(AFP) The U.S. singer Madonna and her husband, British film director Guy Ritchie, announced Wednesday that they decided to divorce after more than seven years of marriage. "Madonna and Guy Ritchie have agreed to divorce after seven and a half years of marriage," he said in a statement the office of the spokesman for Madonna in New York, Liz Rosenberg. According to the text "each requested the media respect for his family at this difficult time." The couple has two sons: Rocco, for eight years and David, a child of three years adopted in Malawi. The two celebrities were married in Scotland in December 2000, when the singer published "Music", eighth album and one of the most successful careers of pop culture icon of the international over the past three decades. Both live in London and in a residential area of Wiltshire in England, owned by Ritchie, with his two sons and Lourdes, daughter of 12 years of Madonna result of a relationship with a professor of gymnastics, Carlos Leon. The "queen of pop" is the singer who earns more money in the world, according to Forbes magazine, which placed it at the top of the artists of the genre. The news of the divorce had been advanced on Wednesday by The Sun, a British tabloid that published an article under the title "We can not support the sham" marriage. A source "very well placed" told this newspaper that the repeated disputes over the past few months and will of Madonna, 50, of adopting another child, were the causes of their separation. The communique on divorce states that Madonna and Ritchie have not reached agreement on the modalities of divorce, which will probably consist of an amicable settlement and multimillionaire.
miércoles, octubre 15, 2008
MADONNA AND GUY RITCHIE CONFIRM DIVORCE
(AFP) The U.S. singer Madonna and her husband, British film director Guy Ritchie, announced Wednesday that they decided to divorce after more than seven years of marriage. "Madonna and Guy Ritchie have agreed to divorce after seven and a half years of marriage," he said in a statement the office of the spokesman for Madonna in New York, Liz Rosenberg. According to the text "each requested the media respect for his family at this difficult time." The couple has two sons: Rocco, for eight years and David, a child of three years adopted in Malawi. The two celebrities were married in Scotland in December 2000, when the singer published "Music", eighth album and one of the most successful careers of pop culture icon of the international over the past three decades. Both live in London and in a residential area of Wiltshire in England, owned by Ritchie, with his two sons and Lourdes, daughter of 12 years of Madonna result of a relationship with a professor of gymnastics, Carlos Leon. The "queen of pop" is the singer who earns more money in the world, according to Forbes magazine, which placed it at the top of the artists of the genre. The news of the divorce had been advanced on Wednesday by The Sun, a British tabloid that published an article under the title "We can not support the sham" marriage. A source "very well placed" told this newspaper that the repeated disputes over the past few months and will of Madonna, 50, of adopting another child, were the causes of their separation. The communique on divorce states that Madonna and Ritchie have not reached agreement on the modalities of divorce, which will probably consist of an amicable settlement and multimillionaire.
