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 The "Rebel Heart" singer filed a request in New
York Supreme Court for a temporary restraining order against New
York auction house Gotta Have It Collectibles to halt the sale,
due to start on Wednesday.
Madonna said in court documents that she was not aware until
reading press reports that many of the items listed for auction,
including the letter from her former boyfriend Shakur, were no
longer in her possession.
The items were consigned to auction by Darlene Lutz, whom
Madonna described in court documents as a former friend and art
consultant and said she had "betrayed my trust in an outrageous
effort to obtain my possessions without my knowledge or
consent."
A representative for the auction house and Lutz said in an
emailed statement that Madonna's effort to stop the sale was "a
completely baseless and meritless action," and they would
challenge her claims in court.
“We believe that her intent is nothing more than to besmirch the
good reputations of the auction house and Ms Lutz," the
statement said.
In a letter dated January 1995 and written to Madonna by Shakur
while he was in prison for sexual assault, the rapper said he
ended their romance because he felt that dating a white woman
could jeopardize his career.
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 "I felt due to my 'image' I would be letting
down half of the people who made me what I thought I was. I
never meant to hurt you," he said. Shakur was killed at age 25
in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas in September 1996.
Also among the 20 items Madonna is seeking to
remove from sale are a pair of her panties, an old checkbook, a
hairbrush and personal photos.
In another letter from the early 1990s, Madonna voiced her
frustration at not having a music career like Houston or film career
like Stone.
"Not because I want to be these women - because I'd rather die, but
they're so horribly mediocre and they're always being held up as
paragons of virtue (or) some sort of measuring stick to humiliate
me," she said in the letter.
Houston drowned in a Beverly Hills hotel bathtub in 2012.
Stone said in a Facebook post last week that she is friends with
Madonna, adding: "I love and adore you; won't be pitted against you
by any invasion of our personal journeys."
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; Editing by Leslie Adler)
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