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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
Madonna is sending social media into a state of shock with her newly released spread for V Magazine.The 63-year-old entertainer covers the outlet’s November-December issue in which she’s interviewed by playwright Jeremy O. Harris about the purpose of artists and the negative effects of cancel culture. But it’s the issue’s portraits shot by renowned photographer Steven Klein that are causing an uproar online.The “Ray of Light” singer is seen posing in similar positions to Marilyn Monroe in her last photoshoot, Bert Stern’s "The Last Sitting (1962)," which took place six weeks before the star’s death.In the new photos, Madonna wears in hair in blonde ringlets, one of Monroe’s signature looks, while lying face down with her nude butt exposed on a hotel bed next to prescription pill bottles with a telephone nearby.According to the History Channel, Monroe was found dead in her bedroom on the morning of Aug. 5, 1962 at the age of 36. The actress was discovered with a telephone in her hand, face down, nude, with empty pill bottles littered around the room.Los Angeles police concluded her death was “caused by a self-administered overdose of sedative drugs and that the mode of death is probable suicide.”Many took to Twitter to compare Madonna’s portraits to images of Monroe at the time of her death and call out the star for glamorizing suicide.“For some morbid and eerie reason, Madonna decides to re-create Marilyn Monroe’s death bed,” wrote one user. “The black and white photo is actually Marilyn Monroe’s bedroom where she died.”"Im not sure what annoys me more about this. The fact she’s glamorising suicide, the total disrespect to Marilyn Monroe, or the sheer amount of filters and photo shop on Madonna’s face!!!!!," commented another Twitter user.“Desperately seeking attention,” added another critic.Some fans came to Madonna's defense, pointing out that the images were meant to re-create Monroe's lat photo shoot and not her death, despite looking like that. "The photo is part of an homage to Marilyn Monroe’s very last photoshoot, not her death scene,"one person wrote. "It says on Madonna's profile of that post. Before attacking someone, you
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