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A famous country pile, an elegant town house, a smart pub in Mayfair and the value of luxury homes in London and New York are among the spoils of matrimony with which Britain's Guy Ritchie is walking away from his eight-year marriage to Madonna.
Ritchie, a publicity-shy film director of considerable means, insisted for weeks that he...
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US pop queen Madonna was probably still asleep in Philadelphia early Friday after entertaining fans with her raunchy Sticky & Sweet tour the night before when a district judge in London granted the decree confirming that her eight-year marriage with Guy Ritchie was over.
The sober proceedings, listed as Ciccione M L v Ritchie G S...
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US pop diva Madonna and her British film director husband Guy Ritchie ended their eight-year marriage in a low-key "quickie" divorce in London Friday following a private settlement.
The singer, 50, and Ritchie, 40, did not attend the hearing before the High Court's family division. It lasted just a few minutes and was heard...
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US pop diva Madonna and her British film director husband Guy Ritchie were granted a divorce after nearly eight years of marriage at the High Court in London Friday.
The singer, 50, and Ritchie, 40, did not attend the hearing before the court's family division which lasted just a few minutes.
The couple, who have three children,...
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US pop diva Madonna and her British film director husband Guy Ritchie were granted a "quickie" divorce after nearly eight years of marriage at the High Court in London Friday.
The singer, 50, and Ritchie, 40, did not attend the hearing before the court's family division which lasted just a few minutes.
High-profile...
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A day after pop-star Madonna and film director Guy Ritchie announced the end of their seven-year marriage British newspapers launched into feverish speculation Thursday about how much the split could cost the "Material Girl" superstar.
Figures ranged from 50 million pounds (86 million dollars) to 150 million pounds, based on...
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The iconic bass drum skin used on the front
cover of The Beatles' 1967 album Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
sold for 541,250 pounds (1,07 million dollars) at a rock auction in
London Thursday. Auction house Christie's had estimated that
the hand-painted skin would sell for around 150,000, but in the end it
sold for almost...
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Christopher Ciccone has little in common with his sister, ultra fit and apparently ageless pop star Madonna.
The 47-year-old Ciccone is so reserved he comes across almost as shy. He's wrapped in an oversized hooded sweatshirt, and the wrinkles show around his eyes, making him look personable.
Despite the cool autumn weather, he...
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Australia beat Great Britain 2-0 to secure a final fifth place in the Olympic women's hockey tournament Friday as China and the Netherlands prepared to battle for the gold medal later.
Madonna Blythe and Hope Muntro scored in each half for the Asutralians' victory. In an earlier match, South Africa beat New Zealand 4-1 in the match...
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Argentina beat Germany 3-1 to win the women's hockey bronze medal on the final day of the Olympic tournament Friday.
Playing before a capacity crowd including football icon Diego Maradona, the Argentines repeated their bronze medal success of 2004 with first-half goals from Claudia Burkart and Carla Rebecchi before Noel Barrionuevo...
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C-Rod files for divorce in Miami saying that she couldn’t bear her husband’s acting anymore. She accuses him of extramarital affairs and other marital misconduct. “Alex has emotionally abandoned his wife and children and has left her with no choice but to divorce him,” said the petition filed in Miami Dade County.Alex Rodriguez doesn’t...
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Alex Rodriguez, also known as A-Rod,
the highest-paid player in baseball history and wife Cynthia Rodriguez, also
known as C-Rod, split up after three months of problems in their marriage. The
couple has two daughters, Natasha, 3-years-old, and Ella, 2-months-old.
In spite of the affairs Alex
Rodriguez was thought to have with a...
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 Madonna’s brother, Christopher Ciccone, is writing
a memoir about his sister. He has signed a deal with publishers Simon and
Scuster and will be working with Wendy Leigh, who wrote biographies of Liza
Minnelli, Grace Kelly and a provocative book about Arnold Schwarzenegger.
“Living with My Sister Madonna” will tell
the story of a...
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 A bunch of
A-list stars might have got hepatitis A, after a bartender at actor Ashton
Kutcher’s 30th birthday party was found to have this highly infectious
disease. Unfortunately for them, hepatitis A is not something we can’t escape
just like that, because you’re a Hollywood
star and everyone saw you in many popular movies....
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 The celebrities attending Ashton
Kutcher’s birthday party were advised to get vaccinated against hepatitis A,
after the New York City Department of Health issued an alert stating that a
case of hepatitis A was discovered at Socialista night club.
The agency said that a bartender,
who was on duty on Feb. 7, the night of...
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 Madonna and Guy Ritchie will legally be divorced on Friday in London. The 50-year-old pop star and the 40-year-old film director have already filled all the necessary papers so they could be legally separated as quickly as possible. Their case was listed on Thursday and a judge from the High Court's Family Division will look through it...
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 Madonna has decided to reunite on stage two of the most popular singers among the teenagers. Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake are reported by U.S. magazine to perform together on stage during one of Madonna’s concerts from her Sticky and Sweet tour. The 50-year-old Queen of pop and dance has had collaboration with both of them. She...
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 After a lot of scandals about Britney Spears coming or not coming at the MTV VMA’s this Sunday, she is said to be there on stage but not with a performance. She will make an appearance that the MTV Networks Music Group President Van Toffler said it will be “fun and unexpected.”Britney Spears is nominated for three awards, including Video...
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 Madonna and Guy Ritchie have reportedly decided to break up after a marriage of seven years. The opinions about the reasons they had are divided between lots of sources. Some say that Guy has had enough of her flirting with some young artists, like Timberlake or Stuart Price and he just couldn’t bear to be “second...
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 The Cannes
film festival will roll out the red carpet Wednesday, with “Dirty Harry” and “Indiana
Jones” leading this year’s line-up. Clint Eastwood, turning 78 this month,
makes a new try for Cannes’
Palme d'Or for best film with a drama set in the 1920s starring Angelina Jolie.
Also on the famed red carpet, but out of the...
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 Setting: The lawns of the United Nations in New York. Time:
Wednesday night, just after celebrities were wiping their eyes after the
cancellation of the Vanity Fair Oscar Party. Host: Madonna. Sponsor: Gucci. Goal:
Raising money for children in Malawi.
Story: In order to raise funds for UNICEF and her own
charity organization,...
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 You could say that 49-year-old
pop diva Madonna is like wine: the older she gets the better she is. Besides
being an excellent singer and song writer, Madonna is also a money maker.
According to Forbes.com, she tops the “Cash Queens of Music” list as the
richest female singer for the recorded period June 2006 – June 2007, with...
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 Hollywood star Sean Penn traveled the Venezuelan countryside along president Hugo Chavez. "I came here looking for a great country. I found a great country," the Oscar-winning actor said. "I'm also here as a journalist and so I owe it to that medium to wait until I've digested, fact-checked and finished my journey...
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 “RocknRolla” is soon-to-be-ex-husband of Madonna’s latest movie. And many say it won’t be so good as a movie and subject, but as the actors who play in it. One of them is Tom Wilkinson, who interprets the role of Lenny Cole, a high-living East End London lowlife. And it’s a fact that movies like "In the Bedroom" and...
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 “Filth and Wisdom” is Madonna’s first try for directing a movie. The 84-minute sequel stars Eugene Hütz, Holly Weston and Vicky McClure and comes after Madonna’s great experience in movies, as she tried to do a good play in 22 movies. Still, only three of them are, let’s say, acceptable to watch: "Desperately Seeking Susan,"...
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 Madonna wrote and produced a documentary about orphans in Malawi, entitled
“I Am Because We Are,” which is one of the favorites at Tribeca Film Festival.
The title refers to a word describing an African worldview –
ubuntu – which translates “I am because you are” and symbolizes the fact that
individuals need other people to be...
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 Time goes by so slowly… This is
Madonna’s opinion! As for the others, it seems that time is the fastest
abstract concept of all!
Believe it or not, it was a year
ago that we were all reading in the newspapers and on news web sites that Anna
Nicole Smith was found dead in a hotel room. The former model and actress was
leaving...
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 English writer-director Guy Ritchie apparently tries to prove his marriage with Madonna didn't totally kill off his talent. He signed up "300" star Gerard Butler, Tom Wilkinson, Thandie Newton and rapper Chris "Ludacris" Bridges for his "RocknRolla," Ritchie's latest attempt at the mob movie genre.After a...
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 Since Madonna and Guy Ritchie decided to divorce, this had turned their relationship into a public scandal, during which the ugliest things came to light. Madonna said, during a concert of her “Sticky and Sweet” tour, that her husband is “emotionally retarded.” Ritchie didn’t take much to insult her and said that she was too old to dance...
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 Madonna and Guy Ritchie’s divorce has become really ugly in only a few days. It seems that Ritchie has been using a very bad language to describe his wife. Madonna’s lawyers have already made a case that her husband insulted her saying that she “looked like a granny” next to her back-up dancers. He also said that she is “past it” now...
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 Madonna, 50, and film director Guy Ritchie, 40, have been together for eight years and they will soon announce their divorce. Madonna and Guy Ritchie met back in 1999 through their friends Sting and Trudie Styler, the singer’s wife. After that, Madonna gave birth to their son, Rocco, in Los Angeles, on August 11, 2000 and she married Guy...
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 It has been reported that 50-year-old Madonna will divorce her husband, film director Guy Ritchie. The rumors about the two splitting up started since the end of June, but they denied them. Madonna and Guy have been together for eight years and will soon announce their divorce. In July, Madonna’s publicist stated that the two have no...
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 Britney has returned healthy and fit to the spotlights. After she had won three VMAs this year on September 7, now she gets ready for a new album to come out on her 27s birthday on December 2. It seems that her mother was right and Britney has fully recovered from the troubled year of 2007.Her sixth album, “Circus,” will be released by...
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 Madonna Louise Ciccone Ritchie performed as a member of the pop group Breakfast Club and she managed to release her self-titled debut album in 1983. After that she produced three number-one studio albums in the 1980s. Sticky and Sweet Tour is the seventh world tour concert of the American pop singer and it supports her eleventh studio...
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 Alex Rodriguez’s divorce trial got to an end, but the scandal that led Cynthia Rodriguez to divorce her husband goes on. Sources said that the real reason for which C-Rod decided to divorce A-Rod was that he was cheating on her. Paparazzi tried to find out more and discovered many connections between Madonna and A-Rod. He went to visit...
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 Madonna was born in Bay City, Michigan and grew up in Rochester Hills, a suburb from Detroit. Fans back home made her a great gift and sang an early “Happy Birthday” as the singer turns 50 on August 16. Madonna went back home together with her daughter Lourdes for the Fourth Annual Traverse City Film Festival. She introduced her...
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 Guy Ritchie’s marriage to Madonna “is fine,” as far as he is aware of, the film director told People in a recent interview. He denied rumors that their marriage is on the rocks. Ritchie, 39, who joined the cast of his upcoming directorial effort “RocknRolla’ on Thursday afternoon at the San Diego International Comic-Con, also spoke about...
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 Madonna’s brother, Christopher Ciccone, told Deborah Roberts on “Good morning America,” broadcasted on ABC, that it is unlikely that his sister was involved in a relationship with A-Rod and that she had anything to do with the break up of the baseball star and Cynthia Rodriguez. The author of “Life with my sister Madonna” said that,...
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A day after Cynthia Rodriguez filed for divorce,
saying that her husband, Alex Rodriguez, was unfaithful and had emotionally abandoned
his family, the baseball player had lunch with Rabbi Michael Berg, the Kabbalah
Centre director, reports People.com.
He also met Madonna’s Kabbalah fundraiser on February
6, in New York, while his...
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 Britney Spears will join the team of
Madonna’s upcoming “Sticky and Sweet” tour set to launch next month in Wales. She will
be filming a segment in the next week for the tour, People reports.
But the details of the project are kept
secret. Mdonna’s rep, Liz Rosenberg claims she does not know the exact details
of the project. “I...
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The New York Daily News reported
on Thursday that Rodriguez and his wife, Cynthia, have broken up, after being
married for 6 years. The press hypothesizes that he has been involved in an extra
conjugal relationship the “Material girl”, pop icon Madonna.
The brokenhearted Cynthia
considers that the Yankee star has been...
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 In the course of rumors of unfaithfulness and divorce,
Madonna and Guy Ritchie were present with their children at Kabbalah services
in NY City on July 5.
Stories of infidelity started last week when many celebrity
magazines and tabloids began reporting that Madonna, whose spouse is the
British film director Guy Ritchie, had...
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 Rumors have it that Yankees celebrity Alex Rodriguez, 32, and
even more famous singer Madonna, 49, are becoming too close to call their
relationship simple amity. The marriages of both superstars are said to be on the
rocks, so the tabloids have linked the two, although Madonna’s spokeswoman has
denied the stories regarding the pop...
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 US Weekly magazine reported on its Web site that the New York Yankees
star player Alex Rodriguez was a midnight guest at Madonna’s apartment in New York City.
“All the doormen are talking” about the
visits, said a source, adding that the baseball player stays as late as
midnight.
As childishly simple as it may sound,...
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 Detroit police is now investigating a serious attempt of arson at Madonna’s former home in the Detroit suburb of Rochester-Hills.
The fire started on Friday and a neighbor said that a woman who was passing by the neighborhood saw the flames and called 911. The same neighbor told CNN that that was the house where Madonna had grown...
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 Madonna’s mother-in-law denied the reports saying that the singer has consulted with a divorce lawyer. According to The Times Madonna is in talks to Fiona Shacklerton, who represented Paul McCartney in his divorce from Heather Mills. Shackleton, as well as Charles in his divorce from Princess Diana. Ritchie also reportedly consulted a...
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 Pop star Madonna is seeking legal advice to end her
seven-year marriage to film director Guy Ritchie, the Times of London informs.The 49-year-old singer has reportedly sought advice from
divorce lawyer Fiona Shackleton, the same lawyer that represented Paul
McCartney when he divorced from Heather Mills, helping him to keep his...
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 Actress Gwyneth Paltrow recently revealed that she and her
husband Chris Martin of Coldplay, may have another baby. She mentioned that she
is also open to the idea of adopting a child.
“I may force myself to do it one more time because the result is so worth
it,” Paltrow said, quoted by RTE.ie. On adopting a child, the actress...
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 A judge finally approved Madonna’s adoption
for a Malawian boy she met in an orphanage in 2006.
The 49-year-old pop star and her husband,
Guy Ritchie, “are perfect parents” for David, who will be 3 in November, Justice
Andrew Nyirenda said. Madonna was not present in the court for the ruling. Madonna
and Ritchie also have a son,...
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 It seems that “Queen of Pop” Madonna and her husband Guy
Ritchie have some problems regarding their relationship, and this time rumors
go even further saying that the couple is ready for a trial separation after
seven years of marriage, the Daily Mail reports.
Madonna and Ritchie, ten years her junior, glittered last
week at...
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 Pop queen Madonna asked a Malawian court to postpone a
hearing to finalize her adoption of a boy from the southern African nation. A
court official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters the final
hearing was scheduled for 15 May, “unless her lawyers ask for another date.”
The 49-year-old singer requested the High...
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 Yesterday, the New York Post reported that a 15-minute
hardcore sex tape starring Marilyn Monroe not only existed, but was just sold
to a New York
collector for $1.5 million.
The story got weirder when it was mentioned that the new
owner of the footage actually bought it from the son of a deceased FBI
informant and out of...
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 A rep for British supermodel Naomi Campbell is defending
her, after the arrest at London’s Heathrow Airport, Access Hollywood reports. According
to Naomi’s rep, Jeff Raymond declared in a statement that “Naomi was flying to Los Angeles for a memorial
service on Thursday, April 3. She arrived at Heathrow Terminal 5 in plenty of
time,...
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 It appears that Britney Spears is currently in talks to
reprise her highly rated guest-starring role on the CBS show “How I Met Your
Mother,” Reuters reports. Multiple sources claimed that the producers wanted
her return for at least one more episode, in order to play a dermatology office
assistant named Abby, who falls in love with...
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 Madonna has shown once again her compassion and support for
Britney Spears, insisting that the media should “step off” the troubled singer.
In a recent exclusive interview with the “Yo on E!”
satellite radio show, Madonna, 49, claimed that “They need to step off. For
real...Let's go save her,” E! Online quoted her. Madonna said...
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 Surprises at birthday bashes are usually welcomed, but when
it comes to the likelihood of a surprise infection with hepatitis A, everybody
needs to do the same thing: vaccinate!
Ashton Kutcher celebrated his 30th birthday at a West Village
drink and dance club, Socialista. But before the details and gossips of the
party were...
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 An impressive number of celebrities were reunited Wednesday night at a fundraiser organized by Madonna in New York, in order to raise funds for children in Malawi, and they succeeded in gathering around $5.5 million, according to media reports.
The celebrities met on the United Nations front lawn, for an event that could almost...
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 American actor/director Sean Penn has been named to head the jury of
the 2008 Cannes International Film Festival, organizers of the event
announced on Thursday.
In accepting the invitation, the 47-year-old Penn said, "the Cannes
Film Festival has long been the epicentre in the discovery of ... new
waves of filmmakers from all...
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 As their name suggest, fairytales should have a happy
ending. Nowadays, however, only the beginning of something is more of a
fairytale, as the ending is part of another story.
And when talking about Sean Penn and his wife Robin Wright Penn, the fairytale has surely gone bad.
They’ve been together for years and they have always...
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 Marilyn Manson is being sued by his former keyboardist, as
the New York Post reveals. The lawsuit is not a novelty between the two, as Stephen
"Pogo" Bier filed another one in August against Brian Warner,
the real name of the shock rocker.
In August Bier accused Warner of not paying him the right
amount of money,...
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Celebrity real estate broker Linda Stein was found dead in
her $2.5 million Fifth Avenue
apartment. The police declared her death a homicide caused by a blunt force
trauma to her head and neck.
Stein’s daughter, filmmaker Mandy Stein found her 62-year
old mother bludgeoned to death on Tuesday, and the murder weapon is thought...
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 Actor Kevin Costner says he was hurt when Madonna made fun of him in her 1991 documentary “Truth or Dare,” but he has forgiven her.
The provocative documentary includes a certain scene which was especially unsavory for the famous actor. In that scene, Costner visits Madonna backstage after on of her concerts and says it was...
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 Justin Timberlake has launched his own record label, called Tennman Records.
The 26-year-old singer, former Mouseketeer, former ‘N Sync member, recently turned to acting, has now become the head of his own record label. Justin teamed up with hip-hop producers Interscope to launch Tennman Records.
“Whenever you have the...
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 Madonna managed to make a hell of a show as performing on stage during her “Sticky and Sweet” Tour. One of her concerts was held at the Izod Center on Saturday night and the crowd was spectacular! Everybody enjoyed the music of the apparently “never dying” pop star Madonna. 25 years in the spotlight had brought 50-year-old Madonna a...
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 Britney Spears had been scheduled to begin
filming a video today in Hollywood for Madonna’s
upcoming “Sticky and Sweet” tour set to launch next month in Wales. The
shoot has been temporarily delayed by a technical glitch, E!News reported.
The shoot was postponed until Monday
because the set was not finished in time.
Madonna’s...
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More money or
more fame? What might have determined Shakira to change from Record Company to
Live Nation?
According to
the Los Angeles Times, Live Nation, the giant concert promoter, has signed a
ten-year contract with Colombian singer Shakira, 31.
Some music
industry experts believe that the contract might be estimating $70...
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 After debuting at No.1 last week, Madonna’s “Hard Candy” fell
to No.3, as Neil Diamond and Toby Keith took the top spots on the sales charts
this week with their new albums.
Diamond’s “Home Before Dark” debuted at No.1 with 146,000
copies sold, giving him his first-ever chart topping album. Neil Diamond sold
over 125 million...
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 Madonna will launch a new tour of Europe and North America, Agence France-Presse reported. The
49-year-old pop star announced Wednesday the Sticky and Sweet tour, promoting her new album, Hard Candy, will start at the Millennium
Stadium.
The tour will continue its road through Europe, with stops
in France, Germany, the...
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 It’s hard to say that during her 25-year career in music
Madonna didn’t prove to be innovative and talented. However, some say that her
latest album is the best one of her career. After being inducted into the US
Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame in March, the artist has come up with an album which
is everything that her previous one...
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 Mariah Carey found the right formula to reach No. 1 on the US pop
chart. “E=MC2” sold 462,971 copies during the week ended April 20,
according to Nielsen SoundScan data. The result marked the best debut sales
week of her career.
Carey’s rivals for the second most No.1 albums among female
artists are Madonna and Janet Jackson....
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 It seems that “13” is a lucky number for pop queen Madonna,
as she managed to score her thirteenth number one single with “4 Minutes,”
featuring Justin Timberlake, the Official U.K. Charts Company said on Sunday
according to BBC News.
“4 Minutes,” taken from her eleventh album “Hard Candy,”
comes 23 years after she first...
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 A $150 million deal is about to be closed this week between
rapper Jay-Z and concert promoter Live Nation Inc., New York Times reported Wednesday on
its Web site. This means that the company will finance the 38-year-old rapper's own entertainment venture, as well as recordings and tours over the next
decade.
The arrangement...
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 Two divas of pop music, Madonna and Mariah Carey, managed to
usurp Elvis Presley’s position in the Billboard charts record book this week.
Mariah Carey’s single “Touch My Body,” climbed 14 places on
the Billboard Hot 100 and became the 18th chart-topper of the pop
singer’s career. Until now, the King of Rock 'n' Roll owned the...
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 Popular Irish band U2 decided to make its relationship with
Live Nation more official, so the band and the concert giant inked a 12-year
contract.
Live Nation will be working on U2’s touring, merchandising and
web site, in an attempt to enlarge the number of its fans, which is already
huge. Given the present background of...
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 Justin Timberlake is going to induct Madonna into the Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame. The event will take place on March 10 at the
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan.
According to The Associated Press Timberlake has been working with the singer
on her upcoming album that is supposed to be released this year.
Madonna Louise Ciccone...
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 It seems like Britney is planning
to start it all over again. She has been recently seen at Millennium Dance
Complex in Los Angeles,
where she is reportedly preparing for a new world tour.
Sources close to the pop star
told the New York Post that “Britney will be leaving the country in the next
few weeks, after training in...
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 A 24-year relationship doesn’t last if one needs something
else, especially if one of the parties is a record label and the other is an
extremely popular star, like Madonna. Concert promoter Live Nation is the lucky
new winner of a $120 million contract signed with the ever self-recreating
Madonna.
The star’s switch is as...
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 Madonna has written a new song especially for the July 7 Live Earth musical | | | |
