rushing07 said:

pennylover said:

I also see the character Bette Davis played in "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"

SoulAlive said:

Miles away is good but she had much better ballads from the few previous albums.

Gone, I Deserve It, X-Static Process and especially Nothing Fails which is one of her best songs in my opinion

fuck, but they are dicorced mentaly for months so I guess Madonna may feel better now than let's say 5 months ago. I'm sure she desperately needed this tour, it's rehearsals to get over. She always has been that way.

Really unfortunate for both of them-wish them well. Hope Guy is a man and handles this thing right

nurseV said:

both will find new partners€.

nurseV said:

I feel you.

I'm never gonna claim to know the dynamics of what they had because I don't. But to me, whenever I see him in photos, that dude never seemed genuinely happy.

He just has this energy of discontentment around him. Whenever I see his face in a photograph, his expression is just, like, "errugh, I got Madonna :-/" It's like he got the coveted prize, and, dot, dot, dot.

Hell, even Brad & Angelina look more in love than those two and appear more genuine. And they are as Hollywood as can be.

But I hope him the best.

Mara said:

he went from the hottest up and coming director to being Mr Madonna. i could only imagine the damage that does to ones ego.

Mara said:

Being married to Madonna is probably not the easiest thing in the world.

I'm surprised Madonna was married for this long.

I am not suprised by this news. They have been having problems for awhile, but had to put on a front until the adoption of David was complete. A-Rod is a yummy piece, but I hope he realizes he has an expiration date too.

It lasted twice as long as her first marriage, so I guess she's getting better at it?

Oh well, she'll retain full custody of my fandom in the divorce.

I forget this is her second marriage. It doesn't really bother me. I think she never really liked living in the UK, even though she only lived there half of the time.

Yeah I think she's gonna stay in the US for the rest of her life.

Not really shocked, unfortunately. Wish I could say I was.

ehuffnsd said:

i agree with the above comments. he always, always, always looked so uncomfortable and unhappy in their pictures. and yes, he went from hot to not and being referred to as mr. madonna. a critic described him exactly like that in a review i just read for rocknrolla.

i've never seen one of his films - from afar they look like tarintino knock-offs to me an why watch a knock-off when i can watch the real thing? - but his fans are hoping that the break up will help him focus on his work.

No one can live with her--her ego.

Timmy84 said:

She's gonna move back to New York with the kids.Guy didn't like living in America at all,so that was a major problem right there.

ehuffnsd said:

Yeah,things were rough for Guy.His wife is a larger-than-life icon.During the marriage,no one paid any attention to HIS work.His movies went unnoticed.I think it made him angry and resentful after awhile.

Noel Gallagher recently said this of Madonna:



http://www.mtv.co.uk/chan...ii-minogue

There's probably a lot of truth in that observation.

I thought Madonna fans would have this thread ten pages long by now.

Anywho, if I see her with A-Rod, I'll lose every ounce of respect I have for her. Yeah, yeah, I know. She doesn't give a damn.

SoulAlive said:

She really is starting to look a bit like Jocelyn Wildenstein

Ellie said:

Damn...

I'm sad it's coming to an end, but I've always said that marriage is so outdated these days in the first place.

I don't know why she even tried it again.

In 1990, a year after divorcing Sean Penn, she said marriage was like a contract or something to that matter. So why did she feel that she had to marry again?
[Edited 10/15/08 14:21pm]

Madonna and filmmaker Guy Ritchie announce their divorce


at 15:39 on October 15, 2008, EDT.
By Jennifer Quinn, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS


British director Guy Ritchie, left, with Madonna will divorce after 7 years together. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Sang Tan, file

LONDON - After countless denials of domestic trouble, Madonna and Guy Ritchie announced Wednesday they are divorcing after nearly eight years of marriage.

The couple's announcement brings to an end a showbiz union that spanned the Atlantic and dominated the gossip columns.

Madonna - "Madge" to the British press - and her filmmaker husband were always greater tabloid fodder in England, where they lived. The pop star seemed to take to English life, spending much of her time at the couple's 485-hectare country estate in Wiltshire, and to some ears, adopting a slight British accent.

But in recent years, reports began to accumulate that they were on the rocks. Over the summer, Madonna was linked - unfairly, she said - to the breakup of New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez and his ex-wife Cynthia.

The couple issued a brief statement by their representatives Wednesday, asking for respect from the press for their family's sake.

A financial settlement has not been agreed by the wealthy couple, who also must decide child custody issues.

Madonna and Ritchie, director of "Snatch" and "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels," married in December 2000 at Skibo Castle, in the Scottish Highlands. The couple have two children: Rocco, 8, and David Banda, 3, who was adopted from Malawi in 2006. Madonna also has a 12-year-old daughter, Lourdes, from her relationship with personal trainer Carlos Leon.

The couple are reportedly worth some $525 million, the bulk of that belonging to Madonna. Ritchie has an estimated $35 million fortune. They own homes in London, Los Angeles and New York, and the retreat in Wiltshire.

"Who would have thunk it?" Madonna told Vogue magazine in an interview published in August 2005. "The last thing I thought I would do is marry some laddish, shooting, pubgoing nature lover and the last thing he thought he was going to do was marry some cheeky girl from the Midwest who doesn't take no for an answer!"

In the documentary "I'm Going to Tell You a Secret," Madonna gets behind the bar at a London tavern and offers to get a beer for Ritchie. He grins at her and says, "Please, Mrs. Ritchie, you get in there and pull me a pint."

Madonna was to perform concerts Wednesday and Thursday in Boston as her "Sticky and Sweet" tour continued. Ritchie's latest movie, "RocknRolla," recently opened to mixed reviews.

In London, Ritchie's mother, Lady Amber Leighton, told reporters that the family wouldn't be making any statement to the media.

Lawyers said the couple would likely try to come to an agreement before heading to court.

"The judgment of the court would be to try and assess what they came in with and divide what they built up fairly equally," said David Allison, a lawyer with Family Law in Partnership, a London firm.

The needs of the couple's children will also be factored by the court, as they were in Britain's most recent high-profile celebrity divorce, the battle between former Beatle Paul McCartney and model Heather Mills. In that case, McCartney and Mills fought over money and custody of their young daughter.

Mills received 24.3 million pounds in the divorce after four years of marriage.

"The needs of children figure quite highly, and that was one of the reasons Heather Mills got a gigantic amount of money, despite the fact that the bulk of Sir Paul's money was made before the marriage," Allison said.

The Sun newspaper splashed the split across its front page Wednesday, under the headline: "We're Divorcing."

Madonna, who was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last year, has found lesser success as a screen star, starring in the musical "Evita" and the comedy "Desperately Seeking Susan." Her most notable collaboration with Ritchie was the panned 2002 film "Swept Away."

She married Sean Penn in 1985, but they divorced four years later.

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Associated Press Writer Katy Daigle contributed to this report.


©The Canadian Press, 2008

midnightmover said:

If this is true, she's a dumb bitch.

Happy 12th birthday, Lourdes. (October 14)

Cinnie said:

Damn, her birthday WAS this week! Damn.

Timmy84 said:

Her birthday was yesterday! And it was in the paper's today!