{"id":2334,"date":"2008-10-20T12:52:08","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T12:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2008\/10\/its-all-material-her-madgestys.html"},"modified":"2008-10-20T12:52:08","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T12:52:08","slug":"its-all-material-her-madgestys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2008\/10\/its-all-material-her-madgestys.html","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s All &#8216;Material&#8217;: Her Madgesty&#8217;s Marriage, Money, and Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"madonnaandguypicforic.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/import\/imgs\/madonnaandguypicforic.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"165\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right;margin: 0 0 20px 20px\" \/><\/span>As any Brit knows, in cases of English celebrity\/superrich divorce, settlements tend to favor the less wealthy party. (Just ask Sir Paul McCartney.) Especially if there&#8217;s no prenup. Which is one of the reasons that the terms of the in-negotiations divorce of Guy Ritchie and megastar-for-all-time Madonna, are attracting media attention. (Although I can&#8217;t believe that someone as money-, image-, and business-savvy as Madonna didn&#8217;t have some sort of prenup in effect for this marriage.) Apparently, the couple is worth 525 million. And in a poll, CNN viewers were asked if Ritchie should get half of the Madonna fortune: 36 percent said yes, 64 said no.<br \/>\nIn this CNN video report, we learn that one of the major differences that Madge and Ritchie must have had was over the authenticity of Kabbalah as a religion. In an interview with Jerry Penacoli, correspondent for Extra, Ritchie revealed that he doesn&#8217;t believe that Kabbalah&#8217;s a religion. And as everyone knows, Madonna is a faithful devotee of the belief.<br \/>\nEmbedded video from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/video\">CNN Video<\/a><br \/>\nI&#8217;m sure that the lawyers hired on both sides will be top-notch, and that a settlement will be offered: the couple has three children, Lourdes is Madonna&#8217;s from her previous relationship, Rocco is Guy and Madonna&#8217;s son, and David Banda (still going by his last name instead of either of his megastar adoptive parents&#8217;) was the child they adopted last year.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.locatetv.com\/person\/madonna\/33056\" target=\"_top\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.locatetv.com\/person\/madonna\/33056\/351x85_belief.gif\" alt=\"Madonna at LocateTV.com\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As any Brit knows, in cases of English celebrity\/superrich divorce, settlements tend to favor the less wealthy party. (Just ask Sir Paul McCartney.) 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