Last month, Madonna launched the construction of a multimillion dollar girls’ school she is funding in Malawi, the native country of the singer’stwo children. The 51-year-old star will be in Rio later this week to visit some of the Brazilian city’s famed slums, or “favelas”, and meet with one of the country’s richest businessmen to discuss setting up social projects, says state Governor Sergio Cabral. Madonna’s meeting with the governor of the state to discuss sponsoring a documentary about kids living in the squalid hillside slums.

“She will get to know some social projects; she is enchanted with Rio and wants to help,” Cabral said. The beachside city has about 1,000 slums, many of them controlled by violent drug gangs or other armed groups.

A major outbreak of violence followed Rio’s selection to host the 2016 Olympics last month.

The 51-year-old pop star has moved on from modeling for France’s Louis Vuitton in order to work for the popular Italian fashion duo, D&G announced in its online magazine Swide on Monday.

“To have Madonna in our campaign is a dream come true,” Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana said in a statement. “It seemed only fitting that Madonna, who embodies both the strong sensuality of the brand and who shares an Italian heritage with the designers should be the one to showcase the Sicilian inspired collection,” the duo remarked of their upcoming collection, which is said to heavily feature corsets.

D&G designed the costumes for Madonna’s 1993 “The Girlie Show Tour” as well as last year’s “Sticky & Sweet” trek around the globe.

Photographer Steven Klein reportedly snapped the blonde’s first ads for the label in New York City last week.

The 51-year-old pop queen is slightly nervous about meeting Jesus Luz’s mother Cristaine Regina Da Silva who is 15 years younger than her, insiders tells London’s The Sun.

Close friends think that the meeting is a sign that they could be thinking about getting married — despite the twice-divorced Madonna’s insistent that she has taken her final trip down the aisle.

“Madonna really does love and need Jesus – and she does not hold all the power in their relationship. He grew up with strong Christian beliefs,” a Madge Camp spy blabs to The Sun. “He wants to marry and be taken seriously. She doesn’t want to lose Jesus and so the visit to his parents is her way of saying she will make this relationship permanent. He wants proof of commitment and he wants her to make an honest man of him.”

Madonna was among the first people to show an interest in adapting author Sapphire’s gritty drama into a film.

“There was this really earnest college student with his backpack on who wanted to do his first film, and then Madonna wanted to produce it,” the writer reveals in this week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly.

“I was like, ‘Madonna? I don’t think this is her film,’” she added. “I remember this one producer told me that he had found Precious—and it was going to be Brandy,” a shocked Sapphire said. “Excuse me? I literally almost hung up on him.”

The post finally went to moviemaker Lee Daniels who managed to convince her with his credentials. Precious opens in theaters everywhere this Friday.

With stinkers like Shanghai Surprise and Body of Evidence to her credit, the Queen of Pop, 51, has never had much success in the film industry. Nonetheless, she decided to try her hand at scriptwriting earlier this year, but launching her project is proving to be difficult.

“I just finished writing a script and I am trying to get funding and casting for it, believe it or not,” Madge revealed to London’s Daily Express this month. “It’s called ‘We’ and it’s a love story. It is two parallel love stories told from a woman’s point of view, obviously.”

She added, “One is a historical story that took place with the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. And the other is one I made up about a couple in New York.”

Madonna co-founded the organization in 2006, as a non-profit dedicated to helping Malawi’s one million orphans. Today, Madge is pledging $100,000 to match your contribution dollar-for-dollar.

“Please join me in supporting the work of Raising Malawi. Every dollar we collect will make a huge difference in a child’s life. By matching your donation, dollar for dollar, I will personally ensure that your contribution has an even greater impact,” the pop legend says in the video message.

“That’s a promise.”

On Sunday, Madonna broke ground on her Raising Malawi Academy for Girls.

Learn how you can get involved at http://www.raisingmalawi.org….

I sure hope they’ll do “Lucky Star.” I love that jam — nothing beats ’80s-era Madonna.

On Wednesday, Dianna Agron, who plays scheming pregnant cheerleader Quinn Fabray on the series, told The Los Angeles Times that she will be singing one of Madge’s classic jams on an episode airing later this year.

“There’s a Madonna song coming up in episode 10…You get this news that you’re gonna sing all these songs that you grew up listening to and it’s amazing!”

Glee has already featured the hits of some of the biggest stars in music today, including Rihanna, Amy Winehouse, and Kanye West.

Karen George, of Manhattan, lives above Madonna in a building near Central Park and claims the superstar’s loud music and frequent dance sessions are causing a commotion for local residents.

In a lawsuit filed Friday against the building’s co-op board, Karen alleges that the Material Girl is using her apartment as a rehearsal studio, forcing neighbors to endure “blaring music, stomping and shaking walls,” for up to three hours each day.

She also complained about “unreasonably high-decibel, amplified music” and vibrations pouring through walls, ceilings and radiators.

The building’s board is defending itself by saying it has already threatened to evict Madonna.

Tre’tacké! Thankfully, Madge smartened up before her releasing her offensive little minstrel show to consumers, realizing the idea was too controversial — not to mention stupid. Why would she even consider such a thing when she is the mother of two children of color? She’s never struck me as a racist — and still doesn’t — but blackface represents a very painful time in our nation’s history. There are some historical horrors that shouldn’t be digitally-remastered.

“I painted my face black, except for red lips and white eyes. It was a play on words,” Madonna reveals in a new commemorative issue of Rolling Stone, on newsstands this week. “Have you ever heard of the Black Madonna? It has layers of meaning, and, for a minute, I thought it would be a fun title… Then I thought, ‘25 per cent of the world might get this, probably less, it’s not worth it.’”

Madge spies tell GLOBE that Madonna, 51, is shelling out $1,000 per week on a private tutor to work with Jesus.

“Madonna used to find Jesus’s broken English charming, but not anymore,” a snitch says. “She wants prove to her friends that he’s intelligent and sophisticated, so she’s hired a language teacher and forbidden him from speaking Portuguese anymore.”