Following French Legal Threat, Madonna Nixes Swastika From Video

For a change, Madonna is actually averting a fuss.

To avoid threatened legal action, Madonna's Tuesday MDNA Tour stop in Nice, France, didn't feature a swastika superimposed over French National Front party leader Marine Le Pen's photo in a big-screen video package, E! Online reports.

The entertainment icon and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer instead superimposed a question mark onto Le Pen's forehead instead of the infamous Nazi insignia during her "Nobody Knows Me" performance, following the National Front party threatening her with a lawsuit should she once more associate Le Pen with all for which the symbol stands.

"As far as I know, Madonna has never changed a video clip," National Front spokesman Gael Nofri told France's Agence France-Presse. "This is proof that our arguments were valid. This is excellent news."

The usual montage includes various political notables juxtaposed with monetary and religious symbols, and the original edit featured the swastika-tagged Le Pen before a picture of Adolf Hitler. For what it's worth, former National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen was previously convicted of acts that incited racial hatred, including incidents of minimizing the Holocaust. Madonna previously displayed the unaltered video during a Paris performance three weeks before the Nice engagement, the last date on her European tour.

Before conceding to the National Front's demands, the 54-year-old entertainer made headlines publicly advocating the release of Pussy Riot, the all-female punk band facing a two-year prison term in Russia on hooliganism charges after a Russian orthodox church protest of Russian president Vladimir Putin.

In the week following the July 20 "Dark Knight Rises" massacre in Aurora, Colo., she flouted police demands and national firearm bans at a stop in Scotland when she and accompanying dancers brandished and fired fake pistols and assault rifles.