Now that Madonna's top-grossing world tour has come to an end, the Material Girl has decided to Open Her Heart and auction off her MDNA tour costumes to raise money for Hurrican Sandy victims.
Madonna's publicist, Liz Rosenberg, confirmed to E! News that the 54-year-old singer has agreed to donate items from her record-breaking MDNA tour to support the effort. Items up for grabs include the red and white majorette costume along with some props from the set. She will not be auctioning off the prop guns used in the first section of the show.
Back in November on the second New York City leg of her tour at Madison Square Garden (she first performed at Yankee Stadium in September), Madonna stripped on stage to raise money for Sandy victims, and even paid a visit to one of the damaged sites in Rockaway Beach in Queens, N.Y., alongside her children.
"This money is not for me," she told the crowd, who began throwing money on stage. "We are collecting money for victims of Hurricane Sandy so please feel free to be generous as I freeze my ass off."
Madonna felt moved to auction off her costumes after her 16-year-old daughter Lourdes, wrote a post for her Material Girl blog about visting the hurricane-hit region.
"It was actually really awesome to see how many people were there helping out and how many people cared," she wrote. "There has been an extreme amount of progress since the hurricane despite the damage done and it is very inspiring to see the city rebuild itself but there’s still a lot of work that needs to be done."
So for those of you out there who say Madonna is superficial and only cares about publicity, you can take your haterade and shove it where the sun don't shine.
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