The stage for Madonna's concert in Marseille, France collapsed today, killing one person and injuring nine.
The collapse occurred at the Velodrome stadium where Madonna was going to perform on July 19. We're told the roof of the stage collapsed on top of the workers. Fire officials in Marseille tell us two of the injured workers are in critical condition -- one is an American. 
French papers say the concert has been canceled.
UPDATE: Madonna has issued the following statement: "I am devastated to have just received this tragic news. My prayers go out to those who were injured and their families along with my deepest sympathy to all those affected by this heartbreaking news."
UPDATE: A second man is now being reported as dead.
Story developing...
Reader Comments
(Page 1 of 7) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | Most Recent | Next 15 Comments
Thats because they are always in such a hurry to put these stages up.
Madonna can rebuild the stage with her extra muscular, ripped and super-powerful she-god biceps!
How sad. With all her money you would think she would be more careful and buy better stage equipment.
how the hell does the "TMZ" crew get all the information soo damn quickly??!! u must be the ones that killed Michael Jackson!
SO like does some big company like AEG pay out death Benefits and insurance to the dead mans survivors? Geeez so much bad going on lately
Once they figure out how the stage collapsed, send the defective section immediately to Joe Jackson, relabelled as "The PimpMeister Deluxe Gazebo", with a nice new pimp-purple lawn chair placed under it just right. The old geezer needs his shade.
They think one of those little adopted black kids rigged it
