AbstractThis paper is concerned with the boundary behavior of the unique convex solution to a singular Dirichlet problem for the Monge–Ampère equation\operatorname{det}D^{2}u=b(x)g(-u),\quad u<0,\,x\in\Omega,\qquad u|_{\partial% \Omega}=0,where Ω is a strictly convex and bounded smooth domain in{\mathbb{R}^{N}}, with{N\geq 2},{g\in C^{1}((0,\infty),(0,\infty))}is decreasing in{(0,\infty)}and satisfies{\lim_{s\rightarrow 0^{+}}g(s)=\infty}, and{b\in C^{\infty}(\Omega)}is positive in Ω, but may vanish or blow up on the boundary. We find a new structure condition ongwhich plays a crucial role in the boundary behavior of such solution.