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"After seven and a half years together, Madonna and her husband are calling it quits. Can you believe it? The big news after the jump....Here&amp;#x27;s what the Associated News had to say: Madonna and British filmmaker Ritchie hope to have their divorce finalized by Christmas. They got married in 2000 at a Scottish castle. They have two kids together--Rocco, 8, and David Banda, 3, who was adopted from Malawi. Madonna also has a 12-year-old daughter, Lourdes. The couple are reportedly worth about $525 million--of course, Madonna earned the bulk of that. They have houses in London, Los Angeles and New York, plus a 1,200-acre estate in the England countryside. &amp;quot;The judgment of the court would be to try and assess what they came in with and divide what they built up fairly equally,&amp;quot; said David Allison, a lawyer. Ritchie&amp;#x27;s career took a downturn during the marriage, while Madonna remains wildly beloved worldwide. (Seriously, she has the golden touch.) That might have contributed to their troubles? Maybe he had a hard time being second fiddle? Are you surprised? Isn&amp;#x27;t that sad? They seemed like they had a good thing going--she even took on a British accent, like him! What are your thoughts on this? Do you think it&amp;#x27;s impossible to have a healthy marriage when you&amp;#x27;re under that much scrutiny? P.S. Madonna is 50, can you believe it?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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