Madonna's Bro Dishes Dirt on Book Fallout

Claims she has S&M portrait in house near kids

(NEWSER) - The forthcoming tell-all by Madonna’s estranged brother Christopher Ciccone is a treasure trove of gossip, the New York Post reports. More juicy bits trickling out from Life With My Sister Madonna:

• Madonna hung an a 8-by-12-foot photo of herself in S&M gear, lying on a bed with dead animals, in full view of her kids.

(NEWSER) - Madonna may have found a new way to stick it to soon-to-be ex Guy Ritchie, the UK Sun reports. The Material Girl plans to become a major-film director—just like Ritchie. Her brother says she will move to New York from London with the kids to pursue her new goal. Madonna directed one low-budget film this year, Filth and Wisdom, and liked it so much she wants to try her hand on a grander scale. More»

He'll publish memoir about his famous sis

(NEWSER) - Madonna's younger brother will release a memoir next month about his big sister, E! Online reports. Simon & Schuster is mum on whether Michael Ciccone's book offers any salacious details, but it has ordered 350,000 copies of Life With My Sister to hit stores on July 15. A Madonna rep said the Material Girl had no comment, adding that the two siblings were no longer close, the AP notes. More»

Girlfriend Jacqui Ainsley, 29, due in September

(NEWSER) - It looks like you can mark Guy Ritchie down under the "moved on" category. Two and a half years ago his marriage to Madonna fell apart ; now the director is having a baby with his 29-year-old model girlfriend Jacqui Ainsley, the Daily Mail reports. The baby is due in early September and will be Ritchie’s third; he has both biological son Rocco and adopted son David with the Material Girl. Ritchie and Ainsley have been dating for a little more than a year, and a friend says wedding bells are likely in the near future. Click for more on their romance and pregnancy. More»

He remembers being warned that people wouldn't like him

(NEWSER) - Pundits love to offer up psychological assessments of the president, writes Walter Shapiro on Politics Daily , but few of them think to return to Barack Obama’s own autobiography, Dreams From My Father. Shapiro, reading the book for the first time, finds that no one could have predicted Obama’s problems better than Obama himself did in the book. In one telling passage, Obama recalls a piece of advice given to him as he started community organizing: “Barack, you’ve got to stop worrying about whether people like you. They won’t.” More»