{"id":260181,"date":"2026-06-09T05:09:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T05:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/260181\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T05:09:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T05:09:13","slug":"madonna-says-billy-idol-stole-her-taxi-during-her-early-nyc-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/260181\/","title":{"rendered":"Madonna Says Billy Idol Stole Her Taxi During Her Early NYC Days"},"content":{"rendered":"

Madonna<\/a> goes way back with Billy Idol<\/a> … she says she’s known him since he was swiping her taxi cabs.<\/p>\n

The pop star recently told Bilt she and Billy both lived at The Music Building during her early days in New York … and they had anything but a meet-cute.<\/p>\n

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Taxis are a hot commodity in the Big Apple, and Madonna recalled a time she had just flagged one down … when Billy himself swooped in.<\/p>\n

Madge recalled … “He steps in front of me with his punk, like, regalia … He didn’t even say ‘sorry’ or ‘thanks’ or nothing.” She said the interaction left her wanting payback.<\/p>\n

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Madonna told the funny story as part of her collab with Bilt<\/a> — a loyalty and rewards program — and she’s helping pay next month’s rent for musicians currently leasing space at The Music Building.<\/p>\n

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She also worked with the fintech company on an exclusive “Confessions II” vinyl, available exclusively for Bilt Members.<\/p>\n

No word if Billy’s getting a copy … but something tells us Madonna’s not going out of her way for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Madonna goes way back with Billy Idol … she says she’s known him since he was swiping her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[85861,13118,9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-260181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-billy-idol","tag-madonna","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}