C-Rod's Spending, A-Rod's "Affair of the Heart"

The breakup of Alex Rodriguez and Cynthia Rodrigeuz's marriage took another nasty turn after she filed for divorce yesterday. The Yankee third baseman's friends told the Daily News that C-Rod spent $100,000 during her trip to Paris. This comes as one of Cynthia Rodriguez's divorce lawyers called A-Rod's much-rumored affair with Madonna "an affair of the heart."

Friends for both sides of the couple have been trying to win over the public by leaking details. C-Rod's camp thinks A-Rod's friends were responsible for suggesting she and Lenny Kravitz (whose Parisian home she stayed in) were having an affair, while C-Rod's friends have been saying Madonna bewitched A-Rod with Kabbalah. Of C-Rod's stay in Paris, a friend of Alex Rodriguez told the Daily News she flew her friends first-class to stay with her and "had spa treatments...went to the best restaurants." Plus, the friend accused Cynthia of not letting A-Rod see his two daughters.

Cynthia Rodriguez's lawyer Earle Lilly said that his client is not trying to prove A-Rod had a sexual relationship with Madonna, "The correct analysis is a 'relationship.'...Some people categorize an affair as something as sexual infidelity. We're not claiming that," opting instead for "an affair of the heart." An affair of the heart--Madge, are you losing your touch?

Still, A-Rod's past dalliances with strippers are being brought up again and even Larry King found himself fascinated with the sordid affair, saying, "This is one of those stories that has everything -- a baseball star, singer, another singer, director. We could go on and on..." And he did, with divorce lawyers Neal Hersh, Raoul Felder, Dr. Drew Pinsky and Extra's Carlos Diaz.

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By Jen Chung in News on July 8, 2008 11:56 AM

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AvenueHebrew

Blog it to your heart's content, Jen (and funny how it's always one of the Jens covering this starfucker garbage), it's still not news. Nor is it particularly interesting to anyone but you and Babyhitler.

TKaisen

Can I lobby ESPN to have her listed on the Yankee Payroll for the next 10 years?

amsci

Madonna looks like Macho Man Randy Savage in that picture.

fugothamist

so its official, this site is a sleazy tabloid

whatever pays the bills i guess

hope ur proud of yourselves

slappy

Gee mrguy,

That was very enlightening. I never thought of that.

thanks.

mrguy

let's face facts. we all know that cover stories on a-rod's divorce, or paris hilton being hauled into jail, or amy winehouse, or britney, or any of the other celebrity disasters are not as "serious" news as the G8 putting sanctions on Robert Mugabe, or the current debate over FISA, or the very real possibility that we could be running out of resources like gallium, copper, etc.

But newspapers are businesses. and those covers sell papers. same for gothamist. You think this story didn't rack up a ton of page views? They do. And most people will gladly spend 5 minutes reading about this stuff. Ergo, it's news. We may not like it, we may wish we lived in a more enlightened society where stuff like this wasn't splashed all over our news sites, but as long as people read, buy, and comment on the story, it's news. And even in a more objective sense, the collapsing marriage of New York's biggest baseball star is definitely worthy of some coverage.

You want serious news, read the Wall Street Journal, or the Financial Times, or The Economist. You want New York life, warts and all, read gothamist (or your tabloid of choice) and stop acting like they should be above covering something which, frankly, the majority of their readers are interested in.

slappy

I guess it seems a little silly and so obvious to bother writing this. But really, just because they are rich and famous it doesn't make their personal problems any more interesting. Lots of people have marital problems. So what. Cheap gossip column crap. Boring. And Larry King... Wow. A baseball player and a famous singer. Wow! Why should I care about any of this?

Spirit of 76

The more Gothamist writes about the Rods, the more I think they're made for each other. Not an iota of graciousness between the two of them.

MisterTissue

Who cares? WHO CARES? WHO CARES!??!?!?!

takethecanoli

Why would anyone blow it all for an affair with an old crone like Madonna?

ides_of_march

You'd think a young, rich baseball star could find a better mistress than that skanky old hag Madonna. What a putz.

If he's going to that shallow, narcissistic attention-whore for spiritual advice, he's even stupider.

Jason Giambi should tell A-Rod he doesn't need to return the lucky thong this time.