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Madonna attended the second annual Veuve Clicquot Manhattan Polo Classic polo match on Governor's Island in New York on Saturday 30 May 30.

She was joined by designer Marc Jacobs and her children Rocco and David. The event this year was to raise money for an Prince Harry's organization that supports AIDS orphans in the African nation of Lesotho.

 

Mirwais is in the June issue of French gay magazine Tetu and he talks about Madonna saying that they still have 4 or 5 songs to make together that did not fit in the concept of "Hard Candy" including a superb folk one he likes very much.

Mirwais says that after producing Madonna he refused to produce J-lo and many others because as he puts it "Once you've worked with the best there's no use to downgrade".

 

"Planning my set for a Madonna show is tough because she covers the whole spectrum. It's a white, black, gay, straight crowd, aged between 15 and 60. It's no good making it too underground. Despite the big venues it'll still be clubby and I'll get the crowd going. And it doesn't take much to get Madonna in the mood."

Madonna's favourite DJ Paul Oakenfold, who opens the concerts of the 2009 of the Sticky & Sweet Tour, talking about how she's very easy to get "in the mood" and how he doesn't need much motivation when she's performing live on stage.

Oakenfold insists it's a "privilege" sharing the same bill as her and tells Britain's Daily Star newspaper: "Her fans adore her. I remember we did four sell-out shows in Buenos Aires in front of 80,000 people each night. It's a privilege for crowds like that."

The DJ is also producing new songs for Madonna's upcoming Greatest Hits release. He said: "We've been in New York working on the tunes. She's a truly lovely lady, but she's the boss so everyone will just have to wait for the new stuff."

An oil painting featuring Madonna and her former husband Guy Ritchie naked is up for auction. The controversial painting by artist Peter Howson was made in 2005, while the former duo divorced last year.

In the painting, Madonna is featured reclining while Guy’s hand is placed on her thigh. McTear's auction house in Glasgow is expecting the controversial painting to fetch a whopping 22,000 pounds.

"There is no doubt that the recent split of Madonna and Guy has generated increased interest in the painting,” the Telegraph quoted Brian Clements from the auctioneers as saying.

"The painting created a huge amount of controversy when it was unveiled a few years ago and I think it's safe to say it is one of a kind,” Brian added. Howson is known for painting multifarious naked celebrity portraits.

 

Women's Wear Daily published an article on Ricardo Tisci of Givenchy, which includes a brief mention of the Sticky & Sweet Tour:

"Meanwhile, Tisci's costume design duties continue to grow. The designer said he's creating new looks for Madonna's ongoing tour"
Previously, Arianne Phillips was quoted for refurbishing and creating new looks for the 2009 leg of the tour. Currently, it is unknown whether all the costumes are going to be reworked, or Tisci was just asked to recreate the costumes that coincide with the newly added songs.
Ricardo Tisci of Givenchy is responsible for the Gangsta Pimp and Gypsy outfits of the show. Keep in mind that the DVD release of this tour is going to contain the 2008 version of the show and the changes are more likely to appear as separate bonus features, than as parts of a newly filmed full show.

 

Nobody else knows about this (well aside from Paul Oakenfold, Madonna, some studio people, her manager, friends, Lourdes, Rocco, David and several hundread nannies) but we can exclusively reveal the name of the new songs that Paul Oakenfold has recorded with her royal highness, all time queen of the pop fiefdom and snout rubberer of the puffed up and self righteous in the poop (ie Madonna).

We just got off the blower with legendary superstar DJ Paul Oakenfold for a little interview we will be running in our July issue out at the end of June in our nightlife section. Paul is doing his amazing thing all over the world and has been Djing for the Madonna tour of last year which returns to London on Pride day July 4th before going to Manchester and then heading out into the wider world. So taken with the Oakenfold was she that she invited him into the studio to work on some new tracks for possible inclusion on Madonna’s highly anticipated new Greatest Hits album due for release sometime this year.

Paul said Madonna was highly professional, he learned a lot and that the new tracks are ‘lyrically classic Madonna with an edgy modern sound’.

‘Oooh’ we gasped, as we help the phone on a cord under our chin, and whipped up an omelette with the other hand, in a Thelma and Louise serving omelettes in a Texas Diner kind of way.

He told us the tracks were sitting right there next to him and he told us what they are called. He didn’t know which ones would be the Greatest Hits CD and didn’t know when it would be out, though he imagined the run up to Christmas ‘when most greatest hits come out’. Our other pixie sources have told us that it may well be before that (ie Madonna wrote in a fan newsletter that it would be spring).

So, the song titles are… (in no order)

‘Broken’

‘I’m sorry’

and

‘Celebrate’.

So there we are. We don’t know what this says about our glorious leader’s emotional state – the first two we decided were about her sadness at splitting from Guy but then we thought maybe she is saying ‘celebrate my freedom, I’m sorry I waited so long and I’ve broken the bed with Jesus’.

Paul Oakenfold supports Madonna at the O2 in London and in Manchester in early July. He also headlines at Wireless in Hyde Park, London.

Madonna with her kids at the Zipover West Side Highway in NY (May 25 2009)

Britney Spears has revealed that it was Madonna who persuaded her to take her kids on tour with her. 

The pop princess, who is currently on her Circus world tour with sons Jayden James and Sean Preston, said her pal Madonna told her to make her kids proud of her. 

Britney told OK! magazing: "When they're adults I want my kids to say 'Mom worked so hard, but she was always there for us."

The Womanizer singer went on: "It's all about history. What we as mothers are doing is creating history with our kids that we can look back on."

Britney went on to reveal that she took ex-husband Kevin Federline on tour with her to look after the kids - at a cost of a whopping $5,000 an hour!

 

A new unofficial calendar is now available in the USA, Madonna 2010 Calendar.

Could you have imagined this success in a short time?
Yes, I believed that someday something will happened to me but i can’t imagine in this proportion. It has been three years that I’m working with figuration, ads, etc to try to begin my career.

Press said that Madonna was impressed with you and your name. Is that true?
This is what people are saying, I don’t know.

How did you meet Madonna?
I was introduced by Steven Klien and I thought she’s a wonderful person, with such a positive energy, nice and with no defects.

I was in the unreleased photoshoot party in Fasano Hotel and I could see you and Madonna dancing, watching each other in a sexy way. Is it true that she asked you to take off your shirt?
No, it was just a photoshoot, a professional party. Me and the other models had to continue dancing, posing and watching Madonna so that Steven Klein can take photos. I was working and what you saw was only a professional job.

Who is Jesus Luz?
I’m a quiet person, born in Rio de Janeiro. I love nature, beaches, taking care of my body, working out. And I was always looking for a spirituality in different religions, to find the God inside of me.

Everybody wants to ask you this question: Are you dating Madonna? Will you marry her?
She’s a person that I admire and she’s a good friend in my life and we worked together.
She’s my friend and I can’t talk more about this.

We saw you in a jewel store this week. Those gifts are for Madonna?
I won those jewels that were inspired by Kabbalah. They are for me and I can give them to anyone, to my mom for example. They aren’t marital gifts.

Do you often talk to Madonna?
Yes, we are friends and I’m in contact with my friends.

The international press called you Madonna’s ToyBoy. Does that make you feel discomfortable ?
I never give a chance to hear what people are saying about me. If I let people’s negativity into my life I really can’t go on my way.

Madonna has apparently been sending emails to Barack Obama with little tidbits of wisdom sourced from the Kabbalah.It is unknown if the intended recipient is actually reading them or if they are getting no further than the president's many minders.Madonna has told many friends and Kabbalah associates that she believes that America's leaders and the president himself can benefit by applying Kabbalah principles to running the country.'Madonna really believes that if Barack Obama ran the country according to the Kabbalah amazing things would happen and world peace would follow' an associate connected to the Kabbalah centre noted.

Negotiations to bring Madonna to Israel for an upcoming concert as part of her "Sticky & Sweet" tour are very close to being successfully concluded, various Israeli news outlets have reported.

The 50-year-old pop superstar has even set a date for the event, according to the reports, which would be on September 1 should the deal be finalized. The concert would be Madonna's first in Israel in 16 years; her last performance was in 1993, when the pop star drew thousands of fans to Tel Aviv's Yarkon Park.

Army Radio has reported that concert's organizers, Israeli producer Shuki Weiss and German producer Marek Lieberberg, are holding talks with the Orange cellular phone company, which they have asked to sponsor the event.

 

10 videos taken from the upcoming ‘Sticky & Sweet’ Tour DVD are now available for streaming for owners of a BlackBerry Bold from AT&T!The selection includes the following performances:

Enjoy all of them on our section of

• Candy Shop
  Beat Goes On
  Vogue
  Die Another Day
  Music
  Spanish Lesson
  Miles Away
  La Isla Bonita
  Get Stupid
  4 Minutes

 

She’s always liked them hot, young and Latin, but Madonna’s latest boy toy has another special charm — he was a Kabbalist before they even met.Jesus Luz, 22, immersed himself in the religion while he was still a struggling model in Rio de Janeiro. Since the late 1990s, Madonna has been an avid follower of the movement, which stems from Jewish mysticism and equates God to a ray of light.“Madonna must have thought she met God when she found Jesus,” said a Kabbalah devotee in New York, noting that “Jesus Luz” translates from Portuguese as “Jesus Light.”Leonardo Reis, manager of the Kabbalah Center in Rio, helped Luz with his studies starting in July 2008, six months before Jesus met Madonna.“All I can say to you is that Madonna is really, really happy with Jesus,” Reis said. “When she found out he was into Kabbalah, they really started to hit it off.”Reis organized a special Shabbat dinner for the couple and their friends after they met at a Rio photo shoot last December.

The dinner, complete with lit candles and guests clothed in white, was held at sunset in Madonna’s luxe suite at the Copacabana Palace Hotel with its stunning views of the Atlantic.Spirituality has always been a part of Luz’s life. His mother, Cristiane Regina da Silva, 37, is a member of the “Evangelicals,” a growing Protestant cult movement in Brazil. His father, an administrator at a public hospital in the Rio suburbs, says he decided to name his son Jesus because he admired the philosophy of Christ.But four years after baby Jesus was born, the family split. Cristiane, a colorist at a tony Ipanema salon, raised Luz on her own in a gritty part of downtown Rio.Still, she was determined to give him the kind of life she never had. By the time he was an adolescent, Cristiane managed to save enough money to enroll him in a private prep school and encouraged his modeling career.Luz had star quality from a young age. At his prep school, girls sought out his autograph because of his intense blue eyes, said a former girlfriend.Those eyes must have also been a hit with photographer Steven Klein, who chose Luz’s picture from a stack of portfolio shots provided by model agent Sergio Mattos.According to Mattos, Klein offered Luz and two other male models $100 each for a two-day shoot in Rio for W magazine. The models didn’t know they would be working alongside Madonna until they arrived at the session in December.After the first day of shooting, Luz went home to his mother in such a good mood that he insisted on celebrating.“The first picture session with Madonna resulted in his coming home really happy,” said Cristiane in an interview with a Brazilian magazine. “He even opened a bottle of champagne.”But not everyone in Luz’s circle was joining in the fun. Shortly after the W shoot, Jesus dumped girlfriend Krishna Siqueira, a sultry model who introduced him to Kabbalah when they started dating last July.“My mother gave Jesus letters of the Kabbalah for him to meditate on,” said Siqueira, who like many of Luz’s friends lost touch with the model after Madonna whisked him to New York this year.Luz’s move to the Big Apple has paid off. The boy toy, who is also devoted to macrobiotic cuisine and is fluent in English, is now a high-profile Ford Model who recently shot a Dolce & Gabbana’s menswear campaign for fall/winter 2009-2010.Although Ford Models refused to say how much Luz makes per gig, a Brazilian newspaper reported that he was commanding a $100,000 fee to appear at a local fashion show shortly after he started dating Madonna. Luz’s earnings have also enabled him to finance his mother’s recent move into an upscale apartment in Ipanema.In New York, Luz is now a regular at hotspots like the Waverly Inn and earlier this month escorted Madonna to the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute Ball, considered the city’s society event of the year.He’s friends with Marc Jacobs and the famous designer’s Brazilian companion, Lorenzo Martone, who has become a mentor to the young model. In March, Jacobs wrote a letter to US authorities to help Luz obtain a work permit here.Every Saturday morning, Madonna and Luz attend services at the Kabbalah Centre in Midtown, and he spends his free time jogging in Central Park, reading Deepak Chopra and attending a school for DJs, friends say.“His passion is electronic music,” his best friend in Rio told The Post. “He is really working hard to become a DJ.”Luis Heitor Luz, Jesus’ 46-year-old father, told The Post his son is firmly committed to the pop star. “I know he loves Madonna, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they get married,” he said. “People speak about the difference in their ages but this is nonsense. I was 23 and his mother was 14 when Jesus was born.”Although it was recently reported that Madonna and Jesus planned to wed in a Kabbalah commitment ceremony, a spokeswoman for the pop queen last week flatly denied the rumors.But in Rio, a Kabbalist who knows the couple said, “There is no need for marriage. They are already spiritually joined.”

 

Israeli newspaper Yediot Achronot is reporting today that if all goes well Madonna will perform in Israel on Tuesday 01 September (not in October as previously reported in the Israeli press) at Park Hayarkon in Tel-Aviv.

Madonna is standing before a packed crowd at the Palladium in New York. Stage lights beam overhead. Legions of plastic bracelets dangle from her slender wrists. Her disheveled  locks are pulled away from her face. Clutching onto the microphone stand, she glances to her right. Click. The flashy scene from 1983 stands still forever with the help of a guy and his camera. At the Grammy Museum at downtown’s L.A. Live, this portrait of Madonna and other music heavyweights make up “Occupation Dreamer: The Photography of Moshe Brakha,” the first photography exhibition at the 30,000-square-foot museum. The collection is like a mix tape of images taken from 1976 to 1986 of mostly up-and-coming rock stars of the time.

Madonna performing at the Palladium in New York in 1983.