New York Post

Madge no fan of her fans: pal

‘Didn’t care’ about mail

- By JULIA MARSH

The Queen of Pop doesn’t care about her fans, a former pal reveals in a startling, sworn deposition.

“Madonna didn’t handle her fan mail. She didn’t care,” Darlene Lutz said in a Sept. 27 legal grilling about her attempt to auction off the pop star’s memorabili­a.

Lutz and Madonna (inset) had “a longstandi­ng and extremely close personal and profession­al relationsh­ip,” the singer’s lawyer writes in a new Manhattan Supreme Court filing.

“I trusted her not only as a friend but also as someone who assisted me with private matters,” Madonna says in an accompanyi­ng affidavit filed late Friday.

The two had a falling out more than a decade ago after 20 years of friendship. Now Madonna is suing Lutz for trying to sell off her “highly personal items,” including a pair of worn satin panties and a love letter from the late rapper Tupac Shakur.

Lutz has suggested Madonna never opened the letter her then-boyfriend sent her from jail less than a year before he was killed in a drive-by shooting.

She claims Madonna’s assistants owned all of the fan mail by default as their employer “did not save, archive or store” the missives.

Instead she gave her assistants “total discretion in deciding how to dispose of the mail,” Lutz said.

Lutz claimed the Tupac letter wound up in a pile of fan mail.

The Manhattan resident didn’t realize she had the letter until 2008. Madonna first learned Lutz had the letter when Lutz consigned it to the online auctioneer Gotta Have It! Collectibl­es last summer.

Madonna insists she opened it when the rapper sent it to her in 1995.

“I have a specific memory of receiving that letter because I had a close, personal relationsh­ip with Tupac Shakur,” Madonna said in the affidavit.

“I never gave this letter away,” she said. “It is intensely personal.”

The minimum bid for the letter was $100,000. A judge put the sale on hold.

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