{"id":28880,"date":"2024-02-27T18:01:17","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T18:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/madonna-removes-image-of-luther-vandross-from-montage-of-aids-victims-in-her-show\/"},"modified":"2024-02-27T18:01:17","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T18:01:17","slug":"madonna-removes-image-of-luther-vandross-from-montage-of-aids-victims-in-her-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/madonna-removes-image-of-luther-vandross-from-montage-of-aids-victims-in-her-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Madonna removes image of Luther Vandross from montage of AIDS victims in her show"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-02-27\/M_MadonnacloseupRicardoGomes_121423.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Ricardo Gomes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One of the moving moments of <strong>Madonna<\/strong>&#8216;s Celebration Tour comes when, while singing &#8220;Live to Tell,&#8221; she displays\u00a0various\u00a0photos of creatives who died of AIDS, including artist<strong> Keith Haring<\/strong>, photographer <strong>Herb Ritts<\/strong> and <strong>Queen<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>Freddie Mercury<\/strong>. According to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2024\/02\/26\/entertainment\/luther-vandross-estate-wants-his-photo-removed-from-madonnas-aids-tribute-at-her-concert\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Page Six<\/strong><\/em><\/a>,\u00a0one star&#8217;s photo was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C3yMXa_vOkM\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>mistakenly included<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0during her show in Sacramento, California, and has now been removed.<\/p>\n<p>A photo of the late <strong>Luther Vandross<\/strong> was part of the montage during the show on February 24, reports <em>Page Six<\/em>. A rep for his estate told <em>Page Six<\/em>, &#8220;Luther Vandross passed away in 2005 due to complications from a stroke suffered two years earlier.\u00a0While we appreciate Madonna\u2019s recognition of those lives lost to AIDS, Luther was NEVER diagnosed with AIDS or the HIV Virus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not sure where she or her production team received false medical information claiming otherwise. We\u2019re currently in contact with her management to remove Luther Vandross from the tribute,\u201d the statement continued.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Page Six<\/em> reports that reps for Madonna now say the photo&#8217;s been removed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ricardo Gomes One of the moving moments of Madonna&#8216;s Celebration Tour comes when, while singing &#8220;Live to Tell,&#8221; she displays\u00a0various\u00a0photos of creatives who died of AIDS, including artist Keith Haring, photographer Herb Ritts and Queen&#8216;s Freddie Mercury. According to\u00a0Page Six,\u00a0one star&#8217;s photo was mistakenly included\u00a0during her show in Sacramento, California,<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/madonna-removes-image-of-luther-vandross-from-montage-of-aids-victims-in-her-show\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,42,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}