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| April | 11 | Madonna's father-in-law, John Ritchie, has come out to tell the media that his son, Guy Ritchie, and Madonna have been having marital problems. John Ritchie talked to Closer magazine about the state of the celebrity marriage. ABC News has picked up the Associated Press story on the subject. They quote the elder Ritchie as saying, "L.A. seems to have helped them. It's easier out there because there is less pressure. They seem to have left the bumps they were having over here behind them." This followed comments made by Ritchie that the couple had retreated to Los Angeles to try to patch things up. Rumors of Madonna and Guy Ritchie's marital troubles surfaced earlier in the year. The speculation was increased when Madonna won a Brit Award for Best International Female in February, and left her filmmaking husband off of her list of thank you's.
| | 3 | Madonna will embark on a world tour this summer. Madonna will open the "Confessions Tour" in Los Angeles on May 21, work eastward through North America and jump to Europe on July 30 in Cardiff, Wales. It is Madonna's first tour since the 2004 "Re-Invention Tour." She will be supporting her 2005 album, "Confessions on a Dance Floor." Other stops include Las Vegas, Phoenix, Chicago, Montreal, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Miami and Atlantic City, N.J. European destinations include London, Rome and Paris. The tour will also extend to Japan, featuring concerts in Tokyo and Osaka. More dates are expected to be added.
| | | March | 12 | Robbie Williams, Madonna and Bob Geldof were all winners at Germany's annual Echo music awards. Madonna, who didn't attend the event, won the best female artist award with Williams taking the male version. British rock group Coldplay, also absent, won the best international group award. Among the other laureates were US metal group System of a Down and Argentinian singer Semino Rossi. Geldof, a campaigner for third world poverty relief and organizer of the Live Aid and Live 8 charity shows, received a special prize. The Echo prize for the best music DVD went to veteran Australian rockers AC/DC for 'Family Jewels'.
| | 6 | Madonna has revealed how she explained her infamous kiss with Britney Spears at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards to her daughter, Lourdes (9). Madonna told gay magazine Out how Lourdes became "obsessed" with gay issues after the MTV stunt and asked her: "Mom, you know that they say you are gay?" She then said she explained to Lourdes by saying that it wasn't sexual at all, telling her: "I am the mommy pop star and she is the baby pop star. I am kissing her to pass my energy on to her."
| | 3 | US pop diva Madonna wants to buy a house in the Israeli town of Rosh Pina, where the ancient Jewish Kabbalah tradition expects the Messiah to appear at the end of the world, a local newspaper reported. According to the report, the owner of a 100-year-old, ramshackle five-bedroom villa overlooking the Sea of the Galilee had been recently contacted several times by representatives of the superstar with a view to selling his property. Madonna wants to renovate the building into a centre of study of mystical Jewish texts pored over by Kabbalah followers.
| | | February | 16 | Reportedly had hernia surgery. | | 15 | Brit Awards for Music: Voted best international female artist. | | | January | 30 | Reportedly bought a new house in Mayfair, London for her staff. | | 23 | Cannes' NRJ Music Awards: Voted the best female international artist. |
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