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Funny how pics are readily available but there's never any to support the claims that she attends Kylie's shows
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Does that mean some people here will suddenly change their tune about GaGa because the Queen likes her? Typical internet gays!
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@ that photo getting retouched even more
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Are you serious? I didn't know that, I always thought he didn't even come off so badly on the forums, so this surprises me.
He'll post normally and calmly on a forum for awhile so people are more likely to believe his fiction later on. Awhile ago he would also register Mariah/Prince/Bruce Springsteen/MJ fanatic troll accounts that would trash Madonna and praise those artists. He would also have arguments with himself.
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Isn't that Phillymonster from MTribe and MLicious...? Last week he made a fake article about Jesus cougaring up Liz Smith. This week it's about America Ferrera.
I haven't been to those forums in awhile but yes that's him.
He's very prolific. He goes on many, MANY forums, blogs and the comments section of major news sites spreading fake Madonna articles and rumors he made up himself. This has been going on for a long time. I remember him doing this on the AOL Madonna board back in the early 00s. He used to post fake stuff here along time ago too until we got rid of him. When he's confronted he can never solidly prove any of his info or uses the lame excuse that he can't reveal his source. This guy has no credibility. ALL of his "exclusive" info turns out to be false. This guy is a nut with too much time on his hands. I guess he gets a thrill out of fooling people online and when the media ocasionally reports the fiction he spread around everywhere. -
The examiner is not a reputable site. Anyone can go on there and publish whatever articles they like. Those articles are written by "Daryl D". He's that loon ihateoreilly from madonnamad and would go around publishing fake stories about Madonna on a ton of forums and blogs. He was also behind that entire Team Lamb thing.
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i bet she hurt she tail bone!
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Ya keep it real Miss Cleo!
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Photographer denies Madonna's claim that he played a role in Madge's fall from horse in Hamptons
BY Henrick Karoliszyn, George Rush and Rich Schapiro
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Monday, April 20th 2009, 4:00 AM
Madonna at Atlantic Ave. Beach in Amagansett on Sunday, a day after her tumble.
Madonna appeared physically unhurt Sunday, but her weekend horseback tumble in the Hamptons left her ego bruised.
"Are you the guys that spooked my horse?" the Material Mom asked as she was approached on the beach, where she relaxed in a bizarre ensemble that included a quilted, black Chanel jacket, baggy turquoise sweatpants and a fedora.
Assured that she was not looking at the paparazzi who may have startled her horse at celeb shutterbug Steven Klein's farm, Madonna politely posed for pictures outside the Atlantic Double Dunes beach in Amagansett.
The 50-year-old pop star was asked how she was doing after a night recuperating at pal Gwyneth Paltrow's estate.
"Better," she replied.
Madonna's camp claims her prior encounter with a photographer didn't go quite so nicely.
Spokeswoman Liz Rosenberg claimed her superstar client was thrown when a photog jumped out of a patch of bushes and startled her horse, sending her flying.
But freelance photographer Thomas Hinton claims he played no role in Madonna's mishap - a position supported by the Southampton Village Police Department.
Hinton told The News he shot some frames of Madonna riding her horse about 3:50 p.m. Saturday, but took off soon after because he didn't have a good vantage point.
Hinton returned more than 40 minutes later when he got tipped off that Madonna had had an accident, he says.
"I arrived more than 10 minutes after she fell, and I was shooting from the street," Hinton said. "I don't know what [Rosenberg] is talking about."
Madonna, who was born in Bay City, Mich., and once worked at a Dunkin' Donuts, has taken pains to reinvent herself as a high-class jodhpur-wearing British countrywoman.
After buying Ashcombe, a 1,200-acre estate in Wiltshire, she had an indoor riding arena built there.
Following a rib-cracking fall in 2005, she got back in the saddle and stepped up her lessons.
Friends say ex-husband Guy Ritchie's lack of support after that accident was one of the many issues responsible for their eventual split.
Madonna's recent decision to relocate to New York hasn't dampened her enthusiasm for becoming an accomplished equestrian.
Last month, she entered a horse competition in Florida under a pseudonym, according to sources. Some suspect she may be reluctant to admit she again lost control of the reins, preferring to blame the paparazzi.
Madonna's spill was the talk yesterday of the Hamptons, the glitzy summer playground of the rich and famous.
Not all of its celebrity inhabitants had gotten the news.
Singer Billy Joel, who has had well-chronicled problems with car accidents, said four-legged modes of transport are even riskier.
"Madonna fell off a horse?" said a shocked Joel inside his Sag Harbor garage. "She should stay off of those horses. This isn't the Wild West."
rschapiro@nydailynews.com
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the nypost is saying there were no photographers while it happened and they happen to be the only press that publish photos of before and after the incident, which means one of their photo agencies was there and caused the accident and they lie about it by saying no photographers were there.
Fucking pricks! She better sue them! The photographer, photo agency, and the NY Pest!
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Watch out Janet!
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Madonna's Mercy in hiding as furious family fight to keep father away
By Barbara Jones
Last updated at 10:33 PM on 11th April 2009
Out of sight: Madonna has ordered staff to 'shield' Mercy from her father James Kambewa
Sudden interest: Mercy has never met her natural father, who abandoned her mother when she was pregnant
Natural father: James Kambewa
Mercy James, the four-year-old girl from Malawi who Madonna is hoping to adopt, has gone into hiding on the singer’s orders after the girl’s father came forward, saying he wanted them to be reunited.
Staff at the Kondanani children’s home, where Mercy has been living, said Madonna had told them to shield the child from James Kambewa, who is believed to have spent the past week attempting a reunion with his daughter.
Mercy is believed to have gone to a secret location with a carer from the orphanage.
Madonna, who is said to be distraught at having to leave Mercy in the country after her adoption application failed, has instructed lawyers to ‘do everything possible’ to appeal against the judgment.
The case will be heard after Malawi’s Easter break, which ends on April 20.
Meanwhile, the appearance of 24-year-old Kambewa has outraged Mercy’s family.
Her grandfather Saxon Maunde, a poor farmer who travelled from his remote rural home to Kondanani on Friday, recalled how Kambewa had fled the town of Thwonde after his daughter Mwandida, a 15-year-old schoolgirl, became pregnant.
Mr Maunde said: ‘We cannot believe this boy is coming forward like this. We are very suspicious of his reasons, especially as he has caused our family so much heartbreak in the past.
‘When my precious daughter became pregnant we were so disappointed with her. She had been doing well at school and we had to take her away from her studies.
‘There was disgrace for us in the pregnancy, but this boy could have made things acceptable by marrying her and taking responsibility.
‘Instead, he denied he was the father. He was a coward who ran away.
'When our daughter died after Mercy was born, this wretched boy sent no message of condolence. He is the last person we want to see now'
Kambewa is now living in Blantyre, the country’s second-largest town, where he works as a night watchman. His paternity claim has been attacked by representatives for Madonna.
Alan Chinula, the singer’s lawyer in Malawi, said: ‘We are more determined than ever to persuade the courts to let Madonna adopt Mercy. We have heard that a young man is claiming he is her father and wants the child, but he has not contacted us and we will not entertain his claims.
‘As the father of an illegitimate child he has few rights and in our culture he is considered an outcast in society.’
Simon Chisale, Mercy’s legal guardian and director of Malawi’s Ministry of Women and Child Development, said: ‘I have spoken to the girl’s immediate family and they want nothing to do with this James Kambewa.
‘He has not approached me and I understand he has in the past rejected this child.’
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Fuck, work it bitch!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96U3AI75rz8
M part start at 05:24
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAgwlXGO_uA
I LOVE THIS WOMAN
Jane Velez-Mitchell. I hereby declare her an official MadonnaNation ICON -
But his dad John claimed Guy would be" very relieved" by the court ruling - made because Madonna had not lived in Malawi for at least 18 months before the case.
John, 78, of Kensington, west London, said:" When they were together he was never in favour of adopting a second child - which caused tensions.
" He made it clear he was happy with the family he had."
M & Guy aren't married anymore ... why do do they keep talking to this blabbermouth old man all the time?!
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We find dad of tot Mercy James, who Madonna wants to adopt
WORLD EXCLUSIVE by Thomas Chafunya in Malawi and Nick Owens 4/04/2009
And James Kambewa warns the pop star 'hands off I'm going to raise her'
Madonna's hopes of adopting “orphan” Mercy James were dealt another major blow last night when the Sunday Mirror tracked down a man who claims to be the child’s long-lost father.
James Kambewa, speaking exclusively to our reporter, insisted: “She is my daughter and I want her to live with me.”
Authorities in Malawi had always believed the three-year-old was an orphan and had failed to find her father. But we traced him to a remote village 100 miles from the capital Lilongwe where Mercy is being cared for in a luxury hotel.
Now, 24-year-old James is determined to prove he is the biological dad by taking a DNA test – and is desperate to meet his daughter for the first time.
In a bombshell interview James told how he was made to believe Mercy had died along with her mother during childbirth.
He is demanding to meet Madonna face-to-face after discovering she is trying to adopt three-year-old Mercy. And James will tell the superstar that his daughter must remain in Malawi with him.
Security guard James, 24, said: “Discovering my daughter is alive is a miracle. Now I call on all my countrymen to help me have my child. I will take a DNA test and appear in court to prove Mercy is my child. I am willing to do whatever it takes.”
He added: “I bear no grudge against Madonna. But I am Mercy’s father and I want her to stay with me. God will take care of us.”
His determination to care for his daughter leaves Madonna’s hopes of adopting the child in tatters.
The 50-year-old singer was planning to appeal last week’s shock decision by Malawian judge Esme Chombo to block her adoption of Mercy.
The adoption application was thrown out on the grounds that prospective parents must be resident in Malawi for 18 to 24 months before adopting. Authorities in Malawi had always believed both Mercy’s mother and father had died.
But the Sunday Mirror can reveal that in the last 48 hours Madonna’s aides have been told of James’s claims to be Mercy’s dad and asked to meet him.
However, he will tell the star he wants her to end her bid to adopt Mercy. “I will tell her that I have heard about her good work but Mercy has a father now.
“I will say she is welcome to come and see Mercy whenever she likes. But I will make it plain that my daughter will be staying in Malawi with me.”
And revealing what he will say when he is finally reunited with Mercy, James said: “When I meet her I will say, ‘Lord forgive me for abandoning you’.
“There is no substitute for a parent’s love and I want to care for her. I have not had the chance before. But now I want to be a good father to my daughter.”
James was just 21 and Mercy’s mum 15 when she fell pregnant. Being young and without money, he panicked and after a series of family rows he fled – a decision he now regrets.
We tracked James down after Mercy’s grandmother Che Maunde, who is opposed to the adoption, passed on his name.
It led our investigators to a remote village 100 miles from Lilongwe, in east Malawi where James works as a security guard earning £100 a year.
In a moving interview, James told how weeks earlier he had learned his daughter was alive at the Kondanani Children’s Orphanage – and Madonna wanted to adopt her.
He said: “I don’t want her to live with Madonna, I want her to be with me. Until now everyone thought Mercy had no father but she has, and I will do anything to prove to the courts that I am her dad and that she should remain with me.”
James claims that he met Mercy’s mum Mwandida four years ago when he moved 100 miles from his native remote village Salima to Zomba, in southern Malawi.
Then aged 21, he was introduced to Mwandida at a market place by friends and they began a relationship. Mwandida fell pregnant aged 15 and it led to a series of rows with her family.
They were furious Mwandida and James had been so irresponsible. Mwandida’s mum Che Maunde was particularly angry and demanded the pair marry if they wanted to raise the child together.
James denied being responsible and it led to a furious final bust which saw him return to Salima.
James said: “I was afraid when Mwandida became pregnant that I wouldn’t be able to care for the baby and her mum so I denied responsibility. I was young and foolish and I shouldn’t have acted in that way. I wish I hadn’t.”
Days after Mercy was born on January 26, 2006 James was told by a friend who was still in touch with Mwandida’s family that she had died giving birth. The friend said he heard that her baby had died too.
James said: “There were so many conflicting messages regarding what had happened to the baby that I didn’t know what to believe. But many people told me both Mercy and Mwandida had died so I thought this was the case.”
Months later James’s best friend Paul Likaomba, who lived in a village near Mwandida’s relatives, said he understood Mercy was alive and in an orphanage.
James said: “I prayed long and hard to find the courage to find her. But in Malawi many children are in orphanages.
“I am not a rich man and I lived a long way from Mercy. I was worried. I’d have had to take months away from work to find her and I couldn’t afford to leave my job.”
James said he was stunned when he was told that the child Madonna was trying to adopt was in fact his daughter.
He added: “All of a sudden I realised the daughter I believed was dead was alive and that she might be taken away from me forever.
“When I found out she had been living in an orphanage I felt bad because I had rejected her. I realised I should have done more to be there for her and to be a father to her.
“But now I feel like I have been given a second chance and I will not let Mercy down again. I can’t afford to abandon her twice.”
As James made his extraordinary claim, Mercy was believed to be holed up at Kumbali Lodge, the exclusive location where Madonna and her three children have been staying in Malawi. She is thought to have bonded well with Madonna’s kids, Lourdes, 12, Rocco, eight and three-year-old David Banda, whom the star adopted in Malawi last year.
“We’re all in shock over this,” said a Malawi official. “Madonna’s children, especially Lourdes, were getting used to her.”
The source added that Madonna has instructed her staff not to break the news of the unexpected court decision to the children. The singer had her private jet on standby yesterday to fly out of Malawi. But she is now expected to stay on to try to win custody of Mercy. Sources say the fact James has come forward could even be good news for Madonna.
One source said: “If Madonna can persuade Mercy’s father that she will have a better life with her than in Malawi then perhaps the courts will take a different view.”
And James’s sister Alice Bandawe is believed to support Madonna’s bid for adoption, saying the child would have a better life with the multi-millionairess.
Meanwhile, Madonna yesterday lodged an official appeal in Malawi’s Supreme Court of Appeal against Friday’s High Court decision to block the adoption. Madonna’s lawyer Alan Chinula said: “I have just filed notice for the appeal and we are working on our grounds for this.”
The Malawian court decision stunned Madonna. The rule on having to live in Malawi for at least 18 months was waived when she adopted David Banda in 2006 when she was married to film director Guy Ritchie.
And it had been expected the adoption of Mercy would go equally as smoothly. But Judge Chombo was critical of celebrity adoptions and said ignoring the residency rules could lead to child-trafficking.
Throwing out the application she said: “Anyone could come to Malawi and quickly arrange for an adoption that might have grave consequences on the very children the law seeks to protect.”
Last night Madonna went ahead with a party at her luxury Malawian lodge to help her over the disappointment. Traditional dancers were seen arriving and government officials and people working for the Raising Malawi charity were invited.
news@sundaymirror.co.uk
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Madonna prepares party in Malawi
By Associated Press
Saturday, April 4, 2009 - Added 6h ago
LILONGWE, Malawi — Madonna is apparently throwing a party in Malawi in a bid to swallow her disappointment that a judge rejected her application to adopt a young orphan.
Traditional dancers have arrived at the luxury lodge where the pop diva is staying, as well as government officials and members of staff of her Raising Malawi charity.
Amid strict security, there was no immediate confirmation on whether it was a farewell party.
Air traffic control authorities granted clearance for Madonna’s jet to depart Saturday but the star stayed in the lodge all day. Her lawyer has said she will appeal against Friday’s judgment that she could not adopt a 3-year-old girl because she had not been resident in Malawi.
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Playa Hatin' on Madonna
Earl Ofari Hutchinson
Political Analyst and Social Issues Commentator
Posted April 4, 2009 | 01:23 PM (EST)
Let's cut the bull. The issue is not Mercy James. That's the four year old Malawian orphan girl who Madonna wants to adopt. The issue is Madonna. Whether their motive is revulsion, disgust, secret wish fulfillment, sexism, or just plain, garden variety envy, legions just flat out loathe Madonna. Or in the street vernacular, there's a thriving growth industry in playa hatin' on Madonna.
This writer became painfully aware of that after my piece "Madonna Deserves Cheers not Jeers for casting the ugly glare on Africa's adoption misery" hit the web. The calls, letters, emails, and shots from Madonna's sex book, and her onstage at times sado-masochistic antics poured in. The idea was to remind me that Madonna is an ego maniacal, crotch grabbing, whacked out onstage porno and fast buck exhibitionist who no one with a shred of decency could possibly think could be a fit mother, especially a fit mother to a black kid.
The rants were against me, Madonna, and those Malawians who cheered Madonna; which by the way as every poll and survey has shown is just about everyone in Malawi from top officials down to the beggar on the street to Mercy's grandparents, relatives and caregivers. They all applaud Madonna for taking a personal and humanitarian interest in Malawi's one million orphans.
The Madonna playa haters are absolutely unfazed by the millions of dollars that she has raised for her Raise Malawi organization. They pooh pooh the international attention that she's brought to a country that ranks near dead last on nearly every social and economic measure for developing countries. This is a country which nearly all the Madonna loathers thought was another way of saying Malarky, hadn't heard of and couldn't find on a map before Madonna tossed the spotlight on the dire poverty in the country. The haters air brush off Madonna's plans to bankroll a school for orphan girls in the country.
They wave away the reminder that Madonna, outside of President Obama, is the most over-exposed celebrity on the planet and hardly needs to snatch away an African orphan to get some cheap pub. They turn the tinniest ear to this rejoinder; OK, so other than yap that Madonna has turned Africa into what the hater's brand a rich closet bigotted white woman's plaything, have you contributed money, written letters to elected officials, volunteered to work with relief agencies, or tried to sponsor an African orphan?
Madonna's brash, sassy, and high energy in your face style and persona has long sent the clear message that she was her own woman. She turned sensuality into a badge of fierce independence and pride, the trademark of defiance.This has always sent the pack of Madonna haters spinning into orbit. The issue is not and never has been Madonna and Malawi's orphans. The issue is and always will be Madonna. It's a playa hater's delight.
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DEFENDING Madonna
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g00xiXdebK0
Love her.
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Bitter dried-up CUNT Andrea Peyser at it again
Celebutard of the Week: Madonna
by Andrea Peyser
This is an emergency Madonna update, a warning that the one-time Material Girl has turned from a bra-baring, Britney-slurping, intercourse-simulating extrovert into a greedy baby-collector. At mid-life, an unmarried Madonna is, right now, in the African nation of Malawi, choosing a matched child to go along with the tot she already purchased from the African nation like so much luggage, David Banda.
This is why Madonna is my Celebutard of the Week, in keeping with my book, “Celebutards: the Hollywood Hacks, Limousine Liberals and Pandering Politicians Who Are Destroying America,” (Kensington).
Madonna is asking a judge to let her adopt 4-year-old Mercy James, a child who, like David, has a biological father but no mother. Her grandmother was incensed.
“Why doesn’t the singer pick other children?’’ fumed Lucy Chekechiwa to the Sun newspaper in London.
“It is stealing. I want to go to court. I won’t let her go.’’
It seems a repeat of her earlier adoption. The granny fumed, but Madonna still plucked the child from his home and took temporary custody. On her own turf, the adoption was a done deal. She also broke Malawi’s adoption laws, which prevent prospective parents from getting their hands on children without first living in the country for 18 months. Technicalities.
One has long wondered if Madge is fit to raise a house plant, let alone a child.
Her vegetarian diet, free of wicked dairy products, should be enough to preclude her from raising ice-cream-deprived kids. It comes with great remorse that her ever-expanding brood, which includes Lourdes, 12; Rocco, 8; and little David, 3; will never, at least in childhood, taste the summer staple.
But in the diet-crazed Celebutard world, this is par for the course — Gwyneth Paltrow gets to keep her little ones even after publicly cleaning out her gastrointestinal tract. Money buys anything. Including flesh. TV is also banned in the house of Madonna, 50, which might be a blessing; the kids are protected from their mothers’ egregious sexual actings-out –- at least until the babysitter breaks the rules.
But why should I complain about dairy products when, in 2003, Madonna took the stage at Radio City Music Hall in New York where, in full view of then-husband Guy Ritchie and 7-year-old daughter Lourdes, tongue-kissed Britney Spears and Christian Aguilera, giving an advanced lesson in sex education. Child service authorities looked the other way.
The environmentalist – she made the cover of Vanity Fair’s “green’’ issue – also imported 1,000 unfortunate pheasants to her British estate, Ashcombe House, so that rich friends including Brad Pitt might pay $19,000 a day to shoot the poor birds to death.
Mercy lives in same orphanage from which she plucked David. She wants the little girl to join a brood whose size has yet to be curtailed, despite Madonna’s ridding of a husband Guy Ritchie and discarding of Lourdes’ baby daddy, Carlos Leon. It is not known whether the new child’s health will be carefully screened in Africa, as was David’s. With millions of orphans afflicted with AIDS and other diseases, Madonna got herself a good one.
David, like Mercy, lost his breast-feeding mother as an infant, and the family, unable to afford formula for him, put him in an orphanage, expecting to take him back after he was old enough to eat solid food. But Madonna chose the bright-eyed youngster. The case against Madonna was closed when she told her adoption story to a credulous and approving Oprah Winfrey. “God bless you!’’ cried Oprah.’’ She also condescended to David’s dad, Yohane Banda, as a “simple’’ man. (Ouch!).
Reportedly, David’s father upset when he learned Madonna was divorcing. Too late.
In return for Africa’s generosity, Madonna founded Raising Malawi, a girls’ academy that preaches hefty doses of Madonna’s pet belief system, Kabbalah. She might have simply made a large donation to the Bandas’ extended family, including a grandma and aunts, so they might be reunited with their biological child. But what do I know about Hollywood?
This begs another question: What is wrong with American-born orphans? Mixed-race children, for example, badly need parents, even rich ones – and can be taken home without the need of an international plane flight.
I guess those kids don’t make such good conversations with Oprah.
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March 30, 2009
Madonna's adopted son reunited with father in Malawi
Mabvuto Banda in Lilongwe and Jonathan Clayton in Johannesburg
Yohane Banda, David's father with his wife and stepdaughter
Madonna and her daughter, Lourdes, greet residents today in the village of Magwelo, near Lilongwe
The pop star was in the African country to adopt her second child
Madonna’s adopted son, David, was reunited with his biological father yesterday amid emotional scenes at an upmarket safari lodge hours after the pop star arrived in Malawi to adopt a second child.
Workers at the Kumbali lodge outside the capital Lilongwe said that David’s father Yohane Banda, who checked in at noon on Saturday, was clearly delighted to see his son again.
“He was hopping from foot to foot, you could see he was very happy,” one employee said. “He had been waiting here all morning, you could see he was over the moon when Madonna arrived with David, but the reunion itself was private,” said the employee – who asked not to be named – in a telephone call to The Times shortly after the reunion.
Security at the lodge was tight with all staff asked to hand over mobile phones while at work and roadblocks manned by private security guards across the main approach road.
“I have waited for two years, it is a dream come true,” Mr Banda, a peasant farmer, told The Times in an interview last week when it was announced that Madonna was coming to the impoverished Southern African country and he would see his son for the first time in nearly three years.
“I just wish I could see him more often, but I know one day my prayers will be answered and he will come back and live here,” he said.
He added that he had been worried about his son’s future when he heard stories about her divorce from Guy Ritchie, the film director, but that he had been assured by staff at Madonna’s charity Raising Malawi that all was well.
Under the deal which allowed Madonna, 50, to take the 13-month-old David out of Malawi in 2006, she has to bring him back regularly to see his natural father. The adoption was declared legal last year.
The American pop singer arrived in Malawi at around noon yesterday in a private jet at a part of the airport normally reserved for cargo flights.
Reporters were kept at a distance and she was driven away in a convoy of four 4x4 vehicles that sped off to the lodge where Mr Banda was waiting. Madonna was also accompanied by her other children, Rocco and Lourdes.
A little while later she reemerged with Lourdes, whose father is Carlos Leon, a personal trainer. Wearing a white fedora hat, Madonna and her daughter toured the nearby village of Chinkhota.
Dozens of reporters looked on, but she refused to answer shouted questions about reports that she was in Malawi to adopt a four-year-old girl, Mercy James. Officials say that Madonna is scheduled to appear in the High Court today to finalise the adoption of Mercy, whom she first saw at the same Mchinji orphanage where she found David.
One court official said that her Malawian lawyer, Alan Chinula, would file adoption papers at a procedural hearing for Mercy.
It is not clear if Madonna, who has to satisfy the authorities that as a single parent she is capable of caring for an adopted child, has to be present in court.
The pop star faced harsh criticism from some quarters over David’s adoption. Children’s advocacy groups accused her of using her wealth and influence to circumvent Malawian law requiring an 18 to 24-month assessment period before adoption.
The Raising Malawi project is preparing to start work on a multi-million-pound secondary school for girls. Malawi is one of the poorest countries in Africa where only a small minority of people live above the internationally accepted poverty line of 50 pence a day.
Speaking about her latest adoption move, Save the Children UK said that the singer risked sending the wrong message.
“International adoption can actually exacerbate the problem it hopes to solve,” a spokesman, Dominic Nutt, said.
“The very existence of orphanages encourages poor parents to abandon children in the hope that they will have a better life.”
However, Austin Msowoya, legal researcher with the Malawian Law Commission, played down concerns that a second adoption by Madonna would violate any laws. He said that the best interests of the child needed to be taken into account – whether that was staying in an orphanage in Malawi or getting an education with Madonna.
“When you look at these two options, then perhaps it becomes in the best interests of the child to allow the adoption if the parents and the guardians consent to it,” he told the Associated Press news agency.
Madonna’s spokeswoman in New York said that she would not be responding to comments from Save the Children.
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http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showb...icle2317735.ece
September slams Madonna
Published: 13 Mar 2009
DISCO babe SEPTEMBER, who is heading for the Top 10 with Can’t Get Over, has hit out at MADONNA.
The sexy Swede said: “She either looks great and sounds awful, or looks dreadful and sounds amazing.
"She doesn’t seem to pull off both together.”
Watch September's catchy new video.
Can't Get Over is out now.
Madonna @ MET Costume Institute Gala!
in ARCHIVE - Madonna
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