You know, it sounded too good to be true.
In 2000, a few weeks before Guy Ritchie and Madonna tied the knot, the groom promised he wouldn’t touch a cent of Madge’s fortune if the marriage sputtered out. He even offered to make child-support payments to her, even though she was the one with all the money.
Yet two months ago, the Material Girl was calling her hubby a “gold-digger” and insisting that he was looking to cash in. Whereupon Guy fired back, saying through a spokesman that he wanted “not one penny” of her estimated £300 million fortune.
And we all said: “Awwwww… finally, a divorcing star who’s not just in it for the money!”
Oops.
Breaking on the wires at this hour:
The pop queen and the film director were granted a divorce last month, and some reports around the time claimed that Ritchie was walking away without a penny of Madonna’s fortune, estimated at £300 million.
However, a source close to the matter said today that they believed Ritchie would be receiving between 60 and 70 million dollars (£40 million to £47 million) in cash and property which included the couple’s country retreat Ashcombe House in Wiltshire.
A source close to Madonna’s camp was also quoted in the Evening Standard, describing it as “one of the biggest celebrity divorce settlements”.
“You can imagine how Madonna feels,” the source told the newspaper. “She has been very generous to him. It isn’t about being acrimonious. It is just so inaccurate and unfair that people believe he walked away with nothing.”
One source, presumably one of Madonna’s back-up dancers, tells The Evening Standard:
“He is not like some monk running around saying he doesn’t want money. You don’t get money unless you ask for it. And he asked for it. This is one of the biggest celebrity divorce settlements. It is said she is being horrible to him but he is hardly poor Guy.”
To be fair, I suppose Guy wasn’t technically lying when he said he wanted “not one penny” of his wife’s fortune. He didn’t want one penny. He wanted between 6 and 7 billion pennies.
Then again, maybe that’s the equivalent of a pain-and-suffering jury award for having to listen to “American Life” more than the rest of us.
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He didn’t ask for the money. She’s buying off his silence.
I hope that’s the case, Mitch. I really do. I wanted to think that maybe, just maybe, he was not a gold-digging jerk.
Madonna reputation proceeds her. She is a maniplative liar and will say anything about anyone to get any press. Do you remember all the horrible things she said about her step-mother? None of it was true, but it didn’t stop her from saying things.
Guy deserves another 3 million for having to listen to the last 3 albums she made but even worse was listening to her horrible english accent.
This stinks to hell of a Madonna smear job. She couldn’t get the media traction she wanted from ditching Ritchie, so this is a coordinated strike on Ritchie’s foolish “high road”
The truth is; I couldn’t care less. Even more, we are in a world where the woman is the winner of the “Divorce Lottery”. Look at many celebrity divorces, the woman is leaving with millions. I don’t see why Guy Ritchie can’t leave with his slice.
Besides, dealing with a bat-$h!t crazy loon like Madonna is worth something.
Oh c’mon you guys. A jerk? I’d have asked for more. A lot more. In the UK he’s entitled to like half or something right? And you could call me all kinds of names, or laugh at me all you want as it would be almost impossible for me to hear you from inside my private vault while I rolled around naked in piles, and piles of money and hookers.
Since it states “cash and property” could that possibly be property purchased during the marraige in both of their names and perhaps his share of joint investment or capital gains?
Okay, I’m grabbing at straws because I’d much rather pity him and hate her.
Then again, there must’a been a reason these two were attracted to each other… white knights seldom marry the village whore.
The Brits are making us take her back, aren’t they? Maybe if we give them a couple states back they can keep her.
Silence is golden and worth a lot of gold. 70 Million ensures he won’t talk to the press or write a tell all book about his life in HELL with Madonna bench pressing him and squeezing his neck in her vice-like thighs when he dared to give Rocco a Twinkie.
Minnow – I was thinking the same thing, $60-$70 Million is far short of half and could easily be money earned while they were married (even if the initial investment was hers and this was nothing but interest earned while they were married under US law he would be intitled to half).
“…white knights seldom marry the village whore.” well that’s not entirely true because I did!
Really? Which one was the whore? I’m lookin’ at you D—-
I believe she paid him off for real estate, but I’m too lazy to research it.
This sounds more like an agreement pertaining to a pre-nup. After X amount of years together, English guy is due to X amount of dollars per year. And besides, one of her back up dancers is giving legal advice? You may not be given money without asking for it, but you most certainly are given it, if both parties agreement to a minor payout prior to marriage.
Madonna can toss around $60 and $70 million? No wonder A-Rod’s always hanging about her. We all know how much he loves money.
I get what you’re saying, Pasta, and in truth, I agree. Madonna can afford this sort of pay off, and poor Guy very likely deserves every penny and more. I really just wanted to take the naive/idealistic view and think that money didn’t matter to Guy. I am inclined to go with the notion that she’s paying him off to keep his mouth shut about her insanity, though. It makes total sense, especially after he came out and announced that he didn’t want her money.
Well I doubt he is getting one red cent without signing a privacy contract. However, I do believe the first 10 million was owed to him for Swept Away. That was one sh*tty movie.
I’d hit her for free just to say I’d been there.
I know when I normally ask questions they tend to be sarcastic, so let me point out that I genuinely want to know the answer to this one. The few times I’ve been to Great Britain, I’ve noticed that while criminal law can be much different, civil law seems to be pretty similar. If that’s true, then does it really matter what he ’says he wants’?
If two people get divorced in many States in the US, the judge has a ‘magic table’ that calculates things like alimony and child support – regardless of the wishes of either partner. This is why my dad ended up paying thousands a month in child support to someone who made more money than him, and who had told the court she was easily able to support herself and her children without his help.
All I’m saying is, even if he is awarded money, does that necessarily mean he was asking for it? Or are courts in the UK like those in the US, and he might have just automatically awarded him a fixed sum based on the disparity between their 2 incomes?
I’m on the side of liquidated properties and/or hush money. I mean, the man has his own money, right? He might have had to share a jet with another family, but…
“One source, presumably one of Madonna’s back-up dancers”
That is the funniest thing I have read today.
I’m with Minnow – he chose to marry her, for whatever reason. Makes me doubt either his sincerity or his sanity.
I consider the money combat pay for being married to that controlling hag all these years. Not to mention Ritchie’s career seemed to go down the toilet after he married her. (Swept Away being a good example.)
“I’d hit her for free just to say I’d been there.”
60 million dollars to put your d*ck in that venereal disease ‘grab-bag’? I don’t think so…
Snoop, there isn’t anything I wouldn’t do for $60,000,000.
Too true, Snoop. Think of how many urologists $60 mil can buy you.
*shudder* I feel like I need a long shower after this post, haha.
You do have to question his sanity. Anyone sane knows Madonna never was… those poor kids. Reminds me of the court case in “Liar Liar” kind of.
Oh, Kristine, I think Madonna’s sane. Arrogant, demanding, pretentious, whorish, controlling and shrill, but completely sane.
That said, I do feel bad for her kids. But just wait ’til they get out on their own and discover for themselves the joys of refined sugar and DVD collections.
Pasta – she was my white knight and it’s a well known fact in these parts I am the village whore
Don’t feel bad D. They say the same thing about me except it’s village idiot.
Well, at least you two aren’t village people.
For $60,000,000…
I dunno, no one sane would inject so many vitamins her arms look like some sort of raw chicken product.
She owes him that for the f*cking sh*thole of a movie that they made together.