Madonna's Gym Lacks Necessary Permits
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The Material Girl is having problems with her México City fitness club.
Just days after its ballyhooed opening, Madonna's Hard Candy Fitness lacks a security plan and a land use permit, local authorities said Wednesday. As a result, the club is in danger of being shut down.
Madonna and her people have until Friday to get a land use permit, though they will be allowed to turn in other necessary documents later, said Demetrio Sodi, the chief of the Miguel Hidalgo municipality where the gym is located.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}"If they don't have a land use permit, they will not be able to operate," Sodi told the Spanish-language station Televisa.
Sodi said the gym also needs to present a certificate showing it has parking.
He said that when he was told last week that the gym would open Monday, they "didn't have any permits" but he granted a special permit for the inauguration.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Madonna was in Mexico City Monday night for the ribbon cutting and taught a dance class for 20 hand-picked members with music by Paul Oakenfold, the DJ who opened her last tour.
She said in a statement last week that she wanted to use México "as a place to fine-tune our brand and then expand it to other countries and, in the long term, develop a global brand that includes the United States."
Membership at the gym costs about $159 a month. It costs $827 to join and that includes the first two months.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Sodi, a longtime political figure in Mexico, is the uncle of Latin Grammy winner Thalia.
Based on reporting by the Associated Press.
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