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Ingrid Casares reveals truths about Madonna-Sandra Bernhard-Ingrid love triangle in early 90s

Ingrid Casares recently gave an interview with the Wham Bam Thank You Pam podcast where she shed newish light on the Madonna, Sandra Bernhard and her drama triangle in the “Sex” book era early 90s.

Matthew Rettenmund sums it up nicely on his EncyclopediaMadonnica Instagram. Cut and pasted here:

“Ingrid Casares (seen with a fur-clad Madonna in 1997) gave a recent interview about addiction, her good fortune with poppi and M to WHAM BAM THANK YOU PAM that seems to have gone under the radar.

She talks with Pam Gaslow about meeting Sandra Bernhard, saying Sandra encouraged her within one month to move in with her, relocating from Miami to L.A. in July 1991. And spoiler alert, she states directly:

"M is straight," putting to rest decades of assumptions about their relationship.

According to Ingrid, she met Madonna at her birthday one month later, August 1991.

By December, Madonna was working on "Sex" and asked Ingrid at dinner - in front of Sandra and Steven Meisel — if she would be in it. Sandra angrily told Ingrid she was not allowed to do it. Interestingly, Ingrid says Sandra would spend long phone calls with her pals Andre Leon Talley and Isaac Mizrahi TRASHING Madonna, even though they were supposedly friends. Ingrid calls herself a "loyalist," which is an understatement 34 years later.

When she started hanging out with Madonna, Sandra "freaked out." Ingrid feels it was all very high school, with Sandra telling her she couldn't hang out with Madonna anymore. Ingrid instead flew to Miami to shoot "Sex" and suffered Sandra's wrath publicly for 10+ years (as we recall, it was a major, major part of Sandra's act for a long time). Amazingly, Ingrid got to watch Madonna's nude-hitcher shoot before she posed herself!

Of being in the press 24/7 back then, she says, "It was always, 'Ingrid, Madonna's gal pal! Madonna and I have always been friends... They assumed it was more, but Madonna's straight, Madonna's straight, she doesn't like girls."

As I've often said, if Madonna were bisexual, I've always believed she would tell us.

Very eye-opening interview. I think this has to be the first time anyone point-blank asked Ingrid about whether she had sex with Madonna, and hearing Ingrid's take on being under the media microscope is fascinating.”

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by Anonymousreply 76August 30, 2025 11:04 PM

M and Ingrid, c.1990s

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by Anonymousreply 1August 29, 2025 12:09 PM

More Sandra Bernhard-bashing on DataLounge. SHAME ON ALL OF YOU!

by Anonymousreply 2August 29, 2025 12:11 PM

Ingrid Casares was a coke whore hanger-on parasite.

by Anonymousreply 3August 29, 2025 12:17 PM

She isn't telling the truth about Madonna being straight. Madonna's female love interest from college read some of the letters Madonna wrote her during their college time together, they were pretty graphic. And Madonna did pursue one of the women in her Justify My Love video (on the level of obsession).

by Anonymousreply 4August 29, 2025 12:28 PM

[quote] As I've often said, if Madonna were bisexual, I've always believed she would tell us.

She did say she was bi in an interview with The Advocate in the early 90s.

by Anonymousreply 5August 29, 2025 12:29 PM

I smell a rat.

This is very "suck up-ish" and her reveals are suspect. And why now when most people have lost interest?

Ingrid Casares is a crafty one. I bet she's broke.

by Anonymousreply 6August 29, 2025 12:39 PM

R3=Medusa Gorgon shovel faced Sandra Bernhard.

So fucking old, ugly and bitter.

by Anonymousreply 7August 29, 2025 12:39 PM

[quote] She isn't telling the truth about Madonna being straight.

She is. Madonna loves to be loved. Ingrid was enthralled and Madonna is enthralled with someone being enthralled by her. But in reality, Madonna wants to ride cocks and be held by big, strong arms attached to smelly armpits...just like you, Constance.

by Anonymousreply 8August 29, 2025 12:42 PM

This woman is still a coke whore and fucked up in the head. I know people who know her. She is seriously bad news. She had the mob after her in Miami. She was pulling scams and drugs with her clubs. I don’t know what Madonna saw in her except an easy lay and access to money and clients.

by Anonymousreply 9August 29, 2025 1:08 PM

Madonna’s letters expressing her love for her dancer are out there and she, Jenny Shimizu, confirmed that she fucked Madonna countless times. Madonna would call her up in the middle of the night, get her a plane to come fuck her at her hotel. You can call Madonna straight, gay, bi, whatever, but she’s fucked women.

Madonna said two years ago that she forgot how many women she fucked. So she’s made no secret of it. She just hasn’t named names. Ingrid was in the Sex book and written about extensively throughout. This includes passages about eating Ingrid out and finger fucking her.

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by Anonymousreply 10August 29, 2025 1:11 PM

Madonna did the same with another woman.

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by Anonymousreply 11August 29, 2025 1:12 PM

Madonna’s first manager, lesbian Camille Barbone, said that Madonna tried to fuck her countless times for money. Madonna was working as a hooker in NYC at one point according to Stephen Bray. She had no money for rent. She would take a guy back to their apartment and she’d have money after they left. Madonna will fuck anything.

by Anonymousreply 12August 29, 2025 1:15 PM

R12 except Rosie O’Donnell.

Never fucked Rosie!

by Anonymousreply 13August 29, 2025 1:17 PM

Sounds like Sandra was in the wrong here. I do love her though.

Maybe she's matured. She recently expressed regret at being mean to Morgan Fairchild on Roseanne.

by Anonymousreply 14August 29, 2025 1:20 PM

Even Madonna has some standards.

by Anonymousreply 15August 29, 2025 1:21 PM

I would take anything coming out Ingrid’s mouth with a pinch of salt.

by Anonymousreply 16August 29, 2025 1:21 PM

It’s out of order for Sandra not to want her girlfriend to be showing her snatch to random people? Really?

by Anonymousreply 17August 29, 2025 1:22 PM

[quote] Madonna was working as a hooker in NYC at one point according to Stephen Bray.

What?!

by Anonymousreply 18August 29, 2025 1:29 PM

R17, I think the implication is that she did it out of jealousy because she didn't want Ingrid getting more attention from Madonna than herself.

by Anonymousreply 19August 29, 2025 1:30 PM

The truth lies somewhere between these three bitches.

by Anonymousreply 20August 29, 2025 1:44 PM

Amanda, quite the glamazon

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by Anonymousreply 21August 29, 2025 1:47 PM

[quote]She had no money for rent...

But didn't Christopher Ciccone, in his book about his sister, refute this rags to riches tale, saying she had financial support from her family and an existing network of contacts?

by Anonymousreply 22August 29, 2025 1:47 PM

If Ingrid's story is a lie, it's a good one. Sounds on brand for everyone involved.

Guess we'll never know.

by Anonymousreply 23August 29, 2025 1:48 PM

I remember Ingrid being written about so fucking much in the 90s - and it was just a mystery to me.

I really don't know WHY she was popular outside of getting next to Madonna in Miami. But she was everywhere.

Seemed like an attention whore and celebrity hanger-on to me. Did not know she was Sandra's girlfriend at first - which now makes a ton of sense.

Sandra knew Madonna and what she was like. Seriously - I don't believe a word Ingrid says - and if the poster up above is correct about mob ties and shady dealings, then that could explain a lot too.

Never understood how this woman got the money to live that life or to start up clubs - except if she was dealing with drugs and drug money. Now that makes a lot of sense. She was a coke dealer to the stars.

Articles like this made it seem she was the center of the universe.

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by Anonymousreply 24August 29, 2025 2:08 PM

Forget for a moment (if you can) who these individuals are.

This all seems like relatively normal human drama between people.

by Anonymousreply 25August 29, 2025 2:10 PM

Madonna queer-baited us all for decades. She's never been anything other than a hyper-sexual heterosexual woman with gay friends. A faghag slut, in other words. Dime a dozen. But she rode that act all the way to icon status.

Cunt. Fuck her for using us to bolster her "edgy" image. We're just window dressing to her, another form of artifice to put on and pull off at will.

by Anonymousreply 26August 29, 2025 4:04 PM

Bullshit r26. Madonna has always had deep friendships with gay men and was hugely pro-gay at a time when it was very controversial. She played an important role in formulating the acceptance of gay men in mainstream society.

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by Anonymousreply 27August 29, 2025 4:09 PM

She also had lesbian affairs. The idea that Madonna queer baited is stupid. She's a typical catholic and a genuine bisexual.

by Anonymousreply 28August 29, 2025 4:50 PM

IRCC, Madonna's brother didn't like Ingrid and called her manipulative in his book. He was a pretty gross person so if he disliked her then it really says something.

by Anonymousreply 29August 29, 2025 5:01 PM

R10 Jenny was banging Angelina Jolie too?

by Anonymousreply 30August 29, 2025 5:28 PM

As an eldergay, I often get Ingrid Casares and Ingrid Chavez mixed up.

by Anonymousreply 31August 29, 2025 5:38 PM

R31 Me as well! I was going to ask whether she was with Prince first or Madonna. All these years I thought they were one and the same.

by Anonymousreply 32August 29, 2025 6:24 PM

I haven't been able to tell Dylan McDermott and Dermot Mulroney apart for over 30 years now.

by Anonymousreply 33August 29, 2025 6:31 PM

R33 the only reason I can tell Jeff Bridges, Jeff Daniels, William Hurt and Bill Pullman apart is because I know 2 of them are dead.

I have to check Wikipedia to verify which 2.

by Anonymousreply 34August 29, 2025 6:39 PM

Who *doesn't* mix up Ingrid Thulin and Ursula Theiss?

by Anonymousreply 35August 29, 2025 6:42 PM

[quote]But didn't Christopher Ciccone, in his book about his sister, refute this rags to riches tale, saying she had financial support from her family and an existing network of contacts?

She still lived in a shithole. Her story was bogus but her living arrangements weren’t. She didn’t want to work. Money doesn’t last forever. In that book Madonna: A Rebel Life they go into it even deeper. Madonna told Christopher to come out to NYC and be one of her dancers twice. She said he could stay with her. Each time he showed up she said he couldn’t stay there. lol Madonna told the audience on her last tour that she traded blowjobs for showers. She’s not exactly covering it up anymore. I don’t know if she was simply naive or pathological. She was horrendous to everyone who was around her in her early NYC days and was fearless. For someone who was basically so sheltered (no tv, forced to go to confession every single day, no tampons allowed until after marriage) that’s pretty astounding. I guess anything was better than living in Michigan.

Madonna is a really odd duck. Her biographer says that Madonna was an empty vessel and basically just took on a million different personas depending on who she was around. The book is well over a thousand pages. The audio book is 41 hours long. It’s insane but all sourced and interviewed.

Madonna likes controlling people and she can control Ingrid. I think Debi Mazer is officially her oldest friend but she rarely sees her which is probably why they’re still friends.

Madonna is a nightmare but Ingrid is certifiably nuts. Ingrid had a lot of contacts in Miami and comes from a rich family.

Sandra is a strong personality and that’s something Madonna can’t deal with. That’s been stated a million times. Her last two marriages failed because of it. She can’t stand not being in control of those around her and Sandra can be pretty scary and in your face if you piss her off. Ingrid is never going to do that.

by Anonymousreply 36August 29, 2025 7:04 PM

Sandra looks like a bee stung every one of her features.

by Anonymousreply 37August 29, 2025 7:16 PM

[quote]Madonna would call her up in the middle of the night, get her a plane to come fuck her at her hotel.

Tee hee.

Fuck? What's that sound like, cupped-palms clapping?

by Anonymousreply 38August 29, 2025 7:17 PM

[quote]Madonna has always had deep friendships with gay men and was hugely pro-gay at a time when it was very controversial.

MARY!

Being "pro gay" was NOT "very controversial" at ALL in the 80s-90s!

Oh, and Sandra Bernhard has always been out of her mind, especially the very second the focus of attention moves away from her. She used to be fun, but now she's just a rancid know-it-all.

by Anonymousreply 39August 29, 2025 7:18 PM

It was controversial r39.

by Anonymousreply 40August 29, 2025 7:25 PM

The Madonna as "Savior to the Gays" is like The Myth of Marsha, it won't go away!

Just because some flyover pre-teens discovered Madonna and their own gayness when the True Blue album was released, it doesn't mean any other gays were relying on her for anything in the mid-80s!

by Anonymousreply 41August 29, 2025 7:31 PM

Nobody said Madonna was "savior to gays," just that she was very pro-gay in a time when that was practically unheard of for a mainstream public figure. She was vocal about AIDS awareness as well. She helped to normalize gay men in the mainstream public's consciousness.

by Anonymousreply 42August 29, 2025 7:34 PM

Madonna got involved with AIDS but she used gays as props from 1990-1993. She wasn’t some big savior. She got involved but others did too. She was totally silent during the Guy Ritchie error.

by Anonymousreply 43August 29, 2025 7:35 PM

R42, they actually did on here countless times.

by Anonymousreply 44August 29, 2025 7:35 PM

Great interview with Madonna re: gay rights.

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by Anonymousreply 45August 29, 2025 7:36 PM

Madonna probably has sex with women opportunistically but men have more value to her as both conquests and consorts.

by Anonymousreply 46August 29, 2025 8:12 PM

Men have more value in society if you want to achieve success.

by Anonymousreply 47August 29, 2025 8:15 PM

Wow. Madonna's mother birthed babies in 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960 and 1962. She died of breast cancer in 1963. In 1966, her dad married the family's housekeeper, and she birthed babies in 1967, 1668, and 1969. Catholics....

by Anonymousreply 48August 29, 2025 8:43 PM

[quote] Being "pro gay" was NOT "very controversial" at ALL in the 80s-90s!

Retarded.

by Anonymousreply 49August 29, 2025 8:53 PM

Uhm, r49?

You are aware we're talking about the 1980s and not the 1880s, right?

by Anonymousreply 50August 29, 2025 11:35 PM

r50 being pro gay was very risky for public figures in the 80s.

by Anonymousreply 51August 29, 2025 11:48 PM

Madonna has had affairs with plenty of women. I don’t think she’s ever been in love with one but the again I’m not sure she’s been in love with a man either. Her infatuations with anyone of either sex tend to be more about a power dynamic, whether she is dominating or the one being dominated. That is what she gets off on.

by Anonymousreply 52August 29, 2025 11:57 PM

[quote] It’s out of order for Sandra not to want her girlfriend to be showing her snatch to random people? Really?

It's not a problem that she would not want it, but it's absolutely a problem she ordered another adult not to do something.

by Anonymousreply 53August 30, 2025 12:04 AM

I like both Madonna and Sandra B. as performers, but they have both been emotionally immature for their entire adult lives.

by Anonymousreply 54August 30, 2025 12:06 AM

[quote] In 1966, her dad married the family's housekeeper, and she birthed babies in 1967, 1668, and 1969. Catholics....

...and time travelers!

by Anonymousreply 55August 30, 2025 12:07 AM

Madonna said that the Supremes were more important than the Beatles.

And they kind of were, right?

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by Anonymousreply 56August 30, 2025 3:55 AM

Sandra's friendship with Belinda has been solid for decades, and that's more important than Madonna, right?

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by Anonymousreply 57August 30, 2025 4:39 AM

Sandra outed Belinda as bi in one of her shows.

by Anonymousreply 58August 30, 2025 5:41 AM

[quote]R48 Wow. Madonna's mother birthed babies in 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960 and 1962.

What a whore. Learn to keep your legs closed!

by Anonymousreply 59August 30, 2025 6:20 AM

I didn’t birth no babies!

by Anonymousreply 60August 30, 2025 7:25 AM

R34 Check Wikipedia again; only one of them is dead.

by Anonymousreply 61August 30, 2025 7:43 AM

R34 for was probably confusing Bill Pullman with Bill Paxton. I used to do that often.

by Anonymousreply 62August 30, 2025 8:21 AM

R56, no, that is just something people on Lipstick Alley believe. The Supremes are great but The Beatles were far more important to music.

by Anonymousreply 63August 30, 2025 7:25 PM

The Supremes more important than the Beatles!? Good Christ.

by Anonymousreply 64August 30, 2025 8:05 PM

The Supremes didn’t write music. They whisper-cooed before Janet. They’re pretty much forgotten. The Beatles are one of the most important bands in history. That’s why Michael Jackson bought their catalogue.

by Anonymousreply 65August 30, 2025 8:07 PM

R65, come on, they are not forgotten, that's just an extreme statement. The Beatles were far more important but don't just dismiss The Supremes by claiming they are forgotten.

by Anonymousreply 66August 30, 2025 8:14 PM

I’m a big fan of The Rolling Stones but never got the Beatles.

by Anonymousreply 67August 30, 2025 8:31 PM

R56, Madonna grew up in Rochester Hills, a nothern suburb of Detroit. Motown music was always on the radio, so the Supremes were a big influence on her. The Beatles were what her older brothers listened to, so they influenced her subliminally. She never said one was more important than the other though.

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by Anonymousreply 68August 30, 2025 8:47 PM

[quote] come on, they are not forgotten, that's just an extreme statement. The Beatles were far more important but don't just dismiss The Supremes by claiming they are forgotten.

The people who were around for The Supremes are all but dead now. Diana Ross eclipsed them and even she is disappearing from the public’s mind. This is simply the reality. Ask anyone under 50 about Motown and they’ll look at you like you have two heads. It was a brief moment in time 60 years ago.

by Anonymousreply 69August 30, 2025 9:22 PM

Madonna had no interest in music. Her lie about being around all black girls was debunked by her brother. According to Madonna she lived in the ghetto. She came from a middle class family. She was all about dance, not music. Her father didn’t let them do anything outside of academics. Music equaled classical and taking piano lessons. Popular culture was banned from the household. No tv in the house, only books. Madonna was isolated until her mid-teens when she snuck away to late night discos with her gay high school teacher. It blew her mind. She didn’t even know what a gay person was and she suddenly saw men kissing men. Her father would have locked her in her room permanently if he found out.

I think her brother’s Christopher’s relationship with their “evil” stepmother Joan was so strong because she helped smoothed things out with their father. Not that they ever spoke about it but he at least had an ally in the house after Madonna outed him.

Say what you will about their father but he seemingly isn’t impressed by her and treats them all the same and chose to live a hardworking life. Madonna had to beg him to take any financial help she wanted to give him. She invested in their vineyard business. That’s about all. She barely would accept a John Deere lawn mower from her. Madonna got where she is because of him and that Italian Midwest work ethic he instilled in her. He gave her something to rebel against. She now says that he wouldn’t give her a dime when she moved to NYC and was horrified by her living arrangements because he wanted her to come home.

by Anonymousreply 70August 30, 2025 9:31 PM

[quote] HE barely would accept a John Deere lawn mower from her

by Anonymousreply 71August 30, 2025 9:32 PM

Madonna's father Silvio Ciccone turned 94 this summer.

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by Anonymousreply 72August 30, 2025 10:54 PM

Madonna looks a lot like her father.

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by Anonymousreply 73August 30, 2025 10:55 PM

R72, I am seriously impressed that he is still alive. He outlived Christopher. But, then, who didn't?

by Anonymousreply 74August 30, 2025 10:56 PM

R70, that was the lie all those rock stars back in the day used--some variation of "I was poor" or "I grew up among black people". Nobody can get away with that now because of social media. Regardless, Madonna's story is fascinating. She really did live in horrible apartments back in the day, apartments that would horrify most people.

by Anonymousreply 75August 30, 2025 10:58 PM

[quote]I haven't been able to tell Dylan McDermott and Dermot Mulroney apart for over 30 years now.

Me neither. And I went to college with Dermot.

by Anonymousreply 76August 30, 2025 11:04 PM
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