Lawyers for Cynthia Rodriguez, the wife of the New York Yankee player Alex Rodriguez said his relationship with Madonna had been "the last straw" before she decided to file for divorce.
The couple's five-year marriage collapsed amid reports of a new friendship between Mr Rodriguez and the 49-year-old pop singer.
Madonna, who denies any romantic involvement with the player, has reportedly told Mrs Rodriguez's lawyer Earle Lilly not to make further statements about her. "Madonna's outraged", a source said.
Will Cynthia back down? OR will she, convinced that Madge and Hubby had indeed, as it were, done the deed, hit back harder than ever.
Madonna, obviously, can take care of herself. And no matter what happens,let us not feel too sorry for Cynthia. This is someone who's about to get paid in a BIG WAY.
As for A-ROD. Harrogate said all along he ought never to have left Seattle.
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I wouldn't fuck with Madonna. "Mrs. Rodriguez" should zip it with the name-dropping unless she's ready to back it up.
Not to make light of Cynthia's pain, as even if this current allegation is false, evidence of A-Rod's sexcapades has now been unleased into the media by the boatload.
But one has to wonder if it isn't somewhat gratifying for Mrs. Rodriguez to set herself up as a rival, even though a vanquished one, to arguably the most visible American symbol of female sexuality since Marilyn Monroe.
Lay-off A-Rod. As I said before, it is hard, hard-work playing third base for the Yankees. The pressure...
And I am sure that Cynthia feels so much pain she needed to run of to France for comfort in the Arms of Lenny K...
"American Women....Please run to me!"
"Mrs. A-Rod....Please be with me."
Delightful stuff, solon. But this notion of "pain" experienced by members of the rarified class, doesn't it precisely constitute a big part of the paparazzi addiction that none other than megs wisely and compassionately swore off a few months back?
Do we not want to imagine Cynthia feeling just as blue as would the coal miner's wife, if she caught him cheating outside the pool hall? Or something like that.
Harrogate used to watch Soap Operas religiously. All My Children was his favorite. Back in the early 90s, one of AMC's marketing slogans was a voice over, sexily rasping: "when beautiful people do ugly things."
Incidentally, years later in his coursework, Harrogate would quote that line in a paper on Henry James's steamy novella, "In the Cage."
Verily. Life is a Wheel.
I don't think the amount of financial settlement she will recieve lessens in any way the possibility of real anguish for this woman regarding the break-up of her marriage.
Are you suggesting that she's only filing for divorce for financial gain? That strikes me as an oversimplification of a story we really know quite little about.
Here's a more relevant question, I think: why do we seem to care so much about these people? And, moreover, why are celebrities (although I don't think Cynthia Rodriguez is a celebrity) so willing to share the intimate details of their lives?
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for Harrogate's take on the first part of your question, see his upthread comment on poolhall-alley scrogging and the circle of life. While it is surely more complex than this, it might at the same time be just that simple.
As for why celebrities are so willing to play along, a big part of that has got to be that it simple comes with the territory. Unless you are just a ridiculous prodigy of some kind (both Cormac McCarthy and Thomas Pynchon come to mind, although we must remember that well over 95% of Americans have likely never heard of those dudes), you cannot have fame without feeding the beast.
Get in front of cameras as much as possible. All news is good news.
Verily, one cannot but want to call "bullshit!" on most celebs, when they drone on about their lack of privacy. I have plenty of privacy, quoth the plebian, Britney's welcome to it if she'll turn over her mansion and her blockbuster bank account.
One disclaimer. It unironically pisses Harrogate off when the media harass the children of celebs. Ever prone to sentimentality, Harrogate will never forget hearing about Brad and Angelina's child being asked for a picture by his TEACHER, after which he broke into tears.
The gliteratti ask for it. Kids do not.
And finally, connected to all of the above but also in partial and indirect answer to snarky grad student, Harrogate emphasizes the following:
Cynthia Rodriguez has balls the size of Wisconsin (Feingold represents Wisconsin) for being so candid instead of playing the, I'm just an anguished woman who wants to be left alone card.
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