Madonna donated staggering £2million to Kabbalah groups

Spiritual advice for Madonna hasn't come cheap - she handed over close to £2m to the Kabbalah religious group in one year alone.

Tax filings for her charitable foundation, called Ray of Light Foundation, revealed a total of £1.75m was given to the Kabbalah Centre of Los Angeles.

A further £2,600 was given to an offshoot of the group, Spirituality for Kids. The money is believed to have paid for books and other items to be used in schools.

Huge donations: Madonna and adopted son David Banda arrive at the Kabbalah Centre in New York last month; Madonna donated nearly £2million to the religion in one year

The figures are contained in the 2007 tax filings to the US taxman for her Ray of Light Foundation.

According to reports in the US while Kabbalah benefited from her generosity no money was given to her other main charity, Raising Malawi.

Despite adopting a son David from the impoverished African country Madonna, 50, did not make any charitable donations to groups working in the country.

Madonna's other sizeable charity donations include £200,000 to the Mobilization Against AIDS charity and £10,000 to the TJ Martell Foundation for Cancer Research.

The singer has a £300m fortune and ticket sales from her last tour grossed over £60m.

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Having divorced husband Guy Ritchie after four years of marriage she is reported to be giving him a cash lump sum of £12m.

Ritchie will keep their 1,200 acre Ashcombe House country estate in Wiltshire which is worth £20 million.

The film director will also keep his £3 million Punchbowl pub in London.

In one of the biggest celebrity break-ups of 2008 the singer petitioned for divorce on the grounds of 40-year-old Ritchie's 'unreasonable behaviour'.

The couple were granted a 'quickie divorce' at London's High Court in December.

The couple will share custody of their sons, Rocco, eight, and three-year-old adopted David. Madonna's 12-year-old daughter Lourdes, from a previous relationship, is expected to live in America with her mother.

Madonna and Ritchie were briefly reunited over Christmas for a service at the London Kabbalah Centre.

But they left in separate cars and Madonna had dinner with close friend Gwyneth Paltrow and husband Chris Martin.