Madonna Rakes in the Dough for Malawi

Madonna does everything big. And now, the singer just raised a sum of $11 million for her Malawi charity.

The superstar went to African courts to fight to adopt two children from the orphanage in Malawi, and is now helping out the poor area that has also been stricken with AIDS.

Madonna received the money from pledges from Brazilian millionaires while on a trip to Rio while she is said to have visited the parents of her beau, 22-year-old Jesus Luz.

But she denies those rumors or that she was meeting his 36-year-old mother and that her visit was only a philanthropic venture involving meetings with high power Brazilians.

Madonna got an unspecified pledge from the country's richest man, the mining magnate Eike Batista, whose estimated fortune is worth $7.5million.

The charity is the Raising Malawi Foundation which was started back in 2006. She previously traveled to Malawi with her four children and took part in a ceremony for a girls’ school she started and then took David Banda and Mercy back to visit the orphanage she adopted them from.

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