Monday, July 6, 2026

Madonna, One Week Away from 62nd Birthday, Reminds Fans She Made it On Her Own Without Any Help from Anyone

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Madonna is one week away from her 62nd birthday. She’s supported Louis Farrakhan and in the last few weeks also crazy Dr. Immanuel, the demon sperm doctor.

She hasn’t had a hit in a long time. But she’s made hundreds of millions of dollars, and was once the Queen of Pop. So she wants to remind us she did it on her own. She posted a picture of herself circa 1985 and wrote: “No YouTube, No Vine, No The Voice, No American Idol, No Disney. Just $35 and a dream.”

Madonna did it all on her own. No songwriters, no producers, no Seymour Stein or Sire Records at Warner Bros., no Liz Rosenberg, no other publicists, managers, Freddy DeMann, no Jellybean Benitez, no fans, no Susan Seidelman. No Guy Oseary, I guess, either.

Just her. Gotcha.

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No IG, Twitter or Tik Tok either! 🚀🚀🚀

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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