Madonna''s brother is homeless and living under a Bridge

While the Material Girl owns six expensive houses in London alone,  it was revealed this week that her big brother sleeps rough under a bridge in a small town in Michigan.Anthony belongings can be fitted into the plastic shopping bag he carries around with him. 

Homeless for the past 18 months since he lost his job at his father’s wine-making business, Anthony 55, spends his nights dossing on the cold concrete of a grubby footpath under Traverse City’s Union Street road bridge, sharing damp, threadbare blankets with his companion, a fellow alcoholic named Michael Champ.

With Anthony accusing Madonna and other family members of ‘washing their hands’ of him, the startling contrast between his life and his sister’s has inevitably raised the question: how could a woman with a $650 million fortune leave her brother in such desperate straits.

It is clear that Madonna knows about his plight, and that she has repeatedly offered to help by paying for him to go into rehab. His father has offered to give him his job back if he gets professional help.

But ask Anthony whether his sister and their 80-year-old father, Tony, have helped him and he is immediately riled.

‘I’m a zero in their eyes; a non-person, an embarrassment,’ he tells me, his voice rising.

‘If I froze to death, my family probably wouldn’t know or care about it for six months.’

culled from daily mail