Madonna fined by Wembley Stadium

Pop superstar Madonna is being fined £135,000 by Wembley Stadium for starting and staying on beyond the venue's time limit during a performance there.
Madonna went beyond the stadium's strict 10:30pm curfew by 40 minutes Sep 11, reports thesun.co.uk. She has been charged £50,000 for every 15 minutes she was late.
A stadium source said: 'The concert was meant to start at 8:30pm but Madonna didn't come on stage until 9:10pm. The gig ended at 11:10pm, so she was quite a bit over. Her people knew about the possible implications for going over the curfew but this is a pretty hefty fine, even for Madonna.'
Madonna is not the first pop star to fall foul of Wembley’s curfew. George Michael was fined £130,000 when his concert also ran over time last year.

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Comments

[David]

i think maybe this is to do with the sound problems - could it be the officials of wembley purposley dulled the sound to avoid reprocusions from people who live in the area?

bit of a coincidence

[John Suddes]

shame the fine isnt going to pay back all of the people who had a crap time!!! STill really really bitter about the huge let down of this night

[sean]

just lose change! so were dose the money go?? not to us that were stuck for hours trying to get home!

[tracy]

im glad madonna was fined-not that she'll notice that money gone from her fortune anyway.i was one of the people kept waiting at wembley-& had to miss the end of the show,as i had a coach to catch-fans were leaving in their hundreds-before the last song-serves her right.i think it was very disrespectful of her to just ignore the shows official start time-fans travel from all over to see her-but they do have homes to get back too.maybe she should have a little more thought for the people who put her where she is today.