Amid Mariah Carey’s heartbreaking announcement that her mother Patricia and sister Alison died on the same day over the weekend, Dailymail.com is taking a closer look at Alison’s life.
Carey, 55, told People in a statement Monday, ‘My heart is broken that I’ve lost my mother this past weekend. Sadly, in a tragic turn of events, my sister lost her life on the same day.’
Alison was 63 when she died while Patricia was 87, according to the outlet, which noted their respective causes of death were immediately clear.
Mariah said she felt ‘blessed’ she was able to ‘spend the last week’ with her mother prior to her passing.
She added, ‘I appreciate everyone’s love and support and respect for my privacy during this impossible time.’
Amid Mariah Carey ‘s heartbreaking announcement that her mother Patricia and sister Alison died on the same day over the weekend , Dailymail.com is taking a closer look at Alison’s life
Carey, 55, told People in a statement Monday, ‘My heart is broken that I’ve lost my mother this past weekend. Sadly, in a tragic turn of events, my sister lost her life on the same day.’ Pictured in NYC in September of 2022
Relationship with Mariah
Alison was the older sister to Mariah, and the middle child of the late Patricia and opera singer Alfred Carey (who died at 72 in 2002).
The former couple, also parents to son Morgan Carey, 64, had been wed from 1960-1973, splitting when Mariah was three-years-old.
Mariah said in her 2020 memoir The Meaning of Mariah Carey that after extensive therapy, she decided to cease contact with both Alison and Morgan.
‘For my sanity and peace of mind, my therapist encouraged me to literally rename and reframe my family … Morgan my ex-brother and Alison my ex-sister … I had to stop expecting them to one day miraculously become the … big brother and big sister I fantasized about,’ she wrote.
Mariah added: ‘I had to stop making myself available to be hurt by them. It has been helpful. I have no doubt it is emotionally and physically safer for me not to have any contact with my ex-brother and ex-sister.’
In the book, Mariah claimed that Alison tried to get her to use drugs and had ‘inflicted [her] with third-degree burns’ when she was a pre-teen, impacting her lifelong development.
‘When I was 12 years old, my sister drugged me with Valium, offered me a pinky nail full of cocaine … and tried to sell me out to a pimp,’ Mariah said. ‘Something in me was arrested by all that trauma. That is why I often say, “I’m eternally 12.” I am still struggling through that time.’
The siblings were pictured in 1993 after Carey wed record producer Tommy Mottola
Legal action against Mariah
In the wake of the release of the book in September of 2020, Alison filed a $1.25 million lawsuit against the Grammy-winning artist in 2021.
Alison in legal docs denied ‘outrageous claims’ made in a chapter titled Dandelion Tea, in which Mariah alleged that a 20-year-old Alison had sought to sell her to a pimp at the age of 12, noting that the singer provided no evidence to back up the shocking claim, ET reported.
Alison said in legal docs that Mariah ‘used her status as a public figure to attack her penniless sister, generating sensational headlines describing her lurid claims to promote sales of her book.’
Alison said said that the ‘cruel and outrageous allegations’ made by Mariah in the book left her ‘devastated’ amid a number of other unfortunate circumstances in her life.
Alison said she had was ‘already struggling with the unspeakable trauma of her childhood and having her own children abandon her’ prior to the publication of the memoir.
Alison said she had ‘become severely depressed and uncharacteristically tearful since the publication of [Mariah’s] book and now struggles, after a long time clean, with alcohol abuse.’
She said that she wanted the $1.25 million sum as ‘compensation for the infliction of immense emotional distress caused by defendant’s heartless, vicious, vindictive, despicable and totally unnecessary public humiliation.’
