Maybe Madonna isn’t that bent out of shape over her estranged brother’s “tell-all book” after all.

According to a hot Sunday morning scoop from the New York Post, the multiplatinum-selling singer ghost-wrote parts of the book along with brother Christopher Ciccone.

The NY spy claims the release of Chris’ book, reports of a rumored affair with slugger Alex Rodriguez, and whispers of the Material Girl’s marriage meltdown are all apart of an elaborate publicity stunt to sell tickets to the singer’s Sticky & Sweet Tour.

“The supposed scandal about Christopher Ciccone’s book is bullshit,” an insider revealed to the Post. “All of this was created to sell tickets for her tour, which hasn’t been selling so well.”

“She actually ghost-wrote parts of it with him, the way Princess Diana helped Andrew Morton write his book on her. That’s why there’s nothing too devastating in Chris’s book. He’s mean to others but not so much to his sister.”

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