Madonna is in trouble, and frankly I just don’t understand why. Her neighbors have been complaining for years about what a nightmare she is – and it’s like… what’s wrong with them? Don’t they know they’re living next to a legend? Don’t they realize they should feel honored to receive anything from her at all, be in a nod in the hallway or the reverberations of her unreleased music? Some people are so ungrateful.

Last November, neighbors in Madge’s Upper West Side apartment building started complaining about the ridiculous, unbearable levels of noise she was subjecting them to for hours at a time, at all hours of the day. She had sued the co-op board in order to buy the apartment, which was adjacent to one she already owned. That’s right, they already disliked her enough to try to prevent her from buying more space in the building. She promptly turned it into a recording and dance studio, though she was required to give the building a schedule of when she’d be doing either of these noisy activities. However she hasn’t stuck to it at all, and residents have literally had to deal with blaring drums in the middle of the night.

Now one gutsy neighbor at the Harperley Hall apartments is taking on Madonna, via the co-op board. She’s suing the board for not getting Madge to shut the hell up – and the result may well be the Material Girl’s eviction.

Living above a musical icon apparently isn’t as fun as one might imagine, according to Madonna’s Manhattan neighbour, who has filed a lawsuit alleging the pop singer uses her flat as a rehearsal studio.

Karen George, who lives above Madonna in a ritzy Central Park West building, filed a lawsuit in Manhattan Supreme Court on Friday against the building’s co-op board, accusing it of not taking sufficent action against Madonna for excessive noise and disruption.

According to the lawsuit, neighbours have to deal with “blaring music, stomping and shaking walls” from Madonna’s $4-million US, seventh-floor apartment for up to three hours a day.

George also complained that “Madonna and one or more of her invited guests repeatedly dance and train… to unreasonably high-decibel, amplified music, causing noise and vibration to pour through the walls, ceilings and radiators.”

Officials representing the board say they have already threatened the entertainer with eviction if she didn’t contain the noise. The complaints started more than a year ago as she prepared for her Sticky and Sweet world tour.

Representatives for the singer have not issued comment.

[From CBC News]

Yay! Sorry but it’s hard to have any sympathy for Madonna in this one. Actually that’s fair to say about Madge on the whole. But I have yet to hear any explanation for her behavior. Madonna will do what Madonna wants to do, and the rest of you can just deal with it. How uptight are you, grandma, that you can’t handle a little drumming and some cymbals at 3:23 in the morning?

There have been off and on reports that Madonna has purchased a townhouse, and while that’s a better idea, it’s not a complete solution. Even with the nicest ones in NYC, there’s almost no space between them. Maybe a few feet at the most – 3 a.m. drumming is still going to be a problem. She won’t have shared walls and floors with people (how badly do you feel for the person living under Madonna’s practice space?), but loud thumpy Paul Oakenfold beats are still loud thumpy Paul Oakenfold beats. Just a little less so. Madonna’s best solution is probably building a place from scratch, and having it soundproofed. Or, you know, just plan on being an asshole for the rest of her life. Wonder which it’ll be?

Here’s Madge at the Costume Institute Gala in New York City on May 4th. Images thanks to WENN.com .