Deadlock as Madonna offers Guy £20m

MADONNA and Guy Ritchie have hit a stalemate after she offered £20million to head off a court fight over her £300million fortune, it was claimed yesterday.

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It is feared that the pair, who now talk only through lawyers since announcing their split after eight years of marriage, are facing a bitter divorce battle.

One source said: “Guy is certainly not going to accept the first offer – £20million is a lot of cash, but not in their world.”

The singer’s biographer, J Randy Taraborrelli, said he believed Guy had not rejected the offer. “There was a great deal of haggling about this matter last week, with Madonna upping the amount of Guy’s settlement to more than £20million in hopes that Guy would acquiesce.” They are also said to disagree over the future of son Rocco, eight, and adopted David Banda, three. Madonna, 50, wants to move  with the boys and her 12-year-old daughter Lourdes to New York, but Ritchie would prefer they stay in London.

Guy is certainly not going to accept the first offer

A source

Meanwhile, Ritchie, 40, appears to have found a new love since the break-up –  in the shape of a classical guitar. Looking somewhat forlorn, the film director was spotted strumming in a corner of the set of his latest film. 

But the guitar, which he was playing while taking a break from filming his new movie Sherlock Holmes, is unlikely to help him forget his soon-to-be former wife. Madonna is said to have bought Ritchie his first guitar while they were just dating, as he was laid up while recovering from an operation. 

The couple started music lessons with the same teacher after Richie returned the favour and bought Madonna her own guitar.

But judging by the couple’s marital discord, Madonna will not be joining him for a touching duet. An onlooker on the Manchester set said: “God only knows what’s in his top 10 tunes. It might by D-I-V-O-R-C-E by Tammy Wynette or Neal Sedaka’s Breaking Up Is Hard To Do.”

Somehow the strains of The Beatles’ While My Guitar Gently Weeps may be more fitting.

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