Madonna's Appearance On Oprah's Surprise Spectacular Show

Madonna's Appearance On Oprah's Surprise Spectacular Show 

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Madonna Appoints Rihanna as the New Face of Vita Coco

Rihanna has been announced as the latest addition to promote the coconut water brand Vita Coco's growing roster of pop star endorsers.

The singer joins investors Madonna and Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis, both of whom are staunch advocates of the brand.

Beginning this summer, the red-coiffed 'California King Bed' singer will take part in a national advertising campaign for the product -- also noted as a hangover helper -- of which she claims to be quite a fan.

"I love Vita Coco! It's real coconut water from hand-picked coconuts," Rihanna said in a press release announcing the partnership. "It's delicious and so good for you!"

"Rihanna is a natural fit for the Vita Coco brand and I'm so happy to have her on the team," Madonna said of her endorsement.

Founded in 2004, and based in New York City, Vita Coco is the best-selling fresh coconut water brand, sold by over 20,000 retailers across the country.

Madonna and Kiedis were announced as minority investors in the product in early 2010, alongside actors Matthew McConaughey and Demi Moore.

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Madonna's Plan to Build Malawi School Falls Apart

 

A charity launched by Madonna is floundering after nearly $4 million was spent, with little to show for it, on plans to build a school in the impoverished African nation of Malawi.

Madonna has made regular visits to the country for her Raising Malawi foundation, to which she gave $11 million; she also adopted her youngest children David and Mercy in Malawi.

But now, the pop star's dream of building a $15 million school to educate approximately 400 girls has officially collapsed, according to the New York Times.

"A thoughtful decision has been made to discontinue plans for the Raising Malawi Academy for Girls, as it was originally conceived," Michael Berg said Thursday in an email to donors who supported the project. Berg is co-director of Los Angeles' Kabbalah Centre, and co-founder of Raising Malawi.

The foundation's board of directors has been replaced by Madonna and her manager, who join a newly formed "caretaker board."

Concerns of financial mismanagement arose in recent months. Cars, golf memberships, and a chauffeur for the school's director were described by auditors as "outlandish" wastes of money. The charity's former executive director, Tracy Anderson (boyfriend of Madonna's personal trainer), left Raising Malawi in October amid criticism of his management.

In a statement Thursday, Madonna said: "There's a real education crisis in Malawi....67 percent of girls don't go to secondary school, and this is simply unacceptable. Our team is going to work hard to address this in every way we can." In acknowledgment of her charity's failings, she said, "I'm frustrated that our education work has not moved forward in a faster way."

Government authorities in Malawi already displaced hundreds of locals from Chinkhota village, near the capitol city of Lilongwe, to accommodate construction of the school. Madonna's camp has yet to explain why she failed to act earlier on the crisis within her organization, which has raised $18 million so far. The Times was told Madonna was directing a movie about British royals, and therefore unavailable for an interview about the latest Raising Malawi news.

Meanwhile, the charity insists that Raising Malawi will not disband, but will redirect how it uses funds to help the poor in Malawi.

The Global Philanthropy Group says it advised Madonna months ago that millions were being ineffectively spent by her charity, and suggested she finance existing education programs instead of trying to launch a new school.

Trevor Neilson of the Global Philanthropy Group studied Raising Malawi's mistakes and told the Times, "Despite $3.8 million having been spent....the project has not broken ground, there was no title to the land and there was, over all, a startling lack of accountability on the part of the management team in Malawi and the management team in the United States." He added, "We have yet to determine exactly what happened to all of that $3.8 million. We have not accounted for all the funds that were used."

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Madonna (Express Yourself International Download Day) Teaser 1 + 2

 

Madonna (Express Yourself International Download Day)  Teaser 1 + 2 

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Housebreaking Madonna in London during the funeral of her grandmother

 

Madonna's guards managed to catch a person while trying to collect some Accessories, after storming home in the British capital London.

Has put forward Grzegorz Matlock, 29 years old, a land by the guard house, which consists of ten rooms, equipped with surveillance cameras and security in all its parts.

The magazine reported that The Sun Matlock was able to sneak into the house, which equals $ 10 million, having smashed a window, while the Madonna in the United States after the death of her grandmother.

The guards said the police officers who arrested Matlock, of Polish origin, he had already been chased and attacked by the singer.

For their part, regarded the police that what happened is very serious; as it was supposed to have a singer such as Madonna guarding impregnable, commensurate with its status as a pop singer months in the world.

The Madonna, 52 years old, had escorted her two children to look at the last farewell to her grandmother, Elsie Fortin Mia, who died last week at the age of 99 years.

And not particularly lovable pop star to her grandmother who raised her since she was five years old, with five brothers, after the death of their mother's cancer. 

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Madonna very Happy About Guy Ritchie Baby News

 

For all the flak Madonna occasionally takes for being a bit of an ice queen, the singer doesn't hold grudges. That's why she was delighted to hear that her ex-husband, director Guy Ritchie, 42, has

officially moved on and will be starting a family with his model girlfriend, Jacqui Ainsley, 29.

Friends of the singer tell us that Madonna moved on from her relationship with Ritchie years ago, from an emotional standpoint, so she is happy that he is finally settling down and getting serious.

Ritchie and Madonna share custody of their biological son Rocco, 10, and adopted son David Banda, 5. They divorced in 2008. The split was amicable, and Ritchie said in 2009 that he still had warm and fuzzy feelings for his ex-wife.

"And, of course, here you go: I still love her," he told Esquire. "She's a manifester, if there ever was one. First-rate manifester. Madonna makes things happen. Put Madonna up against any 23-year-old, she'll outwork them, outdance them, outperform them."

Since their split, Madonna has squired a slew of much younger men around the globe, among them, a pair of 24-year olds, Brahim Zaibat and Jesus Luz.

Ritchie and Ainsley have been seeing one another for about a year, and the British press is reporting that they plan to marry within the next 12 months. No word on whether Madge will be invited to the ceremony. 

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Madonna's adoptive daughter of the family want to sue the Queen of Pop

The girl's family plans to sue the African Mercy American singer Madonna; adopted by the Queen of Pop Summer 2009.



According to news reports that her family's Mercy - five years - is furious at Madonna; because it promised the family not to cut off contact with the girl but did not do so.

The family said Mercy in Malawi: The Madonna and promised to allow them to see the baby every now and then, but have never done this, although she took Mercy to Malawi twice since it was adopted.

Mercy's mother was aged 16, died after the birth of her daughter five days. The Jeddah sponsored child and their relatives after death.

Said Amy Caneca director of civilian relief: The family of Mercy have resorted to the organization for help.

The Caneca "met with Mercy's family with us several times and they feel very sad; because they do not see Mercy not call them, as they hope to return to Malawi and live among them, after that get bigger."

But expert opinion that the chance of the family is weak; because what they had received from Madonna was just verbal promises by without writing anything.

The Madonna have two sons, Lourdes -14 years - Rocco - ten years - and it educates David - six years - her son's adoptive

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Madonna and new boyfriend Algerian Muslim and make them smaller to 28 years

Madonna and Ibrahim Zibat in a romantic dinner in London

Surprised the Queen of Pop Madonna (52 years), the artistic scene Bastemtalla a romantic dinner

with her lover, the new dance "breakdance" a young French-Algerian Zibat Ibrahim (24 years) in a restaurant in London, dressed in a classic, although it is known for always adhering to the sporty look .

The newspaper "Daily Mail" Britain Wednesday, December 22 / December of this that after dinner I left Madonna and her lover restaurant "and will be followed" in London, each unit; to avoid exposure to shoot together, pointing out that both of them behind his car on their way home.

The newspaper said Madonna - than usual - did not show any part of her body, according to pictures taken during her exit from the restaurant; where wearing a long coat, and black stockings, and a scarf around her neck.

And picked up Madonna and Zibat for the first time in September during the launch of one of Madonna's fashion lines in New York; where the dance with her at the ceremony, after which time it was not even occur Zibat about his relationship with American pop star famous.

He said the young man of Algerian origin to the magazine "Grazia Grazia" French dealing with celebrities and the world of fashion: "The Madonna, like any woman in the world, and of course, is an exceptional artist and famous in the whole world, but above all a woman."

And away from the restaurant "and will be followed" in London; still Ibrahim Zibat dancers live in an apartment in Lyon, France, but perhaps because the restaurant, which is a companion to one of the hotels provide meals and French, the French dancer to make it feel at home. According to a British newspaper.

Ibrahim, and he knows the financial benefit gained by the former friend Madonna viewer Brazilian Luz, who became paid two thousand pounds sterling per night in the "DJ", or viewer fashion fashion houses such as "Dhei and Gabbana."

He ruled out Zibat be seeking to exploit its relationship with the World Balmatarbp to achieve personal interests, saying - according to his statements to Grazia magazine - it is trying to help disadvantaged children, and to live his life normally.

Committed to pray .. Not sterile alcohol

Zibat and his 3 brothers, their mother emigrated French Patricia Vidal to France after the Algerian separated from her husband. Fidel and that smaller Madonna about 8 years objected to the relationship with her son Balmatarbp World said: "Madonna was the star of a famous when I was in school, but Abraham does not know the thing that got himself in it, their strange situation fully."

She added: "It is not going between them, especially as a true Muslim Ibrahim, and faith are important in his life, and I am not satisfied with his life with non-Muslim woman. Madonna and the Kabbalah Jewish sect follow the trend of the Jewish mystic."

She or Ibrahim, saying: "The son, pray 5 times a day, do not drink alcohol or cigarettes, things that are totally incompatible with the style hedonism experienced by Madonna." The mother to another aspect of the difference between the lover; where that her son has not mastered the English language as Madonna can not speak any French word.

The following pictures published by British newspaper the Daily Mail of Madonna and Zibat while leaving the dinner party individually, and pictures of Zibat dance, as well as a picture of his mother, Patricia Vida

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