Friday July 11, 2008
Carlos Leon and Madonna at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California in 1997.
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Madonna initially wanted basketball player Dennis Rodman to father her first child, her brother Christopher Ciccone reports in his new tell-all book, according to the New York Post.
The singer, now 49, also considered Melrose Place star John Enos, Ciccone claims, before she got pregnant with trainer Carlos Leon and gave birth to their daughter Lourdes in 1996.
Madonna, though, was "not sure [Carlos] fulfills the intelligence requirement" to father her child, Ciccone writes.
Leon recently was spotted at the Kabbalah Centre in NYC with Lourdes, Madonna and her two children with husband Guy Ritchie.
(Madonna and Ritchie are currently denying a divorce is pending despite attorney consultations and her late-night visits with Alex Rodriguez.)
Meanwhile, former baseball player Jose Canseco has told Us Weekly: "[Madonna] wanted to get married and have a child with me — she wanted a Cuban child."
(See Madonna's most controversial moments.)
Ciccone's Life With My Sister Madonna, out next week, also dishes on other Madonna's relationships.
He says her husband Ritchie is homophobic and "swells noticeably" when around gay men.
Ciccone claims Madonna's first husband, Sean Penn, forced him to be "blood brothers" – and sliced their thumbs to exchange blood. Years later, the actor asked Ciccone, who's gay, if he has AIDS.
As for Madonna's fling with John F. Kennedy Jr.?
Ciccone reports that Madonna said, "I feel like I am repeating Marilyn [Monroe] and the president."
(See all of Madonna's hook-ups.)
Madonna also has "an 8-by-12-foot photo of herself in S&M gear and lying on a bed with dead animals in her home," the Post reports, citing the book.
It's "the creepiest thing I've ever seen," Ciccone writes.
Check out the new issue of Us Weekly available now, for the full story on how the Material Girl lured A-Rod away from his newborn, why a friend says he's "totally brainwashed" by kaballah and how Madonna is thriving on the attention.
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