Madonna purchases Beverly Hills home

MADONNA, who rails against the shallowness of consumer culture in her song American Life, has just spent £7m (€9.77m) on a new home in Beverly Hills, reports the New York Daily News.

She and husband Guy Ritchie have bought the 11,600 square foot mansion with seven bedrooms and 15 bathrooms from actress Sela Ward.

The French-Norman-style house just off Sunset Boulevard also has a screening room, library, gym, sauna, two guest houses, a tennis court, steam room and 60 ft swimming pool, reports the newspaper.

Madonna put her previous house, which she bought for £4m (€5.58) from Diane Keaton in 2000, up for sale last month for £7m (