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| | Madonna sued again by ticket holders for starting DC concert two hours late | | Added 59 minutes ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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It?s been 25 years since Madonna debuted ?Like A Prayer? and first sang the illusory lyrics ?life is a mystery.? And time seems to have proven that the greatest mystery of all for Her Madgesty is how to start her own concerts on time. I guess she just can?t get into the groove! Her clock is on holiday! The stage manager says ?We only got four minutes? but Madge doesn?t listen! Oh, I crack myself up. Madonna was sued in January by two concertgoers for starting her Dec. 13 Brooklyn show more than two hours late. Now three attendees of her Dec. 18 show in DC have filed another suit over Madonna?s tardiness. The kicker with this one is that Madame X started out the DC concert by rescinding an apology for the two hour delay. Your honor, Exhibit A: ?It?s who I am? I?m always late.?
Seeing red: Three formerly true-blue Madonna fans are now seeing red. They have filed a federal class-action lawsuit in Washington, D.C. against the singer and Live Nation complaining that she was allegedly late getting onstage. The fans, Elizabeth Halper-Asefi, Mary Conoboy, and Nestor Monte, Jr., claim that their tickets said the Celebration Tour would begin at 8:30 p.m. but that Madge didn?t make an appearance until 10:30 p.m. on each of her D.C. dates in December.
?A consumer?s worst nightmare?: In the filing, obtained by Rolling Stone, the D.C. three say they feel ?deceived.? They also claim that they ?had to leave the concerts early prior to the concerts? conclusion, therefore depriving each of them of the benefit of seeing the complete concert.? The lawsuit further alleges that Madonna ?maintained[ed] a hot and uncomfortable temperature in the venue during her performance? and that she ?lip sync[ed] much of her performance.? These alleged actions, they claim, represent ?Madonna?s arrogant and total disrespect? for ticketholders. ?In essence, Madonna and Live Nation are a consumer?s worst nightmare,? the lawsuit claims.
Sorry, not sorry: When Madonna got onstage at the Dec. 18 D.C. show that the fans were at, the suit claims she told the crowd: ?I am sorry I am late? no, I am not sorry, it?s who I am? I?m always late.? One of the plaintiffs, Halper-Asefi, spent $992.76 on tickets from StubHub, while the others purchased theirs from Ticketmaster. Conoboy spent $537.70 on two tickets while Monte shelled out $252.44 for two. ?Defendants failed to provide any notice to the ticketholders that the Concerts would start much later than the start time printed on the ticket and as advertised, which resulted in the ticketholders waiting for hours for the Concerts to begin at the venue,? the lawsuit claims.
A pattern of behavior: Interestingly, the suit cites several examples of past Madonna tours where she did not get onstage promptly, including her 2016 Rebel Heart tour and Madame X concerts in Brooklyn, suggesting Madonna?s alleged tardiness is well known. ?There have been myriad articles in the media and the internet over the years of fans complaining about Madonna not taking the stage for several hours after the advertised start time of her concerts,? the complaint reads. ?Unfortunately, not all people who rely on advertising for the concerts know this. Further, even if some ticket purchasers know of Madonna?s unfortunate history of starting her concerts late, they do not know how late she will show-up [sic] on stage at any particular concert, so ticket purchasers arrived at the start time as advertised.?
Read the footnote: A lawyer for the plaintiffs directed Rolling Stone to a footnote from the filing that states, ?This Complaint is not about unhappy fans who don?t want to stay up late, but instead, reasonable, responsible people who had commitments to babysitters, work, getting their vehicles out of parking lots that closed at 12:00 midnight, and realizing that public transportation would no longer be operating.?
[From Rolling Stone]
Most of the arguments here are the same as with the other lawsuit. With that first one, I was going back and forth on whether it?s effective for the plaintiffs to harp on Madonna?s history of starting shows late. My concern was that they were making themselves vulnerable to the counter-argument that if she?s notorious for being late, shouldn?t the concertgoers have anticipated that possibility? But I?ve come around now, especially with seeing the ticket prices included in the filing. People have a right to expect the show to start at the time it says on the ticket, so that they can make all other logistical arrangements AND get to see the whole show. I can?t wait to see fake Celebration Tour merch pop up on Etsy with the tagline, Madonna + Live Nation: a consumer?s worst nightmare.
Lastly, I have to bring up again ? because it cannot be forgotten amid these lawsuits ? that Madonna used to charge her backup dancers $100 a minute for being late to rehearsals. Karma is a slick mistress with patience, a sense of poetry, and a long memory.
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| | Madonna called out a wheelchair user for sitting down at her concert | | Added 41 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Remember that time Madonna started her Celebration Tour concert in New York nearly three hours late, then two ticket holders from that night banded together to sue her, and Her Madgesty?s lawyers rebutted saying they were going to fight the case ?vigorously!? but the kicker in all of it was that Madonna used to charge her backup dancers $100 for every minute they were late to rehearsals? Hey, you know that we are living in a material world! Experience has made Madge rich and now they?re after her. We haven?t had an update on the case, but last week Madonna made a concert-
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| | Madonna sued by ticket holders for starting concert two hours late | | Added 90 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Madonna was hospitalized in New York last June for a bacterial infection so severe she was in the ICU and put in an induced coma for 48 hours. Thankfully she recovered and was discharged to continue recuperating at home. But the health emergency meant that she couldn?t kick off her Celebration Tour in mid-July. Instead she assured her fans (and Live Nation) that she would be back on track with the European leg of the tour by October. The US leg began in December when she played the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, and it was heralded as a triumphant return to New York? when it finally got started more than two hours late. We don?t know if the delay was due to health, technical, or other reasons, but two attendees were not happy about it and have now filed a lawsuit against Her Madgesty:
Two Madonna fans filed a federal lawsuit against the Material Girl for starting her concert several hours late, claiming they had to wake up early for work the next day.
Michael Fellows and Jonathan Hadden wanted to get into the groove and purchased tickets for Madonna?s Dec. 13 concert at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
According to the lawsuit, the tickets for the ?Celebration? tour show stated the performance would start at 8:30 p.m. However, Madonna did not take the stage until some time after 10:45 p.m., a habit that appears to be en vogue for the pop superstar.
The men claim that by the time they left the venue at 1 a.m., they were ?stranded? due to limited public transportation options and had to pay more to order a ride-share, which was also experiencing surge pricing due to demand. The concert was held on a Wednesday, and the men are hung up over the fact that they ?had to get up early to work? the next day.
Fellows and Hadden are suing Madonna and Live Nation for ?unconscionable, unfair, and/or deceptive trade practices,? claiming a breach of contract. Barclays Center is also listed as a defendant.
The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Brooklyn federal court, seeks class action status, alleging the 65-year-old popstar has a ?years-long history? of starting concerts late, including at other ?Celebration? tour stops.
[From NBC News]
I am not a lawyer, but I did play one on my high school?s mock trial team, and I fear the aggrieved concertgoers have said too much in this statement. The show starting two hours and fifteen minutes late is an undisputed fact (you better believe it was noted in real time on the interwebs). I would think that?s enough of a case right there. I don?t see how these gentlemen sharing that they had to wake up early the next day is strictly relevant ? they bought tickets for a nighttime concert knowing they had work in the morning. That bit isn?t Madge?s fault. And calling attention to the fact that she?s (allegedly) notorious for starting late ? doesn?t that just establish that they should have expected or at least anticipated that this would happen? It just feels like they?re undercutting themselves right from the get, when again, all you have to say is an 8:30pm concert didn?t begin until 10:45pm.
What kills me as a New Yorker, though, is the argument that they were ?stranded!? at Barclays Center. Barclays sits atop perhaps the largest subway station in Brooklyn, if not the whole city. It?s a huge thoroughfare, above and below ground. There are 11 subway lines! Yes, after midnight the frequency of trains is somewhat reduced. But we?re talking about the city that never sleeps! I can personally vouch for being on the subway at that hour, multiple times. If they had to catch transportation like PATH or LIRR out of the city, then the late hour would have been a bigger problem. But if they had to go that far out, a ride-share would have been outrageously expensive anyway, before surge pricing. Aren?t we supposed to factor these logistics into the cost and planning for a night out? Or should I be spending more money on lawyers to get some money back on transit?
Finally, let us not forget that Madonna used to charge her backup dancers $100 a minute for being late to rehearsals. Oh the delicious karma of it all.
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| | Madonna used to charge dancers $100 a minute for being late | | Added 180 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Carrie Ann Inaba was on The Jennifer Hudson Show this week, presumably plugging Dancing With The Stars which is currently airing its Season 827, after an inauspicious start. Keeping with the dance theme, Carrie fondly spoke about being a backup dancer in her twenties for Madonna ? who began her Celebration Tour in London this month after recovering from an emergency stay in the ICU this summer. No surprise, Madge ran a tight ship. Case in point: she deducted $100 from your paycheck for every minute you were late.
?Dancing With the Stars? judge Carrie Ann Inaba reflected on her career on ?The Jennifer Hudson Show? Monday and spoke about being hired as a backup dancer for one of Madonna?s tours when she was just 23 years old.
And although Inaba had pretty positive things to say about her experience working with the ?Vogue? singer, she did say that Madonna had one outrageous rule that would make many want to express themselves to the HR department.
?Back in the day she was very strict,? Inaba said. ?She gave us this one rule ? which I?m so grateful she did. It was, for every minute you?re late, you have to pay her $100 out of your paycheck.?
?I ain?t going to lie, I?d be broke,? Hudson said exasperated. ?Cause I?m always late.?
Inaba then shared how following that costly rule affected her the rest of her life ? and she doesn?t sound traumatized at all.
?I?m never late,? Inaba said. ?I?m always early, in fact so much so, that I waste half my day ? showing up too early.?
Despite the rule, Inaba told Hudson that it was a dream come true to work for Madonna.
?There was like Michael [Jackson], Prince, and Madonna at the time. Right?? Inaba said. ?I got on Madonna?s tour, and I was like, ?That?s all I need!??
In fact, after Inaba was done with the tour, she said she ?retired? from dancing and went back to school.
?As a dancer, you?re kind of put out to pasture when you?re 25,? Inaba said.
Madonna is currently embarked on her Celebration Tour, so fingers crossed that her current and likely very young backup dancers have plenty of emergency funds in their savings account.
[From HuffPost]
I?d like to start my commentary by commending the author for the line, ?Madonna had one outrageous rule that would make many want to express themselves to the HR department.? The lyric inclusion is so unsmooth that it swings back to being fabulous, non? Love it. While $100/minute is a bit excessive, especially considering this tour was a couple decades ago, I don?t think this overall vibe is actually all that outrageous in the performing arts arena. At the Atlantic Theater Company ? the group David Mamet and William H. Macy founded ? they lock you out if you aren?t there 15 minutes ahead of class or rehearsal. Are these methods harsh? For sure. But Carrie sure sounds genuinely grateful for the standard it set to show up on time. On the other hand, she did retire from dancing right after that tour with Madge, so take from it what you will! I went back to the original interview cause I was dying to find out how much money Carrie had to fork over, but she was cheeky and only said ?I learned quickly.? Oh cmon, Carrie, dont be a tease. Tell us!
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| | Madonna Found Unresponsive, Hospitalized for Serious Infection | | Added 300 days ago | Source: The Blemish |
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Pop diva Madonna was found unresponsive and hospitalized for a serious infection that landed her in the ICU. The 64-year-old Material Girl is apparently on a quest to discover every possible fountain of youth, with hospital stays becoming her latest anti-aging ritual. Thats my cynical take. Talent manager Guy Oseary, who revealed the news on []
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| | Madonna looked so puffy & plastic at the Grammys & after-parties | | Added 442 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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At some point, we have to start treating Madonna like we treat Khloe Kardashian. Like, I?m not even surprised when Khloe turns up with a whole new face. That?s how it should be with Madonna too she?s been messing with her face since she was married to Guy Ritchie, and it?s only gotten worse over the past five years or so. It?s a toxic combination of plastic surgery, fillers and the kitchen sink. It is not limited to her face she also got ass implants several years ago and they are BAD. Whoever is doing her work these days is not the best plastic surgeon in the business. The good surgeons must have turned her down. My take: stop being shocked by it!
Madonna went to the Grammys to introduce Sam Smith and Kim Petras. Fans were ?stunned,? because (again) we?re still in the cycle of ?is that really Madonna?? It is. Madge also went to some of the post-Grammy parties too and I?m including those photos.
Maybe Madge was never going to age naturally and gracefully, but there is a huge gap between ?aging naturally? and whatever this is. As I?ve said before, I do find it sad.
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| | Madonna says her two marriages were not good ideas | | Added 598 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Madonna just released a remix album called Finally Enough Love: 50 Number Ones. And to go with it, she uploaded a Q&A video to her YouTube channel called Finally Enough Talk: 50 Questions with Madonna. Nice play on titles. I guess the Q&A is with herself because a digital voice asks her the questions and she answers. I guess props for not pretending its a real interview, unlike those celebs who get their friends to profile them. The interview was pretty varied and Madonna touched upon a variety of topics, like sex, astrology, her likes and favorites, her secret to success, and a decision she made that wasnt a good idea. Apparently, Madonna thinks both of her marriages to Sean Penn and Guy Ritchie were bad ideas.
Asked about a life decision that wasnt the best idea, Madonna assuredly said, Getting married. Both times!
The superstar was previously married to Sean Penn from 1985 to 1989 and Guy Ritchie from 2000 to 2008. One year after her second marriage ended, Madonna appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman and said, I think Id rather get run over by a train [then get married again].
While Madonnas remained friends with Penn, 62, she said her marriage to Ritchie, 53, left her feeling imprisoned in a 2015 interview with The Sun. There were times I felt incarcerated. I wasnt really allowed to be myself, the performer told the outlet at the time. Youve got to find someone who accepts who you are and is comfortable with that.
Speaking to Details magazine in 2011, Ritchie called their marriage a soap opera but said, Its definitely not something I regret The experience was ultimately very positive. I love the kids [Rocco Ritchie, 22, and David Banda, 16] and that came out of it, and I could see no other route to take.
[From People]
Most people would probably say that marrying Sean Penn is a bad idea, full stop. That relationship was literally before my time they divorced the year I was born but wasnt he completely awful to her? Like with a capital A like some other words? There were some allegations floating around in 2015, but then in 2017 Madonna said it never happened. And theyre still friends. But then Madonna said her eight-year marriage to Guy Ritchie kind of stifled her and she couldnt really be herself. Some people just dont like the institution of marriage. Madonna hasnt been married since, so that might be it. And you can regret getting married without regretting all the experiences or the relationship or the children.
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| | Madonna wore a tragic ensemble for her Times Square screening of 'Madame X' | | Added 942 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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When Madonna made a surprise appearance at the VMAs earlier this month, I think a lot of casual Madonna fans were sort of shocked by her appearance. Madonna mostly exists on social media these days, in carefully curated images which still show off the massive amount of plastic surgery she?s gotten in the past decade. But public appearances are increasingly rare, because Madonna can?t always control which unflattering photos are taken. Still, she came out to Times Square last night to support her Madame X concert-documentary film, which will air/stream on Paramount Plus next month.
As with Madonna?s appearance at the VMAs, I?m arguing with myself about what to say about Madonna lately. She?s 63 years old and she can do whatever she wants, plastic-surgery-wise or whatever. It?s not about her ?right? to get chin implants, face lifts, butt implants, etc. It?s about the sh-tty quality of the work and the energy behind it for me. Like, I just think Madonna looks and seems sad. Like she?s holding on for dear life to this idea that THIS is what she needs to do to be relevant. And it?s not at all.
The outfit is hilariously bad too it looks like she?s so desperate to dress like a kid, and then she dons the ?Fk You? tiara and walks around like her back hurts and her hip is about to give out. Good lord.
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| | Madonna's friends worry that Madge is coming across as sad, crazy & 'not dope' | | Added 4 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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In March, when we were just a few weeks into the pandemic lockdown, we talked about how Madonna was just acting bonkers. She?s been doing these ?quarantine diary? videos and saying bizarre stuff about how her friends are dying and how coronavirus is the ?great equalizer.? Again, Madonna had probably been locked down for a week at most when she started that sh-t. I haven?t paid attention to her since, but she?s absolutely still doing those bizarre videos. So? should we be concerned? Page Six says her friends are a bit concerned, and that Madonna looks crazy and out-of-touch.
On the Quarantine Diaries: ?I worshipped her, we all did,? said someone who has worked with Madonna in recent years and has ties to her inner circle. ?I still do, but I?m disappointed. It?s like she?s selling out to keep getting attention and she doesn?t know how weird she?s coming off. I keep hoping she?ll snap out of it.?
What Rosie O?Donnell thinks: Howard Stern grilled Rosie O?Donnell about her friend Madonna last week, referencing the ?milk bath? video and asking if Rosie can ever ?be honest? with Madonna and tell her she?s coming off badly. Rosie said yes, but Madonna ?won?t listen.?
Representatives for the singer did not return requests for comment.
Madonna lost her mojo in 2015, when her longtime publicist Liz Rosenberg retired: ?No one around her today can tell her anything,? said Brad Jeffries, who choreographed for Madonna for years, including the ?Like a Virgin? tour, and was also friends with Rosenberg. ?Liz could, but she?s gone. That?s why [Madonna] seems to be going so deep into the crazy right now. I defend her right to sleep with 25-year-olds because if she were a 61-year-old guy sleeping with 25-year-old women no one would blink an eye. But the way she?s doing it comes off a little desperate.?
All of her boy-toy relationships, including her current BF Ahlamalik Williams: Insiders say it?s a rebellious backlash in response to her eight-year marriage to Ritchie, with whom she shares sons Rocco, 19, and David. During her years with Ritchie, Madonna seemingly settled down: moving to the English countryside and adopting a British accent, writing children?s books and sporting a more subdued style. ?Guy Ritchie broke her,? said a former member of the Kabbalah Centre who has known Madonna for decades. ?He wouldn?t take any crap from her and she couldn?t handle it. He was the last of her alpha males.? Besides, the Kabbalah source added: ?Frankly, most guys her age who she would want, [they] want 25-year-olds themselves.?
Easing into her 60s ungracefully: ?It must be killing her to begin to feel irrelevant,? said Jeffries, who can talk on the record because he worked for Madonna before employees were forced to sign non-disclosure agreements. ?That girl was so smart, so driven, so focused, she could have been a major CEO. She had incredible powers of seduction and had more balls than any guy I ever met ? more than any world leader. But she?s lived her whole adult life in a white-hot spotlight and now it?s dimmed to a 30-watt bulb. For someone like her, that?s gotta hurt. Her idea of hell is walking into a room and people either not knowing who she is or not caring.?
Madonna is not dope: Madonna 2020 is ?so not dope,? said a source who has worked with her in recent years. She lashed out at ?body-shamers? who mocked what appeared to be her Kardashian-esque butt implants on New Year?s Eve in 2018. She came across as tone-deaf when she claimed she felt ?raped? by a 2019 New York Times profile of her even though it was written by a woman. ?Madame X,? her 14th studio album, was praised by critics but the gimmicky eye patch she donned as part of her character came off as too contrived. Her tour was well-reviewed at the start but devolved into a hot mess. There were reports of onstage tardiness and falls, clips of her crying onstage and a particularly alarming video of her hobbling up a flight of stairs with a cane.
[From Page Six]
There was a lot more in that piece. Personally, if we were just mocking Madonna for her personal life these days, I?d say that was completely unfair. But as Page Six points out, it?s the combination of everything: the out-of-touch crap during the lockdown, her crazy plastic surgery, her inability to perform during her concerts and on and on. What kills me is? the insecurity. We could always feel that Madonna had some insecurities, that she wanted to be liked and accepted, but there is a stink of desperation overall around her, and an uncomfortable, deep insecurity. She *should* feel like she has nothing more to prove. Instead, she?s trying to compete with the 20-something pop stars.
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.Blessings ? Big and Small. #covid19 #stayhome #staysafe
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| | Madonna: Covid-19 'is the great equalizer,' it doesn't 'care about how rich you are' | | Added 4 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Madonna is a famous hypochondriac, right? I?ve seen Truth or Dare and I remember all the stories about how ?health conscious? she is and how she?s deathly afraid of being sick. I think the coronavirus has thrown a lot of hypochondriacs for a loop every fear they?ve had has been realized on a global scale. And what?s the reaction? For Madonna, she?s feeling oddly calm. She filmed herself taking a bath (with rose petals) as she discussed how corona is ?the great equalizer.? Not now, Madge. Here?s her message (transcribed by Page Six):
?That?s the thing about COVID-19. It doesn?t care about how rich you are, how famous you are, how funny you are. How smart you are, where you live, how old you are, what amazing stories you can tell. It?s the great equalizer and what?s terrible about it is what?s great about it. What?s terrible about it is that it?s made us all equal in many ways, and what?s wonderful about is, is that it?s made us all equal in many ways. Like I used to say at the end of ?Human Nature? every night, if the ship goes down, we?re all going down together.?
[From Page Six]
As you can imagine, the comments were like ?dafaq? and ?actually, poor people will suffer more.? Which is true. I think Madonna was trying to say that anyone, rich or poor, can contract Covid-19 and suffer. But she wrapped up that message in typical Madonna obliviousness. Poor people are being charged thousands of dollars to get tested, if they can even get tested, while rich people have immediate access to free tests. Poor people will suffer more with the economic crash while Madonna will lose millions and still own multiple homes and still be one of the richest women in the world.
You know who else I?ve been thinking about during this self-isolation/quarantine life? Preppers. People who spent years prepping for the apocalypse with go-bags and cash stashes and bunkers and mega-supplies of soap, soup, gasoline, etc. Have we not heard a lot about preppers because they?re literally in their millionaire-prepper bunkers?
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No-Discrimination- Covid-19!! #quarantine #covid_19 #staysafe #becreative #brianeno
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