UPDATE: Céline Dion's rep has released a statement about Daniel Dion. Read more details below.
Celine Dion has suffered another family tragedy: Her brother Daniel Dion has died of cancer, days after her husband René Angélil succumbed to the same ailment.
The Canadian pop singer's rep confirmed the news to E! News on Saturday, hours after it was revealed Daniel suffered from cancer of the throat, tongue and brain and did not have long to live. He had battled the disease for a few years, Celine's rep said in a statement.
Daniel was one of Celine's 13 older siblings and the eighth child of parents, Thérèse Dion, 88, and Adhémar Dion, who died in 2003 at age 80.
Daniel is also survived by his daughters, Valérie and Marie-Michelle, grandchildren Matis and Laurianne and "many nieces and nephews, cousins and friends, who are remembering a gentle and reserved man of many talents," read the statement.
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