Madonna's MANY feuds exposed - including spats with Gwyneth, Cher, Elton, and even Kevin Costner

Madonna is the undisputed Queen of Pop who has became as well known for her long-list of celebrity enemies, as her multiple chart-topping hits.

During her four decades in the music industry, the pop icon, 64, has become embroiled in some extremely high-profile feuds with stars including Cher, Elton John, Kevin Costner, Gwyneth Paltrow Mariah Carey and Pink.

The Like A Prayer hitmaker has proven she doesn't take kindly to her body of work being compared to others, as noted in her eight-year spat with Lady Gaga and her war-of-words  with Janet Jackson.

Known for ruffling feathers with her constant reinvention, racy lyrics and songs incorporating sexual, political and religious themes, her devotion to embracing her sexuality into her 60s has even sparked a row with 50 Cent.

As Madonna prepares to reflect on her music past with the worldwide Celebration  Tour this year, DailyMail.com looks back at her most iconic celebrity feuds...

(Not) Crazy For You: Madonna is the undisputed Queen of Pop who has became as well known for her long-list of celebrity enemies, as her multiple chart-topping hits (pictured 2015)

CHER  

Believe icon Cher has never made any secret of her disdain for Madonna, who she has branded 'rude' and 'spoiled' in the past.

A clip of Cher making a thinly-veiled dig at Madonna during an interview with the late Sir Terry Wogan in 1991, saw the popstar brutally say the Vogue songstress is 'not beautiful' and 'not unbelievably talented'.

During the interview, Wogan innocently asks her: 'Do you go jogging like Madonna to keep fit?'

To which Cher jokes: 'Do you mean like my best friend Madonna?'

With Wogan replying: 'I thought that was a subtle way to drag her in, you understand.'

Yet Cher doesn't hold back her thoughts as she quips: 'How about dragging her in by her hair!'

With Wogan joking that she doesn't appear to be 'keen' on Madonna and Cher insisting that it has been 'blown out of proportion'.

The Believe hitmaker appears to go on to compliment the Like A Prayer singer but it soon turns into some thinly-veiled digs.

Brutal! Believe icon Cher has never made any secret of her disdain for Madonna - in 1991 she said the Like A Prayer songstress is 'not beautiful' and 'not unbelievably talented' during a TV interview

Way back when: Cher previously said in the 90s to Steve Kmetko: 'I remember having her over to my house a couple of times, because [Sean Penn] and I were friends, and she just was so rude to everybody.' (Madonna and her ex-husband Sean Penn pictured in 1988) 

Cher says: 'When I was in America, someone asked me, it's not like I go around saying how I feel. Someone said to me, "What do you think about her?" I said, "Well, I think she's unbelievably creative."

'I'm amazed at the amount, in my day, I was pretty good at doing the same thing she's doing but she does it so much better.'

She brutally adds: 'She's unbelievably creative because she's not unbelievably talented, she's not beautiful but she's rude.

'So this man said, "How do you feel about her?" and I said, "She's nice, she's creative but she's rude." I said a different word but they bleeped me.

'I don't have anything against her, I do respect that she goes much further than anyone should do. The interesting thing about her is she's willing to do whatever she wants to do.'

Cher appeared to reignite her feud with Madonna in 2018 where she was asked to answer questions within five seconds on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

All is forgiven? The two pop legends are seen happily posing up together in 2017 at the Women's March on Washington

The Believe songstress had to quickly name three singers she would like to participate in a duet with, and she replied: 'Adele, Pink and.... and not Madonna!'

Ellen reminded Cher that the question was who she would like to collaborate with, to which Cher said, 'Well, I took a little license.'

Cher previously explained her feud with Madonna in the 90s with Steve Kmetko.

She said: 'There are lots of things that I respect about her. I think that she knows how to work the business like nobody I've ever seen before. There's something about her that I don't like. She's...mean. I don't like that.

'I remember having her over to my house a couple of times, because [Sean Penn] and I were friends, and she just was so rude to everybody. She acts like a spoiled brat all the time.'

Cher added: 'And it seems to me when you reach the kind of acclaim that she's reached — and you can do whatever you want to do — you should be a little bit more magnanimous, and little bit less of a c**t.'

Despite the incendiary remarks, the pair proved all is forgiven as they happily posed up together in 2017 at the Women's March on Washington.

ELTON JOHN

Long-running feud: The battle began in 2002, when Sir Elton called Madonna’s track Die Another Day the ‘worst Bond tune ever’  (pictured 1998)

The battle began in 2002, when Sir Elton called Madonna’s track Die Another Day the ‘worst Bond tune ever’.

It escalated in 2004 at the Q Awards, where Sir Elton won the Classic Songwriter Award and Madonna was nominated for Best Live Act. 

Accepting his accolade, he said from the stage: ‘Madonna, best live act? F*** off. Since when has lip-syncing been live? Sorry about that, but I think everyone who lip-syncs on stage in public when you pay like 75 quid to see them should be shot. Thank you very much. That’s me off her Christmas card list, but do I give a toss? No.’

Madonna's publicist responded: 'Madonna does not lip-sync nor does she spend her time trashing other artists.

'Elton John remains on her Christmas card list, whether he is nice... or naughty.'

John later called his Q Awards comments 'unfair' and added: 'She's been to my house for dinner. It was something I said in the heat of the moment, and probably should not have said.'

However, after Madonna turned down an invite to perform at his bachelor party, the singer was allegedly overheard telling his guests: 'Madonna, the miserable cow, wouldn't do it.'

Rant: It escalated in 2004 at the Q Awards, where Sir Elton won the Classic Songwriter Award and Madonna was nominated for Best Live Act. Accepting his accolade, he said from the stage: ‘Madonna, best live act? F*** off. Since when has lip-syncing been live?' (pictured 1995)

Outburst: Elton stunned as he called Madonna a 'f***ing fairground stripper' during an interview on Australian TV show Sunday Night in 2012 - but later apologized  for 'sounding off between takes'

Madonna's spokesman responded: 'Madonna wishes Elton all the best, and hopes married life will make him a happier person.'

In 2012, Sir Elton’s husband David Furnish also got in on the act. After Madonna took home the Golden Globe for best original song in 2012, beating Sir Elton, Mr Furnish said: ‘Madonna winning Best Original Song truly shows how these awards have nothing to do with merit. Her acceptance speech was embarrassing in its narcissism’.

John had previously said in the run- to the ceremony that Madonna had 'no f***ing chance' of winning against his track Hello Hello for animated film, Gnomeo & Juliet.

Madonna said in response: 'Elton has been known to get mad at me, so I don't know. He's brilliant, and I adore him, so he'll win another award. I don't feel bad.'

After Madonna took a swipe at fellow pop star Lady Gaga in 2012, branding her derivative, Sir Elton waded in again, little realizing his scathing comments would be broadcast on TV.

Lady Gaga is godmother to one of his sons and he said: ‘[Madonna is] such a nightmare. Sorry, her career is over. Her tour has been a disaster and it couldn’t happen to a bigger c***. 

Feuding: The pair's feud was heightened after Madonna beat Elton to take home the Best Song award at the Golden Globe awards in 2012. Elton was pictured looking furious during Madonna's acceptance speech

Defense: Elton said in his memoir: ‘I got that Gaga’s single Born This Way definitely sounded similar to Express Yourself, but I couldn’t see why she was so ungracious and nasty about it' (pictured with Gaga in 2016) 

'She’s been so horrible to Gaga. If Madonna had any common sense she’d have made a record like Ray Of Light, stayed away from the dance stuff and just been a great pop singer and make great pop records which she does brilliantly.

'But no, she had to prove that she was, like… and she looks like a f**king fairground stripper.'

Speaking of the blunder, the music legend said: 'I was furious and I said some pretty horrible things about her to a TV interviewer in Australia, a guy I’d known since the seventies called Molly Meldrum.

‘You can tell from the footage that it wasn’t part of the interview, that I was just sounding off to an old friend between takes…

‘They broadcast it anyway, which brought that particular old friendship to a very swift conclusion. Still, I shouldn’t have said it. I apologized.’

In 2016 John revealed he has buried the hatchet with Madonna after apologizing and putting the years of bickering aside.

The singer said the reconciliation came when they were coincidentally ended up at the same restaurant and he invited her to share a meal with him.

He told The Graham Norton Show; ‘I said something horrible about her that you should never say. I was in a restaurant in the south of France a couple of years ago and she walked in so I sent her a note saying, “You’ll probably never speak to me again but I am really sorry and ashamed of myself and can I buy you dinner.” She was very gracious and accepted and we talked. We are fine – it was just me and my big mouth.’

The father of two jokingly added: ‘I can’t say it won’t happen again but not with Madonna!’ 

And his words rang true in 2019, when he trotted out his feud with Madonna again in memoir Me, writing: 'I used to make fun of [Madonna] for lip-syncing on stage, but the problem really started when she ran Gaga down on an American chat show.

‘I got that Gaga’s single Born This Way definitely sounded similar to Express Yourself, but I couldn’t see why she was so ungracious and nasty about it, rather than taking it as a compliment… particularly when she claims to be a champion for women.'

He added: ‘I think it’s just wrong — an established artist shouldn’t kick down a younger artist right at the start of their career.’

GWYNETH PALTROW

Happier times: In 2010, it was claimed Madonna and actress Gwyneth had stopped speaking after a series of fall outs, which have left Madonna out in the cold by her former best friend (pictured 2010)

In 2010, it was claimed Madonna and actress Gwyneth had stopped speaking after a series of fall outs, which have left Madonna out in the cold by her former best friend. 

'They don't speak,' America's Us magazine quoted a source as saying, 'I can't tell you exactly why they had the falling out.'

It comes after months of suggestion on Gwyneth’s part that she was in the midst of a serious falling out with a friend.

She told Vogue magazine in April, 'I can be mean. I can cave in to gossip. I can ice people out and I can definitely harbour revenge.'

She continued, “In fact, I’m having a situation right now with a friend where I’m feeling pretty angry. But revenge is corrosive and it doesn’t make me feel good.'

At the time it was widely believed that Gwyneth was referring to Madonna.

In fact in the same interview she made a dig at the singer when noted that trainer Tracey Anderson, was no longer working with Madonna.

Spat: Sources later said the pair's friendship was strained 'because Gwyneth has founded a very lucrative business with Tracy Anderson, who was Madonna’s fitness expert (pictured 2014)

'It's good that she doesn't train Madonna any more. It was too much. She keeps people waiting - it takes up your whole day.'

It’s a far cry from 2006, when Gwyneth gushed in an interview that Madonna was like her older sister, saying, “Everything I have gone through, she went through ten times worse and ten times longer. She gives me good advice about how to say no and take care of myself.'

It’s claimed by US Weekly that Gwyneth and Madonna’s friendship took a turn for the worse following Madonna’s split from Guy Richie in 2008.

The magazine quotes a source as saying that things went downhill as they had 'less and less in common'.

Before the split both Americans had lived in the UK with their British husbands - Gwyneth has been married to Coldplay frontman Chris Martin since 2003.

When Madonna relocated back to New York, it seems they began to cut their ties.

A spokesperson for Madonna told MailOnline at the time: 'There has been no falling out between the two.'

Sources later said the pair's friendship was strained 'because Gwyneth has founded a very lucrative business with Tracy Anderson, who was Madonna’s fitness expert.'

KEVIN COSTNER 

'Neat': Madonna famously slammed Kevin Costner in an iconic scene in 1991 documentary Truth Or Dare after he visited her backstage at a concert and called her show 'neat'

Material (hurl): After the star left, Madge pretended to stick her finger down her throat in disgust and said: 'Anybody who says my show is neat has to go'

Madonna famously slammed Kevin Costner in an iconic scene in 1991 documentary Truth Or Dare after he visited her backstage at a concert and called her show 'neat.'

After the star left, Madge pretended to stick her finger down her throat in disgust and said: 'Anybody who says my show is neat has to go.'

Years later Madonna finally apologized to Costner at an LA concert which he attended with his daughters, saying:  ‘I want to apologize to Kevin Costner.’

Speaking to the LA Times in 2007, Costner said he felt 'embarrassed and hurt' by the initial incident, saying: 'I just went back there because I was asked to go back. And I found the best word that I could. I never called her on it or whatever.

Speaking of the apology, he added: 'She did a really beautiful thing, She was performing [in L.A.] about three or four years ago, so I decided to take my daughters to see her. I just thought this is somebody they should see. I didn’t call anybody for tickets, I just got tickets and we went down.

'And about the third song in, the lights were down, and she said "I want to apologize to someone.’" And all of a sudden my face starts to get hot. … She says, "I want to apologize to Kevin Costner"' She just said it very simply. Ninety-eight percent of that audience didn’t know what she was talking about. But I really respected that, and it showed me the power of just keeping your own counsel for a long timE.'

LADY GAGA 

Start of something: When Gaga first burst on the music scene, she and Madonna seemed close, posing together at a 2009 Marc Jacobs fashion show

Oh dear: However, relations between the pair went south after Gaga was accused of copying Madonna's song Express Yourself on her 2011 single Born This Way

When Gaga first burst on the music scene, she and Madonna seemed close, posing together at a 2009 Marc Jacobs fashion show. 

The ladies even went on to have a pretend cat fight for a skit on Saturday Night Live in October of the same year.

However, relations between the pair went south after Gaga was accused of copying Madonna's song Express Yourself on her 2011 single Born This Way.

When asked by ABC News about the similarities, which were pointed out by many fans on the internet, Madge called the singer 'reductive.'

'Is that good?,' reporter Cynthia McFadden shot back to the short answer. 'Look it up,' the pop queen responded with a sly smile while taking a sip from her tea cup.

Madonna went on to mash up Born This Way with her own 1989 hit that Gaga was accused of copying on her MDNA Tour in 2012.

The ladies appeared to kiss and make up the following year when they were spotted posing together at the Met Gala in a social media photo with Katy Perry, seemingly attempting to prove there was harmony in the pop diva land.

However, in 2016 when Beats 1 Radio DJ Zane Lowe implied to Gaga that she and Madonna had very similar background stories, Gaga seemed annoyed by the comparison that has followed her through her career.

Heyday: When asked by ABC News about the similarities, which were pointed out by many fans on the internet, Madge called the singer 'reductive' (pictured on the Girlie Show tour in 1992)

'Madonna and I are very different. I wouldn't make that comparison at all. I don't mean to disrespect Madonna. She's a nice lady. And she's had a fantastic huge career she's the biggest pop star of all time.

'But I play a lot of instruments, I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I'm a producer, I'm a writer. What I do is different. I'm not just rehearsing over and over again to put on a show,' she stated dryly. 

Netflix documentary Gaga: Five Foot Two, shows the singer, 31, candidly discussing the Material Girl. 

'The thing with, like, me and Madonna, for example, is that I admired her always. And I still admire her no matter what she may think of me,' the blond tells a friend as they sit on the floor.

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'The only thing that really bothers me about her is that I'm Italian and from New York, you know. So, like, if I've got a problem with somebody I'm gonna f---ing tell you to your face,' says Gaga. 'But, no matter how much respect I have for her as a performer, I could never wrap my head around the fact that she wouldn't look me in the eye and tell me that I was reductive or whatever.' 

But in December 2018  after a relatively calm period  the Material Girl icon hit out at her rival for supposedly stealing a famous quote of hers.

The drama started when a video compilation circulated online of Gaga repeatedly using a quote during her A Star is Born press tour.

'There can be 100 people in a room and 99 of them don't believe in you, but all it takes is one and it just changes your whole life,' the singer and actress has said on multiple occasions. 

But it turns out the quote is very similar to one said by Madonna in the 1980s, with the star herself posting an Instagram story on Monday showing herself being interviewed thirty years ago, saying: 'If there are 100 people in a room and 99 say they liked it, I only remember the one person who didn't.'

Madonna also posted an Insta snap of herself with the caption 'Don't F–k with Me Monday,' leading to a flurry of comments and back and forths between her fans and Gaga's Little Monsters.

'For all the 11-year-old Gaga fans, just google 'Single White Female,' then you'll understand why Madonna is likely upset,' said one fan. 

In 2019 the pair appeared to finally bury the hatchet as they posed at an Oscars after-party after Gaga won the gong for Best Original Song. 

MARK WAHLBERG 

Marky Mark: Madonna and Mark Walhlberg's feud began in 1993 when a row erupted as the stars attended director Alek Keshishian's Hollywood birthday party (Mark pictured 1993)

Claim: It was claimed by Madonna's representative Liz Rosenberg that Wahlberg reportedly used a homophobic slur towards once of the singer's friends - resulting in a brawl dubbed 'the hip-hop version of the OK Corral' (Madonna pictured 1993)

Madonna and Mark Walhlberg's feud began in 1993 when a row erupted  as the stars attended director Alek Keshishian's Hollywood birthday party.

It was claimed by Madonna's representative Liz Rosenberg that Wahlberg reportedly used a homophobic slur towards once of the singer's friends - resulting in a brawl dubbed 'the hip-hop version of the OK Corral.'

Another source claimed it was Madonna who started the row over Walhberg 'dissing her in the press.' 

MTV News claimed both groups used  'sexually explicit insults' before the row spilled out onto the street and  Wahlberg allegedly punched Madonna's Maverick Production talent scout, Guy Oseary.

Roseberg said at the time:  'Guy will probably press charges — I think Marky broke his nose.'

Wahlberg discussed the incident in a 2012 interview with Shortlist, saying:  '[Madonna] called the f****** cops on me. Told everybody this bulls*** story that I was doing s*** that I wasn't. 

'Penny [Marshall - the producer on 1994 film Renaissance Man] called me saying, "What the f*** did you do?", but then she was like, "F*** that, I'm giving you the part anyway."' 

COURTNEY LOVE

Awkward! In what became one of the greatest on-air spats of all time, Madonna had an incredibly awkward chat with Courtney Love during the 1995 VMAs - sparked by the latter throwing a make-up compact at her

 In what became one of the greatest on-air spats of all time, Madonna had an incredibly awkward chat with Courtney Love during the 1995 VMAs - sparked by the latter throwing a make-up compact at her.

The spat began when Madonna was being interviewed, but is surprised by the compact flying over her head.

As Madonna enquires where it came from, a dishevelled Courtney shouts: 'Hi!' as Kurt Loder says: 'Hi Courtney!'.

Courtney is then seen throwing more make-up compacts as a voice off-camera says:   'Should we let her come up?' with Madonna saying: 'No, don't please.'

As the Hole hitmaker continues throwing make-up, Madonna dryly retorts: 'Courtney Love's in dire need of attention right now.'

Courtney then says: 'She's been mean to me' while a stony-faced Madonna says: I haven't been mean to anybody, I never said anything bad about you.' 

Friends again? The pair happily posed up in 1997 - 2 years after the interview

Courtney then says of Dennis Miller: 'I used to have a crush on him! with Madonna: responding: 'Why?'

The rocker says: 'You don't even do rock stars anymore! You - as Michael Stipe would say - dip into the population...'  

Courtney then rants: 'So it's like working in the hospital and going out with the ambulance driver, I want to go out with the top surgeon, I want to own the hospital, so I go out with the other surgeons, they're assholes, maybe I should try a candy striper?

Madonna responds: 'I think you should get out of the hospital.'

As Courtney hits back: 'Nah man I like it here, nice clothes, lgood money' as Madonna adds: 'And a lot of available drugs.'

Courtney then kneels in front of Madonna and reveals she and Kurt Cobain went to see Truth Or Dare on a date, with Kurt telling Courtney at the end: 'Jesus, that's you!'

Madonna looks unimpressed and says 'really?' before the singer is escorted away from the interview by her PR team.

MARIAH CAREY 

Anytime you need a foe! The battle of the divas kicked off in 1996 when Madonna told Spin she would rather 'kill myself' than sing 'silly' pop songs like Mariah (Mariah pictured 1996)

The battle of the divas kicked off in 1996 when Madonna told Spin she would rather 'kill myself' than sing 'silly' pop songs like Mariah.  

She said: 'I was talking to k.d. lang about it last night. I don’t want to get into slagging off other artists, but we were talking about her record versus someone like Mariah Carey’s – and I think she’s a very talented singer – but we have to realize that the same country that acquitted O.J. is the same country that makes a complete piece of s**t movie number one, that buys Mariah Carey records. It’s this homogeneity. But it’s got nothing to do with art.

When asked: 'Are there moments when you just say I wish I was Mariah Carey, just singing silly pop songs?' to which Madonna responded: 'I’d kill myself.'

'People need something to look to, something to provoke them into questioning whether they completely hate something or completely love something. Perhaps somebody like Mariah Carey wishes she could make that happen.'

Carey then took a swipe at Madge's declining popularity, saying: 'I really haven't paid attention to Madonna since I was in seventh or eighth grade when she used to be popular' (pictured 1985)

Carey then took a swipe at Madge's declining popularity, saying: 'I really haven't paid attention to Madonna since I was in seventh or eighth grade when she used to be popular.'

Mariah also made fun of Madonna's new English accent after she wed Guy Ritchie during appearances on several talk shows.

Madonna later reportedly told her handlers to keep her apart from Carey during the 2006 Live 8 Concert in London. 

In 2019, Madonna posted a clip of herself backstage at the Billboard Music Awards, reacting to being asked to present Carey with the Billboard Icon Award.

She said: "At the Billboard Awards where I will be honored with nothing... as usual."

Even Mariah's then fiance James Packer got in on the action in 2015, saying: 'Who else is there? There is Barbra Streisand, Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey. Not Madonna. Those three can sing five octaves...'

JANET JACKSON 

Clash of the titans: Madonna and Janet Jackson perhaps inevitably clashed when both were fighting for the moniker, Queen of Pop during the height of their music careers (Jackson pictured 1993)

King and Queen of Pop: Jermaine Jackson's book claimed Madonna dated Michael Jackson in the early 1990s. During a dinner date, Madonna allegedly criticized Janet, which sparked the end of their romance (pictured 1991)

Madonna and Janet Jackson perhaps inevitably clashed when both were fighting for the moniker, Queen of Pop during the height of their music careers. 

Jermaine Jackson's book You Are Not Alone: Michael : Through a Brother's Eyes, claimed Madonna dated Michael Jackson in the early 1990s.

During a dinner date, Madonna allegedly criticized Janet, which sparked the end of their romance, with the insult making its way back to Janet.

When asked about comparisons between her and Madonna in the mid 1990s. Janet said: 'It’s dance music, I’ll say that, which is very similar. I think… How do I put this? I think what I do has class to it. I’ll say that.'

In a 1994 interview Janet said while she didn't hate Madonna, she had 'valid reasons to.' 

Swipe: When asked about comparisons between her and Madonna in the mid 1990s. Janet said: 'It’s dance music, I’ll say that, which is very similar. I think… How do I put this? I think what I do has class to it. I’ll say that' (pictured 1989)

 Barbed: But she took an apparent swipe at Jackson's wardrobe malfunction as she discussed her own half-time show in 2012, saying: 'You don’t have to show nipples to be interesting or and it doesn’t necessarily mean you’re cutting edge if you do right?

Madonna later said she didn't know why Jackson 'dissed' her and branded the comments 'ominous.'  She also said she was 'mystified' by the comments as she'd 'never met the woman.'

In a 1998 interview Madonna said of Jackson, Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston: 'They can't do what I do' - when she was told she held the record for best-selling female artist. 

Madonna would later happily pose up with Jackson at an event and defend her after the 2004 'Nipple-gate' incident at the Super Bowl.

But she took an apparent swipe at Jackson's wardrobe malfunction as she discussed her own half-time show in 2012, she said: 'I have not mainstreamed and I’m not planning anything naughty. I’m planning something super entertaining.

'You don’t have to show nipples to be interesting or and it doesn’t necessarily mean you’re cutting edge if you do right?

PATTI LUPONE 

'She's dead behind the eyes!': Patti LuPone, who'd played the title role in the 1979 original Broadway production of Evita laid into 'movie killer' Madonna back in 2017

Madge as Eva: Evita follows actress Eva Duarte as she sleeps her way to power via Juan Perón, whom she married in 1945, the year before his rise to the Casa Rosada

Patti LuPone, who'd played the title role in the 1979 original Broadway production of Evita directed by Hal Prince, laid into Madonnaa back in 2017.

Appearing on Watch What Happens Live this week, she tore into Madonna, who'd played the Argentine first lady Eva Perón in the 1996 film adaptation.

'Madonna is a movie killer,' vamped Patti, 'She's dead behind the eyes. She cannot act her way out of a paper bag. She should not be on - in film or onstage.'

Allowing that 'She's a wonderful, you know, performer for what she does,' the Broadway fixture insisted Madonna's 'not an actress,' closing out, with a swipe of the hand: 'Bing.' 

When host Andy Cohen had initially asked Patti of Madonna: 'What did you think of her role in Evita?', Patti's expression of faint contempt was enough to get her a laugh.

'Well, I was on the treadmill,' she recalled, 'and I would, you know, when MTV used to have videos, right? And I saw, I believe it was Buenos Aires' - an early belt-note-heavy number Eva performs in the musical - 'and I thought it was a piece of s***.'

Patti also looked back on starring in a Tony-winning revival of the Cole Porter musical Anything Goes at the Vivian Beaumont Theater in Lincoln Center in 1988. 

No holds barred: 'Madonna is a movie killer,' vamped Patti, 'She's dead behind the eyes. She cannot act her way out of a paper bag. She should not be on - in film or onstage' 

At the time, Madonna was at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, also in Lincoln Center, working on Speed-The-Plow by David Mamet, whose work Patti's played often.

Sitting with Andy and Christopher Meloni, Patti dished that 'a press agent actually put a sign up that there was only one diva allowed in this theater at a time. It wasn't me! It was a press agent that did it. I don't know whether she ever found out about it.'

As the New York Times reported in 1988, Speed-The-Plow wound up scrapping its planned run at the Newhouse and heading straight to Broadway at what was then the Royale Theatre and has since been rechristened the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre.

Quoth Patti: 'I did meet her after her opening night party, and the only thing that Madonna has ever said to me was: "I'm taller than you." Bada-bing.'

In a dishy and rancorous self-titled memoir written with Digby Diehl, Patti's groused at length about the fraught experience of bringing Evita to Broadway in 1979.

50 CENT 

Happier times: In one of the pop icon's most bizarre feuds, she publicly rowed with rapper 50 Cent on social media after he branded her 'old' and a 'grandma' in response to her sexy snaps (pictured in 2003)

Expressing herself: The In Da Club rapper, 47, took to Instagram to criticize her video in which she angrily lip synced along to the track Vent by Baby Keem

In one of the pop icon's most bizarre feuds, she publicly rowed with rapper 50 Cent on social media after he branded her 'old' and a 'grandma' in response to her sexy snaps.

In December 2021, the Like A Virgin singer made headlines after she posted a series of racy shots donning black underwear with fishnet stockings and heels, with one shot showcasing her legs and rear end.

50 Cent subsequently reposted the latter shot with harsh words toward Madonna, citing her age and the nature of her posts.

'Yo this is the funniest s***!' the If I Can't rapper wrote. 'LOL That’s Madonna under the bed trying to do like a virgin at 63. [She] shot out, if she don’t get her old a** up. LMFAO.'

50 Cent also reposted the shot likening Madonna to the Wicked Witch of the East from The Wizard of Oz, photoshopping her legs and backside under a house in a frame from the 1939 classic.

'STARZ ask me to do a remake, I said only if Madonna is gonna play the role because i need star power and sex appeal in this one,' he wrote.'

Oh dear: 50 - real name Curtis James Jackson III - reposted an image if an article discussing Madonna's video and wrote: 'I told y’all grand ma was on bulls**! like a virgin at 64. LOL'

Madonna shared a 2003 photo of herself affectionately posing alongside the rap artist calling him out for phoniness. She said, 'Here is 50 Cent pretending to be my friend. Now you have decided to talk smack about me!'

50 Cent reposted a racy shot  of Madonna likening her to the Wicked Witch of the East from The Wizard of Oz, photoshopping her legs and backside under a house in a frame from the 1939 classic

Madonna then took to Instagram to fire back, sharing a 2003 photo of herself affectionately posing alongside the rap artist and calling him out for phoniness.

'Here is 50 Cent pretending to be my friend,' the Material Girl wrote in text overlapping the image. 'Now you have decided to talk smack about me! 

The Papa Don't Preach artist called out the rap artist for his tendency to attack others via social media.

'I guess your new career [is] getting attention by trying to humiliate others on social media [the] least elevated choice you could make as [an] artist and an adult,' she said. 'You’re just jealous she won’t look as good as me or have as much fun when you’re my age!'

Madonna added, 'Too bad there are no sour grapes [emojis].'

Madonna also posted a clip in which she was using a Yoda filter, sharing a message of self-confidence with her 17.1 million followers.

'Cheer up, things could be worse, you could be me for instance,' she said. 'Personally, I like the way I look, but there are those that find it hard to appreciate people and things that are different. And they try to shame me or humiliate me or make me feel less than because I am not like everyone else.

'But in fact, I cherish my uniqueness and I've grown stronger because to be unique is to be rare.'

In November 2022, 50 was at it again as he branded her a 'grandma' and slammed her over her bizarre lip-syncing video.

The In Da Club rapper took to Instagram to criticize her recent video in which she angrily lip synced along to the track Vent by Baby Keem. 

50 - real name Curtis James Jackson III - reposted an image of an article discussing Madonna's video and wrote: 'I told y’all grandma was on bulls**! like a virgin at 64. LOL' before hashtagging his own alcohol brands.

GWEN STEFANI 

Pals again? In 2005 Madonna blasted No Doubt singer Gwen Stefani for 'copying' her style, saying: 'She ripped me off. We work with a lot of the same people. She married a Brit, she's got long hair and she likes fashion (pictured 2009)

In 2005 Madonna blasted No Doubt singer Gwen Stefani for 'copying' her style, saying: 'She ripped me off. We work with a lot of the same people. She married a Brit, she's got long hair and she likes fashion.

Stefani however hit back, saying: 'Some people say that I copy her.

'But show me one girl my age who was not influenced by her.'

PINK 

Don't Let (Madonna) Get Me! Pink spilled details on tension with her childhood musical hero Madonna in a candid new interview (pictured 2001)

Pink spilled details on tension with her childhood musical hero Madonna in a candid new interview. 

During an appearance on SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Show on Wednesday, the iconic radio host asked the songstress if she was friends with big stars like the Material Girl, which she quickly responded matter-of-factly: 'No. Madonna doesn't like me.'

After Stern tried to get her to elaborate on the subject, the Pennsylvania native added, 'Some people just don't like me. I'm a polarizing individual.'

Stern then shot back and said 'Madonna's a polarizing individual', which the mother of two agreed, all while seemingly thinking back at how she idolized her as a youngster. 

'She is man. F**k I loved her,' Pink, 43, confessed, before explaining why she thinks Madonna doesn't like her. 

'She tried to kind of play me on Regis And Kelly and I'm not the one so. I didn't work out,' she shared, which again prompted the host to try to get at the core of any potential feud between the two stars.

'What does that mean she tried to play you?' Stern asked. 

It's just such a silly story. I f***ing love Madonna, and I love her no matter what. I still love her no matter what. She was such an inspiration to me, but it sort of got twisted around that I was like fangirling and was dying to meet Madonna, when in actuality she invited me into her dressing room. And so, I just said a joke when Regis brought me out and said, "I heard you were just falling over yourself backstage [at a Madonna show}. How does it feel?""

"I'm like, "I thought she wanted to meet me,"' she said of the joke on the daytime talk show years ago. 'I didn't work out for us.'

Iconic: Pink also revealed that Madonna had originally wanted her to be a part of the iconic three-way kiss at the 2003 VMAs, which saw her lock lips with Britney Spears (pictured) and Christina Aguilera

Stern summed it all up by saying, 'Madonna took the joke personally.'

Pink also revealed that Madonna had originally wanted her to be a part of the iconic three-way kiss at the 2003 VMAs, which saw her lock lips with Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera. 

She told KTU 103.5: 'I think we all were [invited]. I think Madonna wanted to kiss all of us. I was in Costa Rica at the time, having all kinds of fun with my boyfriend Carey Hart. Gwen Stefani was also invited, I remember. It was a bunch of us.

'It was going to be a party. It would’ve been a really weird party.'

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