Arts, Briefly: Madonna to Pay Guy Ritchie $76 Million

While audiences paid about $19 million to watch Guy Ritchie’s most recent movie, “RocknRolla,” Madonna, above right, will be paying at least four times that much to end her marriage to him. The Associated Press reported that Madonna would settle her divorce with Mr. Ritchie, above left, the film director, for at least $76 million; her publicist, Liz Rosenberg, told The A.P. that the settlement would be in the range of $76 million to $92 million, a figure that included a country home in England and a pub the couple owned in London. Madonna and Mr. Ritchie were married in 2000 and granted a preliminary divorce in November that will become final in January. They have two sons, Rocco, 8, and David Banda, 3. Madonna also has a daughter, Lourdes, 12, from a previous relationship.




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