need \u2014 and though the food may be hot, the northern Michigan days can be cold, with Ciccone among those falling victim to frostbite.<br \/>\nAnthony, 55, is a one of the pop star\u2019s older brothers; her younger brother, Christopher Ciccone, released an unflattering tell-all in 2008 about life with Madonna.<br \/>\nMichigan native Madonna Louise Ciccone was the third of six children. She has two daughters, Lourdes and Mercy, and two sons, Rocco and David. David and Mercy were adopted from Malawi. In March, Madonna\u2019s effort to build a school for girls in that African nation failed after millions had already been spent. At that time, she\u2019d donated $11 million to her Raising Malawi charity, which had raised a total of $18 million, according to the New York Times.<br \/>\n\u201cI do know what it is like to be misunderstood on a global scale\u201d like Wallis Simpson, the subject of her movie \u201cW.E.,\u201d Madonna told Sky News on Sunday at the film\u2019s London premiere screening, which was part of the BFI London Film Festival.<br \/>\nSeems to be faint chance that big sis will happen across her brother Anthony\u2019s story online, however: \u201cEven when I try something old and try music, I come up against the critics,\u201d the 53-year-old told Sky News. \u201cI cope by not reading anything.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madonna\u2019s brother is reportedly homeless and living under a bridge in Michigan after losing his job a year and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[238],"tags":[286,258,347],"class_list":["post-5755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-madonna-in-malawi","tag-madonna","tag-malawi","tag-ngo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}