Madonna and Guy Ritchie to split - it’s official now…
After 7½ of years of marriage, the couple of which have been filled with speculation from the outside that it would end in divorce, it appears that 40-year-old director Guy Ritchie and 50-year-old Madonna are finally divorcing.
The couple, which have three children: Lourdes, 12 (not Ritchie’s biologically), Rocco, 8 and David, 3 (adopted from Malawi in 2006) released a statement on Wednesday confirming the rumors that read:
“Madonna and Guy Ritchie have agreed to divorce after 7½ years of marriage, their representatives confirmed today. They have both requested that the media maintain respect for their family at this difficult time.”
According to reports, the marriage was doomed about three years ago on Madonna’s 47th birthday, when she fell off a horse and broke four ribs, her collarbone, her scapula and a knuckle in her left hand, and later called the accident “the most painful event of my life”.
A “family friend” said Madonna expected Guy Ritchie to drop everything to be by her side. Ritchie, though, “approached the whole thing in what [Madonna] called ‘a very British way’: instead of smothering her with sympathy, he said, ‘Come on, darling, you’re a tough bird – you’ll be back on the horse in no time;” the friend was quoted as saying.
Madonna was apparently so pissed off by her husband’s lack of sympathy that she told him their marriage was a mistake, and that he was not her “soul mate” after all.
If you believe the rumors, which some in the media do, it is clear that Madonna’s behavior had an emasculating effect on Ritchie. Combine that with the fact that Ritchie’s movies since the marriage were unsuccessful in some part because of her. “Swept Away” for example which starred Madonna as a spoiled socialite was ridiculed.
There is no doubt that Guy Ritchie, a ‘public-school’ (where rich people in England go to school as opposed to “state-school”) ‘geezer’ (British slang for cool dude) in all likelihood suffered from the image that being second fiddle to Madonna gave him.
So now, with Ritchie’s movie “RockNRolla” (starring Gerard Butler) releasing across North America on October 31st (currently the film is in limited release in select cities) and receiving very good reviews, and Madonna in the midst of her succesful world tour called “Sticky and Sweet” (she’s currently in Toronto and the tour ends December 21st in Sao Paulo, Brazil) there seems like no better time for the power-couple to split publicly.
So, naturally the question arises as to who will fare better in life after the marriage is dissolved. Did the up-and-coming London born director and is this the last and final curtain for the Kabbalah-loving Queen of Pop? Or will the time that Ritchie and Madonna spent together seem inconsequential for the the talented couple in the future as was the case when Madonna split from her first ex-husband Sean Penn?
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intelligentOne
Who will fare better post-divorce? First, this is a stupid question. They are incomparable. It’s like comparing filet mignon to a hamburger (Madonna clearly being the filet mignon). Madonna’s career has ALWAYS been better than Guy’s and she is always at the top. WIth or without Guy Ritchie, Madonna was, is, and will be successful. Guy, on the other hand, clearly had some major flops during his marriage to Madonna- but if you are going to be so lame and WEAK because of a woman then you deserve to be unsuccessful. Period.
Oct 19th, 2008
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