Madonna's trip to New York last week didn't include supporting her illustrator Jeffrey Fulvimari's opening at gallery hanahou in SoHo, but she may have had a good excuse. The Grand Dame of Pop was allegedly chased through the city by two cars on her way home in a limo from her appearance on David Letterman, forcing her to call 911, according to perezhilton.com. The NYPD had no record of it.


Madge worked with Fulvimari on her children's book "The English Roses" - but he says the book isn't the extent of Madonna's literary interests.


"Madonna can't go out that much," Fulvimari told us at the shop, which sells products by illustrators. "So she reads. A lot." Madge even shares literary agent Andrew Wylie with the great writer Salman Rushdie, he added.


Still, it wasn't Madonna's smarts that first caught the artist's eye. "I first saw her at a club called Negril in the East Village. I went there in '82 when I was 19. I walked in the room and there were break dancers - and no one knew what break dancing was - and then in the center of them with her cap pulled down low was this girl.


"She had peroxide hair and ... liquid eyeliner, and she was just totally glowing. The image was burned on my mind. I was like, 'How does she know how to be like that?' "