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Madonna's publicist, Liz Rosenberg, has finally answered months of rumors about her reported divorce from Guy Ritchie.

"There are no divorce plans," she wrote in a brief email to Reuters.

While The Daily Mirror ran a two-page piece about the couple's supposed split last week, Us magazine went so far as to suggest an alleged affair between Madonna and Alex Rodriguez. Aside from appearing at a Madonna concert on April 30, the New York Yankees third baseman had apparently been snuck into the pop star's New York apartment, leaving "all the doormen … talking." Rosenberg blasted these reports as well.

Madonna, 49, and Ritchie, 39, exchanged vows in December of 2000 after meeting at a party held by Sting and his wife, Trudie Styler. The marriage is Madonna's second. (She tied the knot with Sean Penn in the '80s.) The couple has two kids: their biological son, Rocco, and David Banda, a Malawian boy who was adopted in 2006. Madonna also has a daughter named Lourdes from an earlier relationship.

The couple's only project together, the film Swept Away, was a rare clunker in Ritchie's career, leading him to tell Reuters, "I don't know (if we'll work together again). We don't want to stick our chins out again."

—The ARTISTdirect Staff
07.01.08