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Published on October 5, 2006 at 7:34 AM

Turns out Madonna did NOT adopt an African boy as previously reported. According to her spokeswoman, Liz Rosenberg, “It is completely inaccurate. She has not adopted.”

Madonna WAS in the country visiting orphanages but government officials spun the story into much more. Madonna is being nice about it:

Rosenberg said Madonna wasn’t bothered by the bizarre hoax because the publicity over the false report will help draw attention to the horrifying devastation in Malawi, a landlocked country in southeastern Africa.
["It's] fine with her – even if it’s information that’s not correct,” Rosenberg said. Madonna reportedly plans to spend at least $3 million on programs to support Malawian orphans and $1 million on a documentary about children in the desperate land.

I guess there really isn’t such a thing as “bad” publicity…

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