By Breaking Celebrity News Staff

It was supposed to be a foundation dedicated to helping women in need of educating themselves into a better life.

But Mary J. Blige’s charity has been exposed as being seriously troubled itself by The New York Post.

The paper is reporting that the charity – which has received backing and donations from big names like Jay-Z and Jada Pinkett Smith – has hundreds of thousands of dollars in missing donations.

It also failed to file federal tax returns for 2010, which were due last November, along with its annual state-charity registration, The Post says.

And the charity is facing two lawsuits – one of $167,252 from a group of musicians who claim they were not paid for their work at a fund-raising gala last year.

The gala was no trifling affair, held on May 3 it was hosted by Queen and featured appearances from Blige herself, Jennifer Hudson and Christina Aguilera.