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Thailand's fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra can now lay his hands on just 500 million dollars - about a tenth of his estimated previous wealth, the Nation newspaper said Friday.
The founder of Thailand's biggest telecoms conglomerate was thought to be worth around 5 billion dollars before he was ousted in a...
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Thailand's fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra is in Dubai, from where he will address his supporters on December 10, a colleague of his said Monday.
The host of the Truth Today talk show, Jaturporn Promphan, who is also a member of parliament in what is considered Thaksin's proxy political party, said the former premier will...
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Thailand's fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra is in Dubai, from where he will address his supporters on December 10, a colleague of his said Monday.
The host of the Truth Today talk show, Jaturporn Promphan, who is also a member of parliament in what is considered Thaksin's proxy political party, said the former premier will...
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Two women were found dead Friday in South Korea in circumstances similar to the apparent suicide of a top South Korean television and film actress, raising fears of copycat acts, news reports said.
Choi Jin Sil, 39, an icon of South Korean prime-time television dramas, was found hanging Thursday from the shower stall in a bathroom...
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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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Pope Benedict XVI ended his four-day visit to France on Monday with a mass for the sick in the southern pilgrimage site of Lourdes.
Thousands of ill people from all over the world, many of them in wheelchairs or on stretchers, took part in the mass in the hope of a miraculous cure or simply morale.
"Many cures occur...
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By the time Socialist Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero finishes serving his second term as Spanish prime minister, his country is likely to have undergone a radical transformation.
During the 3.5 years that remain of his term after his re-election in March, Zapatero intends to complete sweeping social reforms that will turn traditionally...
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An Iraqi interpreter, who was recently granted asylum in Denmark, has opted to return to Iraq instead of divorcing one of his two wives, reports said Tuesday.
"It was a difficult decision for them, but now they have left to see how things are in Basra," lawyer Marianne Volund told the Nyhedsavisen newspaper.
The...
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 In October 2007, French President Nickolas Sarkozy and his wife announced a surprising divorce after a marriage of 11 years. Now both have remarried. Since the separation, it seems things have come to normal as both the president and his former wife remarried. In February Sarkozy made official his romantic affair with the supermodel...
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 After wining another four-year term as Spain’s Prime Minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said that this victory marks the beginning of a new era in the country’s politics. Zapatero’s Socialist Party managed to win 169 seats. It’s a five-seat improvement from the last elections that took place in 2004, but still seven seats short of...
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 In an
interview given on Tuesday for “L’Express” magazine, Mrs. Bruni-Sarkozy, as she
was named in the newspaper, confesses her feelings for the president of France. The
couple was married on Feb. 2, in a secret ceremony, that took place at the
presidential Elysée
Palace.
It was the
first marriage for...
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 French president Nicolas Sarkozy has married his girlfriend,
supermodel-turned-singer Carla Bruni, on Saturday at the Elysee
Palace, announced Francois Lebel,
mayor of Paris'
eighth arrondissement, who performed the civil ceremony.
Francois Lebel told French Europe-1 radio that the bride
wore white and looked "ravishing, as...
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 Britain's top police chiefs warned against Princess Diana going on a
Mediterranean yachting holiday with Harrod's heir Dodi al-Fayed which
ended with both being killed in a car crash in Paris at the end of
August 1997, the inquest into their deaths was told in London Tuesday.
Evidence presented to the inquest showed that Paul...
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 Princess Diana planned a private wedding to a Pakistani heart surgeon
whom she called "Mr Wonderful" and never intended to get married to
Harrods' heir Dodi al-Fayed, with whom she died in Paris in August
1997, the inquest into their deaths was told Monday.
Paul Burrell, Diana's former butler whom she called her...
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 A Paris court will issue a decision Friday on a demand by the ex-wife
of President Nicolas Sarkozy to stop publication of a book in which she
is quoted as calling him a philanderer, stingy and unworthy of being
president, French radio reported Thursday.
The book, titled simply Cecilia, was written by journalist Anna
Biton, who...
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 Three days after his divorce was made public, French President Nicolas
Sarkozy was secretly hospitalized to treat a throat abscess,
France-Info radio reported Wednesday, citing a book to be published
about his ex-wife.
Denis Demonpion, co-author with Laurent Leger of Cecilia: The
Hidden Face of the Ex-First Lady, told the station...
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 French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his girlfriend, pop singer and
former supermodel Carla Bruni, will get married soon, the weekly Le
Journal du Dimanche reported on Sunday.
According to the paper, which cites anonymous sources, the wedding
is to take place February 8 or 9, just two weeks after Sarkozy
celebrates his 53rd...
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 The inquest into the death of Princess Diana and Dodi al Fayed in
London heard Thursday that Prince Philip allegedly referred to Diana's
lover as "an oily bed-hopper" amid suggestions that the relationship
should "be curtailed."
In the course of evidence given to the inquest Thursday by
Brigadier Miles...
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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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 As ABC promised, Sunday’s season finale of “Desperate Housewives”
took place five years in the future. The two-minute “jump forward” began with a
glimpse of the ladies’ poker game. It seems that 2013 would comprise not only Lynette,
Gaby, Susan and Bree, but also Katherine, this season’s troubled outsider, the
Associated Press...
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 The former Beatles star, Paul McCartney has reportedly signed a deal worth some 400 million dollars with Apple in order to allow it distribute the Beatles’ back catalog on iTunes.Rumors went on and off about the fact that the band was digitally remastering its hits in the anticipation of making it available through online music stores,...
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 Sara Evans, the successful traditional-styled singer from Nashville, engaged to the
radio host Jay Barker, People.com reports. Evans, who is now one of country
music’s most popular artists, received Gold and Platinum certified albums for
“Restless” (2004) and “Real Fine
Place” (2005).
The country singer and Jay Baker, 37, are in...
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 Whitney Houston’s fans will be thrilled to learn that the
artist is making preparations for a new album that is due to be released this
year, BMG Label Group chairman/CEO Clive Davis announced on Thursday.
The material will be the first original production of the
singer’s since 2002. At the Billboard’s Music & Money Symposium...
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 The U.S. District Judge Philip Gutierrez said
Tuesday that the case of Britney Spears’ conservatorship should remain in a California court. The
reason for this decision is, according to the judge, the fact that the lawyer who
claims to represent her is not actually her attorney because Britney hasn’t got
the right to hire one on her...
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 Peter Cook, husband of former model Christie Brinkley,
started to cry while he was testifying on Wednesday, as the couple’s divorce
commenced in a Central Islip courtroom in New York.
Cook confessed to having had sexual relationships with a
Southampton teenager, Diana Bianchi, who he had hired for his Hamptons architectural...
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 A book in which the former wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy
calls him a philanderer who is unworthy of being president went on sale
Friday after a Paris court rejected her demand to stop its publication,
France-Info radio reported.
In the book, entitled simply Cecilia, the former Madame Sarkozy is
quoted by author Anna...
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 A new study developed by Jianguo “Jack” Liu and Eunice Yu at Michigan State University was published this week in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, showing that the growing divorce rate is not only harming people, but also the environment.The more and more divorces all over the world leads to more...
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 It’s obvious that Britney Spears is on her way for a better
life. Her first cameo dragged 3 million viewers more than the show was used to.
Her success led to a second collaboration between the troubled pop singer and the
“How I Met You Mother” crew. The news of her reprising her role as a doctor’s receptionist
made fans wonder...
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 Martin Lawrence, who starred in
blockbusters like “Bad Boys” with Will Smith, “Big Momma’s House,” “Wild Hogs”,
and his recent sitcom series “Martin,” is back with two new films: Universal's
“Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins,” which opens Friday, and the upcoming Disney...
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 Noah Baumbach made a terrific job with his “Squid and the Whale”, depicting the drama of a dysfunctional Brooklyn family that ends with a divorce that leaves deep marks on the two sons. And you rightfully might expect the same quality time from his new “Margot At The Wedding”, but there isn’t unfortunately. Margot, a successful New York...
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 Noah Baumbach made a terrific job with his “Squid and the
Whale”, depicting the drama of a dysfunctional Brooklyn
family that ends with a divorce that leaves deep marks on the two sons. And you
rightfully might expect the same quality time from his new “Margot At The
Wedding”, but there isn’t unfortunately.
Margot, a successful...
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 According to a new study the interaction between extended
family members is dependent on whether they are related through the mother or
the father. The study also showed that maternal grandparents are generally more
attached to their grandchildren than paternal grandparents.
This, says author Thomas Pollet and colleagues at...
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 According to a study conducted by researchers at Harvard University and other schools, men with
deep voices may indeed be better at more than just picking up women, actually a
deep pitched voice can be a predictor of fertility.
The study was released on the internet in the Biology
Letters journal, and presented research on the...
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 Finally English footballer David Beckham will arrive at his new team Los Angeles Galaxy on Thursday after a divorce from Real Madrid that made rivers of ink flow throughout the globe.Beckhams well advertised arrival is due to take place today, after the British superstar’s transfer was announced with high falutin’ by his new team,...
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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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Paul Starzyk, Martinez police officer, was trying to save the lives of three women and three children from a gunman who was threatening to kill them. Officials said that the gunman was looking for his ex-wife after the police officers arrived and then went to an apartment complex behind a hair salon, where gun shots could be heard.Felix...
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 A study made by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center on Health Statistics has shown that American men with ages between 18 and 44 have adopted twice the number of children than the women in the same age group.More than 2002 National Survey of Family Growth’s reports have been used to fulfill the study....
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Clarence J. Weber, 58, killed his wife, Adelina Weber, 51,
stabbing her to death Saturday afternoon in the parking lot outside a suburban Chicago hotel, near the
pancake house where she worked as a server. She collapsed in Spring Hill Suites
Hotel, in Lincolnshire.
Weber was caught by the police on Tuesday in a Crown Point...
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Christie Brinkley admitted on Thursday in a Long
Island, New York
courtroom that she was destroyed the day she found out the fact that her
husband was having a mistress.
Details of her divorce from Peter Cook continue to be disclosed to the public. Whereas initially the man denied the affair with his
18-year-old assistant,...
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Kristen Anne LaBrie is facing charges after she voluntarily stopped her son’s medications for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. 8-year-old Jeremy was said to be having 80% chances of surviving when the doctors diagnosed him. But he ought to have passed through chemotherapy and to have taken the medication.Doctors claim that his mother canceled...
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 A ruling on whether California
should legalize same-sex marriage is due on Thursday from the state’s supreme
court, CNN reports. If the court rules in favor of the gay marriage, California could become the second state after Massachusetts where gay
and lesbian residents can wed.
“What happens in California,
either way, will...
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 Every woman who is betrayed by her boyfriend/husband ends
with a broken heart. It takes time and a lot of self esteem to get over such a
thing. But when you find out that the father of your children is also the
father of another woman’s child, things are getting worse. That’s what happened
to Mary Pat Fossella, wife of Congressman...
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 A school bus driver and amateur artist in the northern Chicago suburb of Zion
filed a petition in order to change his name legally in Lake County Circuit
Court. The 57-year-old Steve Kreuscher wants to be known as “In God We Trust,”
the Associated Press reports. The man’s first name would be “In God” and his
last name “We...
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 Polk County Police organized Operation Paladin which is a
two-week online sex sting in which investigators, posing as a 14-year-old girl,
used chat rooms and instant messaging programs to lure men to a location on Polk County where they get
arrested. This is the way in which 11 men were caught between April 3 and April
6.
Among...
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 During a television interview on Monday, New York’s Governor David A. Paterson
confessed that he had tried both cocaine and marijuana back in 1970s. Mr. Paterson
said that he took cocaine for “a couple of times” when he was about 22 or 23,
and also marijuana when he was 20. However, he added that he hadn’t used drugs
ever since....
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A man killed himself after he had
stabbed his schoolteacher wife and a woman in an alley behind her home Thursday
morning, police said.
Apparently William Michael Layne
managed to enter the school’s building after a student inside walked by a
motion sensor that unlock the door, allowing Layne to enter, Principal Kay...
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 The mayor of Los Angeles, California, Antonio Ramon Villaraigosa confirmed he has an ongoing intimate relationship with television newswoman Mirthala Salinas."I have had a relationship with Ms. Salinas over time. It has evolved, and today I have acknowledged that relationship," said the Latino LA mayor, who is caught in a...
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 During his visit in Brazil Pope Benedict XVI spoke about the stringent problem of Roman Catholics joining different sects in Latin America. The pope said this is a consequence of “the lack of an evangelization completely centered on Christ and his Church.”The pontiff blamed the issue on the lack of proper learning and veiledly accused...
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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 recently divorcing from hip-hop mogul, Russell
Simmons, Kimora Lee won sole custody of her two daughters, Ming, aged 8 and
Aoki, aged 5.
The papers were filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on
Tuesday and apart from granting Kimora Lee exclusive custody of the two girls,
Def Jam Recordings co-founder Russell Simmons was...
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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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 Pamela Anderson can add a tick on her to-do list, now that
her two-month marriage with Rick Salomon has been annulled.
The two obtained the official annulment of their brief
marriage on Monday, according to documents filed in Superior Court. The
official papers cited fraud as the reason of the annulment, but didn’t disclose
any...
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 The bitter divorce that gave tabloid media so much food for
gossip between Beatles’ Paul McCartney and Heather Mills ended with a
settlement with $48.6 million in favor of the former model-turned activist.
According to a document released by the Family Court, Mills
was granted a lump sum of $33 million to which assets worth $15.6...
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 Charlie Sheen’s ex-wife and
former Bond girl, Denise Richards is going to star in a new reality show for E!
set, along with her two daughters, Variety reports. The show, due to begin this summer, has not
been titled yet.
The show is produced by Ryan
Seacrest Productions. The show will follow the 36-year-old actress “as...
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 Travis Barker, member of Blink
182, and Shanna Moakler, former Miss USA, have finally divorced,
according to TMZ.
The couple was on the verge of
breaking up almost two years ago, when Shanna Moakler filed for divorced in August
2006, but by March 2007, the former American beauty queen came running back to
her husband, with...
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 The father of the multi-talented
J. Lo told Escandalo TV, a Spanish language TV show, that his daughter is
pregnant with twins, People reports.
"Yes, twins. The thing is in my family, my sister also had twins,
so it's a hereditary thing," he added.
David Lopez is very eager to
welcome his grandchildren into the...
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 A Chicago law firm went on a creative bent with a billboard proclaiming, “Life is short. Get a divorce,” which city officials were quick to take down.
Lawyers Corri Fetman’s and Kelly Garland found an interesting way to attract potential clients: a sexy image and a cynical (yet truthful) message. The billboard showed...
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 Jayden James Federline, Britney Spears’ youngest son, was rushed to Southwest Mississippi hospital on Sunday because he had suffered an allergic reaction. As a source told People magazine, the 2-year-old boy “had hives, was itchy and irritable.” Britney and her mother, Lynne Spears, spent the night in the hospital to take care of the...
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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’s past year was a terrible one regarding her personal and public life. She released “Blackout” last year and won three VMA’s with her single “Piece of Me.” But that was the beginning of her healthy comeback. Before that, she had had some terrible happenings at the beginning of 2007. Britney lost her children’s custody, got...
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 Former model Christie Brinkley started her divorce petition against her husband, Peter Cook, at the beginning of 2008’s summer. The two haven’t ended their dispute until now, as two children have remained behind their battle. Peter Cook cheated on Brinkley with a teen age girl while he was visiting porn sites on the internet. The former...
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 Hilary Duff’s parents began their divorce on Wednesday. They argued a little…more about Hilary’s 21st birthday party and the day ended with the police taking her father to prison, while he was handcuffed.Bob Duff was sentenced to 10 days in jail for contempt. A Texas judge accused him of violating a court order and forbid him to sell...
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 Charlie Sheen, 42, started his career at the age of only 9, when he appeared in a small role together with his father, Martin Sheen, in the television movie “Two and a Half Man.” Still, his film career began in 1984 with roles in “Red Dawn” and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” The American actor won a Golden Globe and an Emmy……but things...
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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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