Madonna in NYC and LA

[groovyguy 63,869]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2673786/Madonna-cuts-smart-figure-black-jacket-cropped-trousers-jets-New-York-daughter-Mercy.html

Madonna cuts an unusually demure figure in black jacket and cropped trousers as she jets into NYC with daughter Mercy

 

She has become famous for unashamedly posing in various states of undress.

But Madonna cut an unusually demure figure as she jetted into New York City on Saturday. 

The 55-year-old singer sported an all-black ensemble that consisted of a blazer, ripped trousers, and a pair of matching platform shoes for her arrival with daughter Mercy.

 

 

Madonna was likely returning from a trip to Mali where she posted several Instagram shots showing construction of a school in the west African country.

The Like A Virgin hitmaker gently held onto her daughter's hand as they strolled through JFK airport alongside what appeared to be their ever-present entourage.

The singer appeared to have travelled lightly with a black purse and beige guitar case, while a belt with golden studs added a touch of glam to her outfit. 

Madonna's adopted daughter Mercy James clasped her mother's hand and kept comfortable in a floral print white tank top and black trousers.

 

 

On Saturday, Madonna took to Instagram to document an up-and-coming secondary school in Mali. 

Madonna's organization, the Ray Of Light Foundation, has teamed up with buildON to build a secondary school in Mali, the Ray Of Light website states. 

The mother-of-four's Instagram snaps proudly shared the efforts, which captured both an image of the secondary school, along with a photo of two smiling women assisting in the construction of the building.

 

 

 

[Voguerista 13,310]

Thanks loads Groovy! It's so good to see some Pap photos. Lovely and Mercy is growing up so fast!

[Voguerista 13,310]

I'm loving Madonna's hair too!

[groovyguy 63,869]

Thanks loads Groovy! It's so good to see some Pap photos. Lovely and Mercy is growing up so fast!

I was looking for a thread to post that and couldn't find the right one. So I thought we needed a thread to post all current M news.

[Voguerista 13,310]

Good idea! ;)

[Guest]

"Unusual demure figure"?  LOL! I love how these articles will make a story out of nothing. This is how she looks all the time when she's stepping out. In fact, those pants are a common wear for her. She's always wearing them. I guess she traded them for the track pants/suits she used to always wear.

[NowRadiate 3,334]

interesting that she is carrying a guitar with her. a gift from malawi? was she inspired to come up with song ideas there? if yes, can't wait to hear them.

[Guest]

interesting that she is carrying a guitar with her. a gift from malawi? was she inspired to come up with song ideas there? if yes, can't wait to hear them.

I think the assumption is that she was in Malawi. Not saying she wasn't, but it's all based on some pics she posted on IG yesterday which could have been easily sent to her.

[NowRadiate 3,334]

oh i see. i just presumed she was there. you're right, it would've generated more pics/videos, i guess.

[groovyguy 63,869]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2676664/Madonna-reminds-world-queen-pop-gets-fighting-fit.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

Battle to keep the crown! Madonna reminds the world she is queen of pop as she gets fighting fit

By CHELSEA WHITE

PUBLISHED: 09:42 EST, 1 July 2014

 

Trying to stay the reigning queen of pop is not easy.

After 30 years of holding the title, Madonna is making sure she can keep up with the new stars hitting the charts.

The 55-year-old put herself through a gruelling workout in West Hollywood, California, on Monday and proved she is still fighting fit.

Working it: Madonna enjoyed a workout in West Hollywood, California, on Monday

The Holiday singer emerged looking refreshed and in a great mood despite working up a sweat with woman half her age.

Not even looking tired, the music icon strutted her way back to her waiting car still wearing her gym clothes.

For her workout, the 55-year-old donned a pair of loose fit three-quarter Nike sweats with a tight Lycra Nike T-shirt and sweatshirt round her waist.

Her crown: the 55-year-old wore a baseball cap which said 'Reine' on it which roughly translated from French means queen
 

Going without make up, the star threw on a pair of big black sunglasses and a baseball cap with the word 'Reine' on it.

Keeping up: The star's boyfriend Timor Steffens, who is just 26, is probably another reason Madonna is so keen on staying fit

 

Perhaps making sure people knew who they were dealing with, roughly translated from French it means queen.

It also means clean and pure in Dutch which is perhaps a nod to her toyboy love Timor Steffens' native country.

Timor, who is just 26, is probably another reason Madonna is so keen on staying fit.

First seen together at the beginning of this year, things are getting much more serious between the pair.

Grazia UK reports that the backup dancer has become part of the family and has even become very close with Madonna's son Rocco.

According to the magazine, Timor is like a 'big brother' figure to the 13-year-old teaching him to dance and taking him on shopping trips.

Rocco has been teaching the backup dancer a few things as well with the 13-year-old showing him how to skateboard on ramps recently.

Besides working out and keeping up with her family and young beau, Madonna has also been very busy giving back to her hometown of Detroit, Michigan.

On Monday, the star announced she was making a long term commitment to the city including providing funding for free after-school boxing and educational mentoring to dozens of children, buying art and music supplies and boosting funding to a nonprofit that employs homeless women who create clothes for the homeless.

In a statement, the star said she was inspired by a recent visit to the city: 'A piece of my heart will always be in Detroit, and I'm humbled to be able to give back to my community.'

 

Part of the family: The dancer has become very close with the Holiday singer's son Rocco Ritchie

 

[Voguerista 13,310]

Love her track suit (next to the last pic). I want! 

[Guest]

Well, it's the DAILY MAIL, so I guess I'm not suprised they were able to drum up a whole story about how she's still staying in fit as if it's something totally new going on. LOL! At least it was positive. So I'm not complaining.

[groovyguy 63,869]

http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/andy-cohen-bravo-wish-list-hollywood-reporter_b218590

Madonna is on Andy Cohen guest wish list. Bravo’s host told The Hollywood Reporter who is on his guest wish list.

“I love music people,†Andy Cohen says. “I’d love Beyonce or Justin Timberlake.â€

"I’d still love Madonna, and I think that’ll happen."

~Andy Cohen

“The best guests for me are people who I’m actually a big fan of and very invested in,†Cohen adds.

[Voguerista 13,310]

Awesome. I hope he can get her!

[groovyguy 63,869]

M leaving the gym yesterday in L.A

[groovyguy 63,869]

Working out with her crew. Dance rehearsal???

 

http://www.justjared.com/2014/07/03/madonna-teases-new-song-messiah-listen-now/

Madonna and several of her dancers leave SoulCycle looking very sweaty after a rigorous workout on Wednesday (July 2) in West Hollywood, Calif.

The 55-year-old superstar and her crew went right from SoulCycle to a Pilates studio to keep the workout going!

That same day, Madonna teased her brand new song “Messiah†on her Instagram!

[Voguerista 13,310]

That (a dance rehearsal) would be awesome!

[Voguerista 13,310]

More pics....

 

Doubling her efforts! Madonna endures grueling back-to-back workout with spinning class followed by Pilates

[groovyguy 63,869]

http://www.tmz.com/2014/07/06/madonna-detroit-boxing-legend-tommy-hearns/

Madonna -- PRAISED BY BOXING LEGEND... Youth Gym Is HUGE For Detroit!

Madonna is being hailed as a HERO in the boxing community ... so says boxing Hall of Famer Tommy "The Hitman" Hearns who's praising the singer for saving a Detroit boxing gym 

FYI -- Madge recently returned from a trip to Detroit and announced she'd be making "significant" donations to 3 organizations ... including the Downtown Youth Boxing Gym. 

Madonna says she was super-impressed with the programs at the gym that have helped it achieve a 100% graduation rate.  Recently, the gym's main building was condemned ... so, Madge's donation will allow the place to make renovations and continue to operate.  

Now, Hearns -- who grew up in Detroit -- tells TMZ Sports Madonna's generosity will have a HUGE impact with young boxers and the community as a whole. 

"I think it's awesome for her to help, being as big as she is," Hearns says ... "The people who get the help she provides will probably shed tears."

In fact, Hearns says he hopes Madonna's philanthropy will inspire other successful Detroit natives to give back -- "They should do as much as they can. It's where they came from, and it's not a great situation right now."

 

[Voguerista 13,310]

So cool^ 

[Fighter 28,888]

guys I don't think we need a thread for all the news. this section of the forum is already for that. would be better to create a topic for each individual piece of news.

[groovyguy 63,869]

Madonna out and about in Los Angeles: 2 July 2014 - More Pictures

 

 

[groovyguy 63,869]

guys I don't think we need a thread for all the news. this section of the forum is already for that. would be better to create a topic for each individual piece of news.

The thread title is now changed to Madonna in NY and LA.

[xavier 5,226]

guys I don't think we need a thread for all the news. this section of the forum is already for that. would be better to create a topic for each individual piece of news.

Agree.

[groovyguy 63,869]

http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/a-group-that-madonna-and-the-dalai-lama-unwittingly-joined-569545

A Group That Madonna and the Dalai Lama Unwittingly Joined

New York:  For years, Jerry Seinfeld and Joan Rivers, and as many as 6,914 other customers, have never claimed refunds due them from Bergdorf's. General Motors has been in hock to Rupert Murdoch for nearly a decade. Russia's mission to the United Nations is still hoarding unredeemed gift certificates from BJ's Wholesale Club. 

 

Madonna has never cashed at least two paychecks from the Walt Disney Co. and Warner Music. "So much for her being called the Material Girl!" Madonna's publicist, Liz Rosenberg, said. 

These are just a few names culled from as many as 31 million owners of accounts held by New York state as unclaimed property - accounts surrendered by banks, insurers, utility companies and others that said they had tried but failed to find the rightful owners of deposits, dividend checks, back wages, rebates and other forgotten funds, which have grown to a record $13.3 billion. 

More than $700 million from abandoned and dormant accounts flooded into the state in the past year alone. 

The potential windfall from misplaced money stretches well beyond New York. Nationwide, states hold more than $62 billion - more than the individual general fund budget of all but California. The District of Columbia's unclaimed property database even includes a "Barrack Obama at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave." 

"Is this your name?" the office's website asks, when the search result is clicked. "Do you live or have you lived at the address listed?" "If you can answer yes," you may be able to claim the more than $100 due you from General Electric. 

In New York, where the state comptroller, Thomas P. DiNapoli, returned $422 million to owners last year, the unclaimed property fund has been around since the 1940s. Five years ago it stood at $9.9 billion, and its remarkable growth is a reminder of people's laxity (or the vicissitudes of the postal system), the redefinition of what constitutes a trifling amount of money and the fact that businesses are much more dogged in hounding deadbeats than in tracking down creditors. 

After all, if they cannot find Madonna and President Barack Obama, imagine how hard they will look for you. 

Generally, banks, insurers and other companies and government agencies are supposed to try to notify account holders by mail, then publish their names in local newspapers, before surrendering dormant accounts after two to five years to the comptroller's office, which publicizes the fund online and at public events like county fairs. 
The money can be claimed without charge at any time, although most ends up transferred to the state's general fund. 

"They're required to make an effort," DiNapoli said of the institutions that report them. "I guess it's fair to say it's not the most efficient way to recover the money." 

In New York alone, the number of owners of unclaimed accounts is staggering: at last count, 471,181 reported by Metropolitan Life, 457,441 by the state's own Department of Taxation and Finance, 109,721 by Verizon Wireless, 83,666 by Consolidated Edison, 33,745 by PayPal, 22,452 by Tiffany & Co. and 19,165 by Amway, the home-care products marketer, including 396 unredeemed gift certificates that appear to belong to a Long Island couple, Corey and Dolores Jones. 

"I own an independent distribution through Amway," Corey Jones said, adding that he intended to find out why so many gift certificates in the couple's name were unclaimed. 

Unclaimed accounts include wages, safe deposit box contents, estate proceeds, rebates, and utility and rent security deposits. 

They are often unclaimed because people die, move without leaving a forwarding address, neglect to claim a final paycheck or forget about a security deposit they paid or even a bank account they opened. 

DiNapoli himself almost lost one of those, a savings account he opened as a high school student and has kept for sentimental reasons. 

While half the accounts hold less than $100, the biggest individual payout, in 2008, was $4 million from a stock brokerage account. The largest single account that remains unclaimed is worth $1.7 million. In that case, the comptroller's office took the unusual step of trying to find the owner, but it failed. Before paying a claim, the state verifies that the claimant's name, address and Social Security number match the original owner's. 

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is not on the list, but his father and some siblings are, as are the New York state and city budget directors. So is Speaker Sheldon Silver of the state Assembly, and Dean G. Skelos, the New York Senate Republican leader along with more than one indicted state legislator. 

Michael B. Mukasey, who served as attorney general under President George W. Bush, is still owed a paycheck from Columbia Law School, where he taught until 2007. "One of the things I taught," Mukasey recalled a bit sheepishly, "was the importance of keeping track of things in preparing for trial." 

Other accounts are listed in the names of Sean J. Combs; Bill and Hillary Clinton; the Rev. Al Sharpton; Bernard L. Madoff's sons; the Dalai Lama; Bruce Springsteen; Anna Wintour of Vogue (an American Express and a Bergdorf's credit); William Thompson, a former city comptroller and mayoral candidate (the balance on a gift certificate for golf clubs); and Domenico Cefalu, who has been identified as head of the Gambino crime family (a Verizon Wireless refund). 

The Donald J. Trump does not appear, but companies associated with him do, prompting Allen Weisselberg, the Trump Organization's chief financial officer, to remark: "We get checks in the mail; they get processed no matter how big they are. We don't overlook checks. We take every check seriously." 

In contrast, when asked about some Rockefeller-named accounts, Fraser P. Seitel, a family spokesman, said: "The estates of both Nelson and Laurance did an exhaustive unclaimed property search at the time of their deaths. These reported outstanding claims are probably just small accounts, which most likely would return the estates less money than they'd have to pay out for the legal time involved in reclaiming them." 

However, the writer Tom Wolfe was ecstatic when he was informed that he had three unexpected debtors: Best Buy, the state of Georgia and The New York Times Co. (apparently a paycheck from the 1980s). 

"For years I have scanned those four-point-type lists of uncashed checks and come up empty," Wolfe said. "Now, a decade after I give up the search, in the proud mood of someone's who's finally turned real after a fool's lifetime playing the numbers, my number comes up, and I'm oblivious of it. Makes me feel like a kid again." 

Oliver Sacks, the sometimes absent-minded neurology professor and author, is owed an insurance refund. "Actually some years ago, I forbade Oliver opening the mail himself, as I used to find too many checks he overlooked in the discarded envelopes," his assistant, Kate Edgar, said. "He's fundamentally not that interested in money, and I suppose if Empire, whoever they are, owe him money, it's my fault." 

Public agencies, from villages to the United Nations, are also owed money. New York City regularly reviews the list and claimed almost $1 million last year, but many agencies and jurisdictions are much less diligent; there are 78 unclaimed accounts held in the name of the Bronx county clerk, and 53 for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. 

Despite New York's reputation as a high-tax state, sometimes the government can't even give money away. Among those with unclaimed accounts is the conservative commentator Ann Coulter, who has described the state, which owes her money, as a "Pottersville" - the evil twin of Bedford Falls from "It's a Wonderful Life." 

Alluding to the investigation of missing emails from an Internal Revenue Service official whom Republicans have accused of improper handling of conservative groups' applications for tax-exempt status, Coulter said, "I think the IRS owes me money, too, but apparently some of their records were lost."