Madonna and Guy Ritchie may finalize their divorce tomorrow, according to the Sun. Maybe I’m jaded but I actually consider this to be pretty quick for a divorce proceeding, especially considering the amount of money involved. However the Sun insists that money wasn’t the big holdup – the main sticking point was over the custody of Madge and Guy’s sons Rocco and David. They’ve agreed to split custody, and the boys will bounce back and forth between New York and London.
MADONNA and GUY RITCHIE will divorce tomorrow, according to papers lodged with the High Court.
It is expected she will keep the bulk of her £300million fortune, despite the British director being entitled to up to half of it.
The stumbling block for the couple up to now was custody of their two boys – eight-year-old Rocco and adopted three-year-old son David.
However a newspaper reports that they have agreed to share guardianship. The lads will split their time between the UK and US, where Madonna now lives.
She will have sole custody of her daughter Lourdes, from a previous relationship. It is believed that full details of any financial settlement will be kept confidential. A source said: “The priority for Guy has always been the children – he has not wanted her money.”
[From the Sun]
I wonder how they’re going to actually split custody. If it’s literally a 50/50 situation that would require the boys to leave school partway through the term each year, and that could be severely disruptive. It sounds like Madonna and Guy have agreed on a deal that’s fair to them, but not necessarily fair to their sons. Hopefully they’ll figure out a way to keep some continuity in the boys’ educations.
The Daily Mail claims that Ritchie refused to “take a penny of the pop star’s cash.” If that’s accurate – and it’s the Daily Mail, so grain of salt and all that – it really speaks a lot to his character and his motivations. Madonna’s people have tried to paint Guy as a money hungry bore who was waited on hand and foot by staff and blew through Madge’s cash. None of their allegations were really believable, and this shows Guy wasn’t with Madonna for the money. Now if someone could explain to me why he was with her, that’d be great.
Header of Madonna at the Gucci/Unicef event last night. Clearly she’s trying to get attention. Or doing a terrible, terrible job of blending in with camouflage.
"Pony rides and face painting don't make for a good parent," Dina Matmos McGreevey emailed to former Jersey love guv and gay seminarian Jim McGreevey last week, demanding that he cancel this coming weekend's 6th birthday party for their daughter because she has custody that week. Do you know what happens to kids whose parents use them as tools of petty revenge? That's right: Tiny Courtney Loves. [
Paul McCartney has revealed that he wants custody of his & Heather Mills’ four-year-old daughter Beatrice -following her recent outbursts on US & UK television. According to Britain’s News of The World newspaper, Paul, 65 has already consulted his legal team, a close friend of the star said: “Paul fears Heather’s lost the plot and needs help. He’s deeply worried. She claimed to the world that her life’s at risk. If that’s true, so is Bea’s and she must be with her dad.” In public Paul McCartney dismisses this week’s frenzy of abusive attacks by estranged wife Heather - but, behind closed doors, private he is distraught and fears she will hound him to his grave.
