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Madonna is reportedly dating a much younger man amid her custody battle with her ex-husband Guy Ritchie over son Rocco. The 57-year-old singer is said to have a special relationship with Aboubakar Soumahoro, a 25-year-old model who used to work at the famed English department store Harrods.

The Queen of Pop's friends said that the pair were introduced by a mutual friend at a party last November. Rumor has it, Aboubakar visited Madonna at her London home weeks after they met and had since spent a lot of time together.

"They were at a party together back in November when they got chatting, and hit it off straight away," a source close to the singer said. "Over the next few weeks, they got together a couple more times and she invited him over to her place, where they sat up all night talking."

"The next thing we heard, he had quit his job and had gone out to meet her on tour. It's obviously a very close friendship," the source added. A spokesman for Madonna declined to comment on claims of her latest relationship with the model, who is from the Ivory Coast and is known to his friends as Brooklin.

This is not the first time that Madonna has been linked to a much younger man. In 2010, the "B***h I'm Madonna" hitmaker dated dancer Brahim Zaibat, who was 23 years old at the time.