Raffaello Follieri, Anne Hathaway, George Clooney, Sarah Larson
Christie Brinkley and Peter Cook head to court (July 2, 2008)
Guy Ritchie and Madonna, Sept. 2008
Paul McCartney and Heather Mills, Nov. 2005
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Raffaello Follieri, Anne Hathaway, George Clooney, Sarah Larson
Christie Brinkley and Peter Cook head to court (July 2, 2008)
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Guy Ritchie and Madonna, Sept. 2008
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Paul McCartney and Heather Mills, Nov. 2005
December 24, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
The break-ups of Madonna and Guy Ritchie, and Paul McCartney and Heather Mills resulted in two of the most explosive celebrity divorces of the year.
But what about the most expensive? Or surprising?
As we near the end of ’08, it’s time to take a look back at the biggest break-ups of 2008.
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December 2, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
Plus, A “Twilight” star and a Jonas squeeze are spotted out. And, are Madonna & A-Rod house hunting?
Get your Daily Dispatch of Celebrity Shenanigans inside!
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December 1, 2008
MEXICO CITY, Mexico --
Madonna and New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez were spotted in Mexico City over the weekend, the Associated Press reported.
When A-Rod was asked about being in the same city as the Material Mom, who was performing a sold-out second night of her “Sticky & Sweet” tour, A-Rod said it was “very good,” without elaborating.
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November 28, 2008
MIAMI, FL --
Alex Rodriguez had a busy Thanksgiving yesterday, spending the day with his manager, his children and soon-to-be ex-wife Cynthia Rodriguez, and Madonna, according to the New York Daily News.
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November 25, 2008
NEW YORK, NY --
Madonna was finally granted a preliminary divorce from Guy Ritchie last Friday, and now Access Hollywood breaks the news that Madonna and New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez will spend their first Thanksgiving together at Rodriguez’s place in New York.
A-Rod will be hosting a dinner in his Manhattan apartment for Madonna, and her kids, Lourdes, Rocco and David, and their mutual manager, Guy Oseary.
Cynthia Rodriguez, who filed for divorce in July after more than five years of marriage to A-Rod, wrote an email to a close friend detailing A-Rod’s and Madonna’s holiday plans.
“My 6-foot-3, 220-pound soul-less, soon-to-be ex-husband is abandoning his kids on Thanksgiving to be with Madonna… She called and he ran on her command back to New York City . . . Gross!” Cynthia wrote.
More details… after the jump!
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November 22, 2008
HOLLYWOOD, NYC & BEYOND! --
Thursday, November 20 in NYC: Fran Drescher, “Sopranos” star Steve Van Zandt sporting his signature headband and “60 Minutes” correspondent Steve Kroft sitting at separate tables at the Waverly Inn restaurant… Alex Rodriguez having dinner with a man at Nobu 57… Salma Hayek sitting in the NBC elevator bank, in the security chair waiting for her guest pass before filming her guest spot on “30 Rock”…
In Dubai: Mary Kate Olsen, Mischa Barton, Charlize Theron and boyfriend Stuart Townsend and Lindsay Lohan at the grand opening of the Atlantis resort.
Wednesday, November 19 in NYC: Rihanna and Madonna posed on the red carpet at the Oak Room at the Plaza for the Gucci UNICEF dinner… Jessica Alba, arriving around 2 AM after a full day of filming, “An Invisible Sign of My Own,” celebrated TENJUNE nightclub’s second anniversary on November 19 with owners Eugene Remm and Mark Birnbaum in New York City… Widespread Panic performed to a sold out show at the Fillmore Irving celebrating the life and legacy of concert impresario Bill Graham…
… plus, many more… inside!
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November 17, 2008
MIAMI, Fla. --
Don’t worry about Madonna, famous friend Gwyneth Paltrow told the Daily Mail on Friday. The “Iron Man” star said the touring Material Mom, who recently performed with Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake in LA, is in good spirits after her rep announced her divorce from director husband Guy Ritchie in October.
“She’s doing great,” Gwyneth told the Daily Mail at the launch of the Fontainbleau Miami Beach resort.
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October 24, 2008
MIAMI, Fla. --
Alex Rodriguez has put his Miami home on the market.
According to the real estate listing, the baseball superstar is asking $14.8 million for the 8,310 square foot home he shared with now-estranged wife Cynthia, and their daughters, Ella and Natasha.
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October 3, 2008
NEW YORK, New York --
Madonna did not step out to dine with New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez, despite a report otherwise in Us Weekly, a source very close to the singer told Access.
September 19, 2008
NEW YORK, New York --
Yankees star Alex Rodriguez and wife Cynthia have settled their multimillion-dollar divorce case, the New York Daily News reported Thursday.
“Cynthia and Alex Rodriguez have amicably resolved their dissolution of marriage proceedings,” the player’s lawyer, Alan Kluger, said on the newspaper’s Web site.
“They deliberately engaged in a private negotiation. This was and remains a personal family matter for both of them.”
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August 11, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
Plus, LC is spotted with her new “Boy.” And why is A-Rod forking over a large sum of money to Madonna?
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July 31, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez is responding to his wife’s request for a divorce after almost four weeks of remaining silent issue.
In court documents expected to be filed Thursday, the slugger says the marriage is “irretrievably broken,” according to People.
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July 24, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
Plus, Carlos Leon on Madonna and A-Rod. Amy Adams engaged. And more musicals are coming to the big screen!
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July 15, 2008
NEW YORK, New York --
The wife of Alex Rodriguez wants to know if the New York Yankees star hired private detectives or installed wiretaps to spy on her.
Cynthia Rodriguez’s lawyers demanded evidence of any such surveillance as part of a routine request filed in Miami-Dade Circuit Court last week in their divorce case.
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July 15, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
Contrary to previous reports, Madonna will not be attending tonight’s All Star game at Yankee Stadium, Access Hollywood has learned.
Madonna had been rumored to attend, according to the New York Post’s Page Six, but will not be present at the game.
Access the Full StoryJuly 15, 2008
NEW YORK, New York --
The strip clubs in New York must have been ghost towns last night, because a bevy of busty, barely dressed bleached blondes were at the nightclub 40/40, awaiting the arrival of Alex Rodriguez, who was hosting a pre-All Star Game party at the hotspot.
At around 11:15 PM, 75 minutes after the party began, Rodriguez was escorted into the club, along with his manager Guy Oseary and model/restaurateur Ingrid Casares, who were the ones who originally introduced the slugger to their close friend, Madonna.
Access has all the details from inside the party!
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July 13, 2008
LONDON, U.K. --
In an excerpt from “Life With My Sister Madonna” that appeared in the Mail on Sunday, the pop icon’s brother, Christopher Ciccone, shed light on the inner workings of Madonna’s marriage to Guy Ritchie – a marriage now under public duress as rumors of divorce and the singer’s links to baseball superstar Alex Rodriguez continue to swirl.
“Their life together is sometimes difficult,” Ciccone wrote in the U.K. newspaper. “A Kabbalah rabbi would regularly come down from London to mediate between them. This does not surprise me. I believe that Kabbalah is helping keep Guy and Madonna together.”
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July 11, 2008
NEW YORK, New York --
Alex Rodriguez met with his estranged wife, Cynthia, and the couple’s oldest daughter, Natasha, on Friday, Access Hollywood has confirmed.
The meeting took place at a hotel in Toronto, where Alex is in town as his New York Yankees play the Toronto Blue Jays.
It is the first time A-Rod saw his wife or his three-year-old daughter since the couple split earlier this month.
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July 11, 2008
MIAMI, Florida --
Let’s face it — all of us want to have a piece of that celebrity lifestyle. You may not have the million dollar paychecks, but you sure can pretend like you do! And one of the fabulous perks of being a celeb is access to all the hottest clubs on the scene.
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July 10, 2008
NEW YORK, New York --
For the first time since filing for divorce from New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez, Cynthia Rodriguez is speaking out.
C-Rod, as she’s been dubbed, opened up to the New York Post’s Cindy Adams about her estranged husband’s alleged affairs and the stripper that was the final straw.
In fact, Cynthia insists she is “not out to mutilate” Alex, according to Adams’ interview.
Plus, news on A-Rod’s reunion with his daughters!
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July 9, 2008
NEW YORK, New York --
What began with Madonna and Guy Ritchie divorce rumors has spiraled into a soap opera on two continents. Access Hollywood has your guide to the cast of characters and the story so far inside.
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July 8, 2008
NEW YORK, New York --
It’s more than “Like a Prayer” for Alex Rodriguez.
The baseball player isn’t just flirting with Kabbalah, the mystical branch of Judaism.
“He’s into it. He’s exploring his spiritual side,” a source close to Rodriguez tells Access Hollywood.
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July 8, 2008
NEW YORK, --
While Alex Rodriguez’s wife may have just filed for divorce, a friend of Alex’s confirms to Access Hollywood the couple’s relationship has been floundering for quite some time.
The friend tells Access that the couple has had a number of unspecified issues, which could not be resolved and although Cynthia may have been the one to file, Alex feels it’s best if they both separate and get on with their lives.
And while the Yankees superstar is expected to answer his soon-to-be-ex wife’s divorce petition in the next few days, the friend told Access A-Rod is “very depressed” about being kept from his kids.
July 7, 2008
MIAMI, Fla. --
Alex Rodriguez’s wife filed for divorce Monday, calling her husband an adulterer who “emotionally abandoned his wife and children.”
“The marriage of the parties is irretrievably broken because of the husband’s extramarital affairs and other marital misconduct,” according to Cynthia Rodriguez’s petition for dissolution of marriage, filed in the family division of Miami-Dade County Circuit Court.
The New York Yankees third baseman, who earned his 12th All-Star selection Sunday, has refused to comment on his relationship with Madonna, who denied any romantic involvement with the slugger.
July 6, 2008
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Cynthia Rodriguez, who married the New York Yankees star in 2002, said the marriage is over because of the All-Star third baseman’s extramarital affairs, according to reports that appeared Sunday on the Web sites of Houston television station KTRK and The Miami Herald.
The reports come just days after Alex Rodriguez was linked to Madonna in various media outlets and Cynthia Rodriguez’s subsequent visit to the Paris home of rocker Lenny Kravitz, who said she came to France to escape the media frenzy in New York and denied that anything improper had happened.
Access the Full StoryJuly 6, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
Madonna is denying rumors of a divorce from husband Guy Ritchie, along with any involvement with New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez.
“My husband and I are not planning on getting a divorce,” the singer said in a statement released to Access Hollywood.
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July 5, 2008
NEW YORK, N.Y. --
When the media capital of the world meets a celebrity divorce, it’s a breakup made in tabloid heaven. So the city that has hosted the spectacular splits of Woody Allen, Liza Minnelli and Rudolph Giuliani now is feasting on the salacious details of model Christie Brinkley’s fourth marital breakup.
The collapse of the 10-year union of the former Sports Illustrated swimsuit model and architect Peter Cook is being recounted in slow motion in a Central Islip courtroom on Long Island, not far from the Hamptons home where the couple had lived together.
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July 3, 2008
PARIS, France --
Lenny Kravitz has denied an alleged affair with Alex Rodriguez’s wife in a statement to Access Hollywood on Thursday.
“There is absolutely no affair between Cynthia Rodriguez and myself. This is unequivocally 100% not true,” the rocker said.
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July 3, 2008
NEW YORK, New York --
Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez and his wife have split less than three months after the birth of the couple’s second daughter, according to a report in the New York Daily News.
The story on the newspaper’s Web site comes amid reports linking Rodriguez to Madonna. Rodriguez refused to address the topic on three occasions Tuesday, once saying “no” when asked if he had any comment.
Access the Full StoryJuly 1, 2008
NEW YORK, New York --
Despite the rumors of a split between Madonna and husband Guy Ritchie, a rep for the singer told Access Hollywood the couple is not planning to separate.
“Madonna’s husband Guy arrived in New York last night to be with his wife and family,” Madonna’s rep, Liz Rosenberg, said in a statement released to Access. “There are no plans for Madonna and Guy to divorce.”
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