A new Madonna "tell-all" book is resurrecting a rumor that circulated a few years ago — that the music icon was more than friends with another music icon, now deceased, who was in the news recently after vandals slung a noose around a statue of him. In fact, she wanted his babies.

O'Brien says Madonna, in her mid-30s, "desperately wanted children and had various relationships with unlikely men." The singer's friend Alison Clarkson recalls when she was briefly dating Tupac Shakur, one year before his death.

"She was going out with him … but homegirls were saying to him, 'I can't believe you're going out with a white girl,'" - so she got dumped!

Well, that explains why the relationship ended. When homegirls, whoever this author thinks they are, say stop dating white girls (and can Madonna even be classified in such simple terms?), black men stop. It's a known fact.

[NYDN]