Madonna's stepmom Joan Ciccone married the star's father Silvio in 1966. She died of cancer on Sept. 24.
Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2019, and her work has previously appeared in Entertainment Weekly and the New York Daily News.“She will be terribly missed by her family and friends whose lives she enriched with her enthusiasm, joy and love,” the obituary says.Joan entered Madonna’s life when the pop star was 8 years old, marrying Silvio in 1966.
“My mother died when I was little and that was difficult for me for a while,” she said. “I mean truthfully, I didn’t accept my stepmother when I was growing up. In retrospect, I think that was really hard on her. She was ... I’m very close to my father and I didn’t want to accept change in my life.”that when she was younger, she “didn’t have any relationship” with Joan, and therefore had “no role model” to look up to.
In 1995, she and Silvio, 93, moved to Suttons Bay, Mich. to develop and operate Ciccone Vineyard and Winery. “She took special joy in her grandkids later in life and with the grim cancer prognosis lamented that she was sad she would not see them marry and have kids of their own,” her obituary says.
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