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Madonna: Guy Ritchie
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Madonna was good friends with actress/Oscar winner Gwyneth Paltrow. Their friendship began in late 1999 and ended in 2003. Gwyneth was the Maid of Honor at Madonna's wedding to Guy Ritchie. (edit)
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Offstage, Madonna took on the roles of wife, mother, children's-book author and humanitarian. In 1996, her daughter Lourdes was born, and in 2000, Madonna married British film director Guy Ritchie. The two have a son, Rocco, and are in the process of adopting a boy from Malawi named David. The family primarily resides in England.
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In 1992 Madonna signed a contract with Time Warner Inc. to create her own record, publishing, and motion-picture company. That same year her book Sex, containing controversial erotic photographs of herself, was published. Madonna later appeared in the films Shadows and Fog (1992), directed by American filmmaker Woody Allen; A League of Their Own (1992); Body of Evidence (1993); Four Rooms (1995); The Next Best Thing (2000); and Swept Away (2002), directed by her husband, Guy Ritchie. In 1996 she had her greatest screen success playing the role of Eva PerĂ³n in Evita (1996), the film of the musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber. For this performance she won a Golden Globe Award for best actress in a musical or comedy film.
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Madonna was married to actor Sean Penn from 1984 to 1988. In 1996, she gave birth to Lourdes Maria (Lola) Ciccone Leon, whom she had with her lover and personal trainer, Carlos Leon. She married British director Guy Ritchie in 2000; they have a son, Rocco John Ritchie. In October 2006, during a trip to an orphanage in Malawi, Madonna adopted a baby boy named David Banda.
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Madonna, 48, is believed to be keen to make sure the book has a Kabbalahist moral message in line with her beliefs. The faith is an offshoot of Judaism, and the singer and her husband Guy Ritchie are both devout followers.
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Madonna is good friends with Sting, the lead singer of The Police, and his wife Trudie Styler. She was introduced to her husband, director Guy Ritchie, by Sting and his wife. Sting is currently a godfather to Madonna's son Rocco. (edit)
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