Ciccone spoke about a 1987 gig during Madonna's Who's That Girl tour, which raised $400,000 for the American Foundation for AIDS Research in Burgoyne's honour. "The AIDS benefit that we did at Madison Square Garden was emotionally taxing for everybody. Especially for [Madonna], because of Martin [Burgoyne]. There had been so many friends of ours who had AIDS."
Madonna told The Times: "What could I do? I loved him. And people with AIDS are treated like they're lepers or something. If they contract AIDS, all their friends disappear. That's not a friend. How could I desert him? He was really my best friend."
Burgoyne went on to manage her first club tour and designed the cover for Madonna's 1983 single 'Burning Up'. After Burgoyne contracted AIDS, Madonna paid for his medication and even convinced her then-husband Sean Penn to fly to Mexico to retrieve a drug that was previously thought to possibly cure the disease.
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