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Madonna has no idea where all her personal items are: lawyer

The Material Girl’s got so much stuff she lost track of intimate mementos including a love letter from the rapper Tupac Shakur and a pair of worn, white satin panties she sent to another ex-boyfriend, Madonna’s lawyer argued in courtThursday.

“She has a lot of personal items. You can imagine over the years she’s collected a lot of personal items,” the singer’s attorney, Brendan O’Rourke, said in Manhattan Supreme Court.

“Some of them are in closets. Some of them are in safes. Does she know where all her personal items are? No, but that doesn’t’ make them any less her personal items,” O’Rourke argued.

Madonna’s waging a legal battle against a former friend for consigning over 20 items to the New York-based auction house Gotta Have It! Collectibles for a special rock and roll-themed sale. Tupac sent the hand-written breakup letter to Madonna from jail in 1995, saying “I never meant to hurt you.” She mailed the worn panties to another former beau, party promoter Peter Shue.

Earlier this week Judge Gerald Lebovitz halted the auction, which was scheduled to start on July 19.

But now Madonna’s ex-pal, art consultant Darlene Lutz, is asking the judge to reverse his order and allow the auction to proceed.

Lutz had helped Madonna move out of her Miami home in the 1990s and a box of the pop star’s possessions ended up in the then-pal’s Queens storage facility.

Lutz’s attorney, Judd Grossman, argued that Madonna’s suit came too late as the statute of limitations for theft ran out “20 years ago.”

Grossman urged the judge not to make an exception “because Madonna has so many items that she can’t keep track of them.”

Judge Lebovitz took Grossman’s point.

“How can there be a separate rule for somebody who has lots of possessions and someone who doesn’t?” Lebovitz asked.

The parties are returning to court Thursday afternoon for continued argument and a ruling whether the auction can proceed.