Madonna fan gets probation for resisting arrest

A former firefighter with a crush on Madonna has been sentenced to three years’ probation for resisting arrest outside the singer’s New York City apartment building.

A former firefighter with a crush on Madonna has been sentenced to three years’ probation for resisting arrest outside the singer’s New York City apartment building.

A Russian court on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit that sought millions of dollars in damages from Madonna for allegedly traumatizing minors by speaking up for gay rights during a concert in St. Petersburg.

Several Russian activists have filed a 10-million-dollar lawsuit against Madonna, claiming they were offended by the pop diva’s support of homosexuals during her recent show, their lawyer said Monday.

A small Madonna concert that the pop star said was intended to celebrate France’s tolerance instead tested it, drawing boos and cries of “refund!” when she left the stage after just 45 minutes.

Irish actor Pierce Brosnan, star of Roman Polanski’s “The Ghost Writer” and a former James Bond incarnation, was among some 2,700 fans cheering US pop icon Madonna at her Paris concert Thursday.

Colorful rap artist Nicki Minaj is a certified “crackberry,” like many other world-famous celebrities.

US pop icon Madonna hit the stage running at Abu Dhabi’s Yas Island stadium on Sunday in her first ever concert in the Gulf, days after launching a world tour in Israel.

Dark Catholic imagery was spliced with blood, guts and guns as Madonna burst onto the stage at Tel Aviv’s Ramat Gan stadium late on Thursday to kick off her hotly-anticipated MDNA world tour of some 30 countries.

Hollywood star Will Smith slapped a male television reporter who he said tried to kiss him on the lips as he walked down the red carpet for the Moscow premiere of “Men in Black III.”

Madonna says Adam Yauch, the Beastie Boys rapper who died Friday, was one of a kind and that the group was important to her musical history.

MADONNA is out to get her pop throne back from Lady Gaga—and, as “MDNA,” her 12th studio recording proves, she isn’t playing coy about it. In the track, “I Don’t Give A,” after she takes a snipe at former husband, director Guy Ritchie (“I tried to become all that you expect of me/ Diminished myself/ You were so mad at me/ Who’s got custody?”), Madonna gets guest Nicki Minaj to hurl a crisp expletive after she declares, “There’s only one queen—and that’s Madonna!”
Malawi’s education minister is complaining his government has been left out of Madonna’s plans to drastically scale back charity efforts here.