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Ritchie Asking for $60 Million in Madonna Split

by Jarrett Martineau | October 20, 2008 at 10:21 am

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The Material Girl will be parting with more than her soon-to-be-ex-husband Guy Ritchie.

If celebrity rumours are to be believed — which they always should be — then Madonna will be divorcing herself from both her current husband and at least $60 million in cash.

Not surprisingly, sources from Madonna's camp are hollering "gold digger" while Ritchie's people are saying the 60 mill is just Ritchie "recouping his financial losses".

Sounds like this celebrity split is about to get a lot more ugly.

Guy Ritchie is reportedly going to walk away from his marriage to Madonna with $60 million along with their British retreat Ashcombe and the Punchbowl pub (which he owned to begin with.) But Skeletor Barbie is going nuclear and claiming that Guy is a gold-digger, according to The Sun:

Queen of Pop Madonna, who famously follows the mystical Jewish religion Kabbalah, told a friend: “I’m totally devastated that Guy’s turned out to be such a gold-digger.
“I thought we’d been on a spiritual journey together for the past ten years — but obviously I was wrong. He’s just after my money. I’ve worked my ass off for the last 30 years to get what I have, and now this gold-digger wants to take it from me.
“Kabbalah philosophy teaches that you don’t take what you haven’t earned. Well that’s exactly what Guy is doing. He hasn’t earned a penny of it, yet wants to take, take, take. He keeps upping his demands — he just wants more, and more, and more from me. It’s unbelievable.”

On the flip side, sources for Guy Ritchie say he's merely recouping his financial losses and could've taken her to the cleaners:

Guy’s camp are insisting he is NOT a gold-digger — pointing out that, had he wanted, he could have got more than five times the figure involved. They put that sum at around $60million of property — equivalent to about £34.5million. But Madonna’s camp disputes the figure — insisting her husband is after much more than that.