Aspiring singer jailed for 14 months for leaking Madonna album tracks online

A wannabe singer has been sentenced to 14 months in prison for stealing and selling unreleased Madonna songs. Israeli Adi Lederman, who once auditioned for the country’s top TV song competition, A Star Is Born, admitted to hacking into the computers of people linked to Madonna and copying her records. Lederman, 39 and from Tel Aviv, was also fined £2,575. The court said it hoped the sentence would act as a deterrent to others.

He is not someone with a criminal mentality, but rather, a very fired-up and impassioned collector who went too far

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Madonna went on Instagram late last year to urge fans not to listen to unreleased songs stolen from her latest album Rebel Heart, which were leaked online. “I have been violated as a human and an artist,” she wrote. When she complained to the authorities in Israel, Lederman was tracked down and brought to court. The aspiring singer gained notoriety in Israel after appearing on the reality show in 2012. When asked by one of the show’s judges what he does for a living, he responded: “Mainly wasting my life away, it seems, because I’m told that I should be on stage.” He sang Stevie Wonder’s Don’t You Worry About A Thing.

It was an invasion into my life - creatively, professionally and personally (that) remains a deeply devastating and hurtful experience

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