Jose Canseco Says Madonna Requested Nearly Naked Photos of Him Covered in Oil

Fans may remember Juiced, former Major League Baseball player Jose Canseco's tell-all book about steroids in baseball. They might not be aware of his lesser-known work, the Beefcake Book.

Canseco, 61, joined legendary sports photographer Michael Zagaris on the "Sources Tell Jeff Passan" podcast where the pair told host Passan, 45, about the lengths the former Oakland A went to in order to appease Madonna.

"Madonna [wanted] to see what I look like without my uniform on," Canseco recalled on the Tuesday, June 30 episode. "So I spoke with Z about taking some pictures, not nude but pretty close. Madonna wanted front view, side view, back view, whole combinations, just to see what I really look like, what she was getting herself into."

Zagaris, 81, then stepped in to tell the story of how he took those photos, which came after batting practice and before a game.

"So we came in, Jose strips down, oiled up his body," he recalled. "We started out, I laid on the ground and Jose is laying his bat out and I'm at the bottom of the bat shooting up. [Former A's third base coach] Renee Lachemann, he forgot something in the clubhouse, walks in, almost tripped over me, looks at both of us and I go, ‘Lach.' He goes, ‘I don't even want to know.'"

Zagaris called them "beefcake" photos, and Canseco said Madonna, 67, received the images well.

"She wanted me to marry her so she must have liked it," he said. "I was never attracted to her. Never wanted to do anything with her. She chased me around, called me at the clubhouse all the time."

Canseco has talked about his non-relationship with Madonna in the past. In a 2008 interview with Us Weekly, he insisted that Madonna wanted to have a baby with him.

"She had a Cuban child and wanted another one," he said. "She wanted to get married and have a child with me - she wanted a Cuban child."

Canseco also recalled a time he was at her house when she came on to him, despite him being married to his ex-wife, Esther Canseco, at the time.

"We went downstairs and she came over and said, ‘What would you do if I kissed you?' and then sat on my lap and kissed me," he recalled.

Despite Madonna being "infatuated" with Canseco, has he put it to Passan, he insists nothing ever happened between the two - or any other woman outside of his marriage.

"There were so many damn women it was such a great time," he said, before revealing he was a frequent guest at the Playboy mansion, where he had his own parking spot.

"I was really shy and quiet around women and I think that's what they really liked about me," he said.

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This story was originally published June 30, 2026 at 4:58 PM.