Soon-to-be divorcees: Madonna and Guy Ritchie
Surprise! Surprise! What a surprise! It's not like what we previously thought--Madonna and Guy Ritchie might get divorcing after the completion of her Stick and Sweet tour in November. It now comes much earlier, the couple's publicists confirmed their split today on October 15 in a statement to the media.
"Madonna and Guy Ritchie have agreed to divorce after seven and a half years of marriage. They have both requested that the media maintain respect for their family at this difficult time. A final settlement has not been agreed upon yet."
Madonna, 50, and Guy Ritchie, 10 years of her junior, married in December 2000 at Skibo Castle in the Scottish Highlands, Scotland. They have two sons together - the biological son Rocco Ritchie, 7, and adopted son from Malawi David Banda, 3.
Madonna and Guy Ritchie pictures, click on to see an enlarged version. (Images credit: PR Photos)
Madonna and Guy Ritchie divorce seemingly set to be an ugly battle, because Perez Hilton is already revealing that the pair did not has a pre-nuptial:
Sources confirm exclusively to PerezHilton.com that Madonna and Guy do NOT have a prenuptial agreement.
"Guy is a gold digger who was in from the get-go for the money," a source tells us. "He forced her to have no prenup. He is nothing more than a wolf in a great sheep outfit!"
Madonna was married to actor Sean Penn from 1985 and divorced in 1989. Since then the Like a Virgin singer had romantic links to porn star Tony Ward, rapper Vanilla Ice, NBA player Dennis Rodman and fitness trainer Carlos Leon with whom Madonna had a daughter named Lourdes Leon Ciccone, now 12, before her marriage to Ritchie. Earlier this year, Madonna became an epic character in Alex Rodriguez and Cynthia Rodriguez marriage foes.