ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON — The show-business marriage that began in a Scottish castle came to an end in a drab London courtroom Friday as Madonna and Guy Ritchie were granted a preliminary decree of divorce.
Papers released by the court said Madonna petitioned for divorce on the basis of Ritchie’s “unreasonable behavior,” but did not elaborate.
Judge Phillip Waller ruled that he did not need to apply family law in the case _ meaning that he accepted an agreement reached by the couple over their assets and children.
Neither appeared at the brief court session, in which “Ciccone M L v Ritchie G S” was one of 17 cases given a preliminary decree. The divorce can become final after six weeks and a day,.
British news media reported, without identifying the sources of their information, that the couple had reached a settlement that would see the pop superstar keep the majority of her estimated 300 million pound ($445 million) fortune and share custody with Ritchie of their two children: Rocco, 8, and David Banda, 3, who was adopted from Malawi in 2006.
Madonna has a 12-year-old daughter, Lourdes, from a previous relationship with personal trainer Carlos Leon.
Requests for comment from representatives for the couple were not returned.
An agreement on terms would avert an expensive courtroom battle like the one between former Beatle Paul McCartney and model Heather Mills. Mills has said the media coverage of the rancorous divorce had pushed her to the brink of suicide; McCartney compared the process to going through hell.
Madonna and Ritchie, director of “Snatch” and “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels,” married in December 2000 at Skibo Castle in the Scottish Highlands.
Madonna and Ritchie announced last month they were divorcing. They own homes in London, Los Angeles and New York, and a 1,200-acre (480 hectare) retreat in England.
Suri Cruise, mom Katie Holmes and two bodyguards were out walking the streets of the Village this week. After being carried, Suri wanted down. She took her mothers hand and started running, and ran all the way home.
WOW THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE… DEFINITELY NEED TO GET THIS ISSUE.. SUCH A BEAUTIFUL HUMAN BEING.. CHECK OUT THOSE LIPS OF ANGIE’s… hmm hmm.. She has Italian in her blood..
Brad Pitt’s long-awaited photos of Angelina Jolie for W , shot in August, are finally coming out. Today the cover, featuring Jolie breastfeeding one of the new twins Knox and Vivienne is out. The whole thing hits newsstands next week and was shot at the house the couple and their six kids have leased in France, Chateau Miraval.
People magazine has published the $14 million photos of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s weeks-old twins, Vivienne Marcheline and Knox Leon.
The cover shows Pitt and Jolie snuggling the babies in a photo taken last week at the Chateau Miraval in Provence, France, where the Jolie-Pitt clan have hunkered down in recent months. There is also a shot of the couple’s 2-year-old daughter Shiloh holding Vivienne.
The twins were born July 12 in Nice, France. They are the latest additions to the ever-expanding Jolie-Pitt family, which also includes 7-year-old Maddox, 4-year-old Pax and 3-year-old Zahara.
“It is chaos, but we are managing it and having a wonderful time,” Jolie, 33, is quoted as telling People
“Shiloh calls them her babies. She and Z pick out their clothes and help change and hold them. It’s sweet _ they are little mommies,” Jolie tells the magazine, to which Pitt, 44, adds: “This is Mad’s fourth/fifth time becoming an older bro. He’s asking us when we can have more.”
Jolie says she and Pitt were “in shock and could not stop laughing” when they learned they were having twins, and denied speculation that they had conceived the children through in-vitro fertilization.
“If they had been conceived through IVF, we would have been happy to discuss it,” she says. “But we have been fortunate never to have had fertility problems.”
As for the twins’ personalities, Pitt says, “Viv is proving to resemble Ange in spirit, attitude and physicality. And Knox, a bit of me.”
Source The Huffington Post and People Mag.
At Least they Donated the MONEY to CHARITY… YES BRAD AND ANGIE… YA GO.. DID CLAY??
In this Jan. 21, 2008 file photo, Nicole Kidman and her husband Keith Urban are seen in the stands at the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne, Australia. The Oscar-winning Kidman said swimming in Australian Outback “fertility waters” during production of her latest film may have contributed to her unexpected pregnancy. (AP Photo/Rick Stevens, FILE)
SYDNEY, Australia — Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman said swimming in Australian Outback waterfalls may promote fertility and might have contributed to her unexpected pregnancy over the past year.
People hits newsstands on New York and LA on Wednesday, and there new cover is a doozy. American Idol alum Clay Aiken and newborn son Parker pose for their first photos AND Aiken officially comes out.
Parker Foster Aiken was born on August 8 in North Carolina to Aiken’s good friend Jaymes Foster, 50. The pair met when Aiken was a contestant on American Idol.
He was in “Spamalot” on Broadway earlier this year and is returning now.
Aiken has long remained silent about his sexuality. While he has legions of female fans called Claymates, but has also been referred to for years as Gayken by Kathy Griffin and has been allegedly solicited gay sex online.
