Madonna’s worn knickers and hairbrush WON’T be sold at auction after she claimed weirdos could extract her DNA from them
The hit singer has taken out an emergency court order to stop the sale claiming the items were stolen
POP queen Madonna has stopped an auction of her private possessions over fears a pair of her used knickers could be used by an oddball to obtain her DNA.
The legendary singer has taken out an emergency court order to stop the sale claiming the items were stolen from her by a former trusted associate.
According to Madonna, lots being auctioned by the website gottahaverockandroll.com were secretly taken from her home by a former friend, art consultant Darlene Lutz.
The chart-topper claimed Lutz was a "frequent overnight guest" in her New York residence.
Items included in the auction included "personally worn" underwear, clothing, cheque books, cassette tapes of unreleased recordings and personal photographs from vacations.
Also up for grabs is a hairbrush and private letters with family members and celebrities including Rosie O'Donnell and former boyfriend Tupac Shakur, .
Tupac's 1995 letter hit the headlines last week after it was revealed the rapper ended their relationship because she was white.
Madonna personally addressed the correspondence in her court order, saying that Lutz betrayed her trust and that she has "never sold, gifted, transferred or otherwise disposed of the Shakur letter."
"The fact that I have attained celebrity status as a result of success in my career does not obviate my right to maintain my privacy, including with regard to highly personal items," Madonna said in court papers.
"I understand that my DNA could be extracted from a piece of my hair. It is outrageous and grossly offensive that my DNA could be auctioned for sale to the general public."
Madonna told the court that Lutz was formerly a close friend and had access to the personal items when she helped the pop singer pack up a house in Miami.
"It seems obvious that Defendant Lutz betrayed my trust in an outrageous effort to obtain my possessions without my knowledge or consent and now attempts to profit by auctioning off my personal belongings and private communications to the general public," Madonna said.
Another personal letter to be auctioned off featured an early-Nineties Madonna expressing her bitterness at the successes of the "horribly mediocre" Whitney Houston and actress Sharon Stone.
"It's so unequivocally frustrating to read that Whitney Houston has the music career I wish I had and Sharon Stone has the film career I'll never have," she wrote, in a correspondence to a person identified only as "J".
"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."
A spokesman for Lutz and the auction house said the allegations will be "vigorously challenged and refuted" in court.
"Madonna and her legal army have taken what we believe to be completely baseless and meritless action to temporarily halt the sale of Ms. Lutz's legal property," spokesman Pete Siegel told the New York Post.
"We are confident that the Madonna memorabilia will be back."
Last week we revealed how in a startling prison letter, Tupac told the chart-topper their relationship was becoming bad for his gangsta-lifestyle image.
Tupac wrote: "For you to be seen with a black man wouldn't in any way jeopardise your career, if anything it would make you seem that much more open and exciting.
"But for me at least in my previous perception I felt due to my 'image' I would be letting down half of the people who made me what I thought I was."
The full letter dated January 15, 1995 - said to contain more revelations - is being sold at auction in the US later this month and is expected to fetch a fortune.
Tupac clearly thinks he is going to devastate Madonna with his rejection, saying, "I never meant to hurt you."
The pair first met in March 1993 at the Soul Train Music Awards in Los Angeles after being introduced by actress Rosie Perez.
By the end of March 1994, the pair's romantic relationship was going strong, .
The music star even credited a foul-mouthed appearance on the Late Show With David Letterman in 1994 to being in a gangsta mindset because of her romantic involvement with the Thug Life rapper.
"I was mad at [David Letterman] when I said the F-word a lot," she told Stern.
"I was in a weird mood that day. I was dating Tupac Shakur at the time and the thing is, he got me all riled up about life in general."
Tupac was in jail after being found guilty of sexually abusing a fan.
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At his sentencing he said: "I've been shot five times and He's brought me this far.
"I put my faith in God. Once again, I have no shame. What happens, happens for a reason. I leave this in the hands of God."
He was killed one year after being released from prison, in a drive-by shooting in September 1996.
The prison letter will go up for auction from July 19 - 28 at .
The starting bid is $100k and it's expected to fetch a lot more. The last letter written by Tupac sold for more than $170k.