Revealed: how New York's old money shuts its doors against the nouveau riche:

"Madonna, another famous reject, had wanted to live on the street even after making the mistake of posing nude for Playboy. Her efforts to make amends by arriving at her interview wearing black, teamed with pearls and a gold crucifix, were to no avail: the apartment in the San Remo apartment building would not be hers. 'If we let her in,' one board member told the New York Daily News, 'we'd have to let everybody in.'"

LOL!