Couple meets in Toronto as Cynthia brings daughter to see Yankees star

New York Daily News Jul 14, 08 11:11 AM CDT
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Scott Boras, fired by Alex Rodriguez over the winter, is trying to play peacemaker between the Yankees star and his estranged wife, the New York Daily News reports. Boras met with the couple over the weekend in Toronto, where Cynthia Rodriguez had brought daughter Natasha, 3, to visit her father. Boras "seems to be there with the blessing of the Yankees' front office," one source said, which "welcomes anyone who can get A-Rod's mind back onto baseball."
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Yankee slams 537th homer on emotional day for team

New York Times Jul 13, 08 8:45 AM CDT
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Alex Rodriguez smashed a 3-2 pitch from Toronto's Brian Tallet into the foul pole to claim his 537th career home run yesterday, surpassing Micky Mantle's record on the day Yankee great Bobby Murcer died. The All-Star didn't realize he had moved into 13th place on the all-time homer list until after the game, when he heard about Murcer's death, reports the New York Times.
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Slugger's wife denies spending spree, takes high road in spilling to Post's Adams

New York Post Jul 10, 08 11:38 AM CDT
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Cynthia Rodriguez says she’s “not out to mutilate” husband Alex Rodriguez and while she considers her marriage to the New York Yankees star over, she’ll be there for him when he cracks up, she tells Post columnist Cindy Adams. Of reports on her escape to Paris: “I needed to get away. … My husband knew I was going. He encouraged it."
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Blames ex-manager for dragging him into A-Rod-Madonna fiasco

New York Post Jul 9, 08 10:43 AM CDT
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Lenny Kravitz is outraged his name has been dragged into the Alex and Cynthia Rodriguez divorce drama and blames the whole mess on former manager Guy Oseary, the New York Post reports. The rocker fired Oseary after A-Rod’s former trainer told him Oseary was about to “pimp out Madonna and A-Rod,” his two other clients.
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Pal: Cynthia got loose with Yank's credit card

New York Daily News Jul 8, 08 3:21 PM CDT
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Whatever the intricacies of Alex Rodriguez's maybe-affair with Madonna, soon-to-be-ex Cynthia Rodriguez didn't get mad—she went shopping. “She's been spending wildly," one of A-Rod’s friends tells the New York Daily News . "She spent close to $100,000 on her jaunt to Paris." While she was away, the friend says, she also prevented the third baseman from seeing his children.
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Betrayed spouse's lawyer says infidelity wasn't physical

People Jul 8, 08 9:19 AM CDT
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Alex Rodriguez’s relationship with Madonna amounted to “an affair of the heart,” not physical infidelity, his estranged wife's lawyer tells People . A-Rod had dinners with his sweetie, constantly listened to her music, and dumped his agent for her Kabbalah-loving manager, the New York Post reports.
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Yankees star 'emotionally abandoned his wife and children,' petition says

Associated Press Jul 7, 08 10:49 AM CDT
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Alex Rodriguez's wife filed for divorce today, calling her husband an adulterer who "emotionally abandoned his wife and children," but naming no names. "The marriage of the parties is irretrievably broken because of the husband's extramarital affairs and other marital misconduct," claimed Cynthia Rodriguez's petition for dissolution of the marriage, filed this morning in Miami-Dade County Circuit Court.
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Material Girl scoffs at hunky Yank rumors as his wife files for divorce

People Jul 7, 08 6:15 AM CDT
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Madonna has blasted reports that she’s having an affair with Yankees star A-Rod and divorcing Guy Ritchie. “My husband and I are not planning on getting a divorce,” she said in a statement to People . “I am not romantically involved in any way with Alex Rodriguez.” Meanwhile A-Rod’s wife, who says Madonna used Kabbalah to brainwash him, plans to file for divorce today, according to her attorney.
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OPINION
As wacky breakups abound, Dowd goes in search of rules of engagement

New York Times Jul 6, 08 2:25 PM CDT
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Celebrity couples aren't always models of marital stability, but as Christie Brinkley, A-Rod, and Madonna join forces to hold the planet hostage, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd goes off in search of those telltale signs of who to avoid ending up at the altar with. She finds her answers in a 79-year-old Catholic priest, Father Pat Connor, who's been giving a "Whom Not to Marry" seminar for 40 years. Avoid swapping rings with:
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Spouse accuses Material Girl of luring slugger with Kabbalah

New York Daily News Jul 4, 08 11:32 AM CDT
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Cynthia Rodriguez thinks that Madonna has broken up her marriage with the power of mysticism, friends of Yankee Alex Rodriguez's wife tell the Daily News. She apparently found a note in which the slugger calls Madonna his “true soulmate” and is convinced they're having an affair—and that dark arts are involved. “I feel like Madonna is using mind control over him,” she told one friend.
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Cynthia Rodriguez at rocker's Paris pad

New York Post Jul 3, 08 11:35 AM CDT
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While rumors swirl over Alex Rodgriguez's late nights with Madonna, the Yankee's wife has ditched him for rocker Lenny Kravitz, the New York Post claims. Cynthia Rodriguez, who has yet to file divorce papers, has spent the past four nights shacked up with the Grammy-winner at his pad in Paris, leaving their two young daughters in the care of others in Miami, the Post says.
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Mag reports late-night visits; Material Girl's rep says nothing doing

Us Magazine Jul 2, 08 9:17 AM CDT
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With her marriage to Guy Ritchie reportedly on the rocks, Madonna is entertaining nighttime visits from hunky Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez, US Weekly reports. A-Rod has dropped by the singer’s New York apartment several times and left “as late as midnight,” a source said, but the Material Girl's rep yesterday strongly denied either a pending divorce or any dalliances.
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WSJ panel picks Czech decathlete Sebrle to represent Earth at Intergalactic Games

Wall Street Journal Jun 20, 08 12:40 PM CDT
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If Earth could only