The Material Girl is living in a delusional world, according to a former friend trying to make some money off a cache of the superstar’s personal belongings.
Madonna had filed an emergency suit against ex-pal Darlene Lutz and the New York-based auction house Gotta Have It! Collectibles on Tuesday to block the auction of 22 of her personal items from going forward Wednesday.
But in new court papers, Lutz says Madonna freely gave away the items, including a love letter to her from Tupac Shakur, the singer’s worn panties and a hairbrush.
“I was friends with Plaintiff Madonna Ciccone and worked as an independent art adviser, helping her build her art collection, from about 1983 to 2004,” the 62-year-old Soho resident says in the new filing.
“As a result of my close relationship with plaintiff, I received certain [items] directly from her,” Lutz says in the papers.
As for the undergarments, Lutz says Madonna’s party promoter ex-boyfriend, Peter Shue, put those up for auction.
“Lot No. 10 is a pair of underwear and a letter that Madonna apparently sent to a love interest,” Lutz says in an affidavit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court on Wednesday.
“He, not I, consigned [the underwear] for auction,” Lutz says.
Her Madgesty’s suit “conveniently omits that she had sent her underwear with a handwritten note to a former love interest ‘as you requested’ ‘for love & luck,'” Lutz notes.
“If Madonna truly wanted privacy, then mailing her lingerie was not the way to go,” the ex-pal snipes in court papers.
“Any harm or embarrassment that she claims to have suffered was her doing,” Lutz adds.
Late Tuesday, Justice Gerald Leibovitz signed the order halting the auction and set a hearing date for September, when Madonna will be back in the country. Last week she was in southeastern Africa celebrating the opening of a children’s hospital funded by her charity Raising Malawi.
Lutz is now asking him to reverse his ruling.
“This lawsuit is pretext for Madonna’s personal vendetta against Ms. Lutz, whom she already has sued once over a decade ago following a personal falling out,” the filing states.
Lutz says Madonna has no right to sue her over the auction items because of a settlement the two reached after a disagreement over the pop star’s art collection.
Lutz paid Madonna a “certain sum of money,” and in exchange Madonna “provided the broadest possible general release to me releasing all claims, known or unknown, ‘by reason of any event, transaction or other relationship or cause whatsoever,'” Lutz says in court papers.
A lawyer for Madonna did not immediately return messages seeking comment.