The men in Madonna's life
Madonna once said the following about men: “I would like to meet a respectable man whom the public would love and I would be proud of.” There were many men in the life of the pop queen, but only a few managed to leave a mark on her heart. JOHN BENITEZ In 1984, Madonna met DJ and producer John Benitez, better known as Jellybean, who set the tone for the beginning of her musical career. The couple was introduced by musician Stephen Bray, with whom Benitez was collaborating at that time. The romance broke out instantly and lasted about two years. John took part in the recording of the singer’s famous hits: Everybody, Borderline and Lucky Star.
SEAN PENN In 1985, Madonna marries Hollywood actor Sean Penn. The marriage lasted five years, but it can hardly be called happy. Stormy showdowns, close attention from the press and the difficult character of the actor did not allow them to create a strong family. The boiling point was the offensive nickname that the press gave Sean, dubbing him “Mr. Madonna.” And the finale was the beatings that the drunken actor inflicted on his now ex-wife.
WARREN BEATTY Immediately after her high-profile divorce from Penn, Madonna embarked on a whirlwind of new entertainment. The singer’s next passion is actor Warren Beatty, whom Madonna met on the set of the film “Dick Tracy.” This novel caused a lot of controversy: some believed in their feelings, while others considered it a PR campaign for the film. Be that as it may, Madonna herself admitted more than once that she was simply crazy about the Hollywood heartthrob.
2PAC The romance between Madonna and the legendary rapper Tupac began in 1993, but the couple tried to keep the relationship secret. To direct questions, both answered that they were connected only by musical creativity. Only recently, more than 20 years later, in an interview with TV presenter Howard Stern, Madonna confirmed that in the mid-90s she actually had a love affair with Tupac.
CARLOS LEON In 1994, Madonna met dancer Carlos Leon, with whom she had a daughter, Lourdes Maria Ciccone-Leon, in 1996. After the birth of Lourdes, Madonna puts an end to their relationship and offers Carlos a significant fee in exchange for his renunciation of custody of the child. Madonna and Carlos still have a good relationship.
VANILLA ICE Next on the singer’s track record was the white-skinned American rapper Vanilla Ice, photographs of whom were published in Madonna’s “Sex” photo album. The singer openly called Vanilla her lover, and she was not at all embarrassed that the rapper was 11 years younger. Their romance lasted eight months, and the reason for the breakup was the singer’s character, which the musician did not like.
LUKE PERRY The star of the series “Beverly Hills, 90210” also did not escape the charms of the pop queen. They appeared together in public, did not hide passionate kisses, and did not explain their relationship to the public in any way. The affair with Perry became a fleeting hobby in the singer’s stormy personal life.
GUY RITCHIE In 1998, Madonna met British director Guy Ritchie. In 2000, Guy and Madonna had a luxurious wedding, and in the same year the couple had a son, Rocco. Beautiful and happy, they regularly appeared in public together, and it seemed that the strong Madonna had finally found a man stronger than herself. However, in 2008, the couple announced their divorce. This time the reason was the overly domineering character of Guy Ritchie.
JESUS LUZ After a long and difficult relationship with Guy Ritchie, Madonna plunges into an affair with Brazilian fashion model Jesus Luz. Their relationship created quite a stir in the press. The young and incredibly handsome Jesus was 28 years younger than the pop star, but this did not stop them from being together for about two years. In 2010, the romance ended on the initiative of Jesus. Rumor has it that the reason was too obvious an age difference and a lack of common interests.
BRAHIM ZAIBAT But Madonna did not suffer for long and found herself a lover even younger. The singer’s chosen one was a young dancer from her own ballet, Brahim Zaibat, who was… 29 years younger than her! The affair began in 2010 and lasted three years. In 2013, this relationship also failed: Madonna did not forgive Brahim for cheating with his partner on the show “Dancing with the Stars.”
TIMOR STEFFENS In 2014, Madonna began dating Dutch choreographer and dancer Timor Steffens. He was thirty years younger than the singer, the relationship looked promising, but the couple suddenly broke up while on vacation in Europe. Timor gave several interviews in which he spoke warmly of Madonna and said that he “didn’t feel the difference in age,” since his lovers were always older than him and he “learned a lot from them.”
KEVIN SAMPAYO Madonna has been dating handsome Kevin since 2020. The age difference was 33 years. Madonna has repeatedly said that she was impressed by the fact that Kevin “didn’t run to the press after the first date.” The young man works as a model with Dolce & Gabbana, Versace and Armani. And he became closely acquainted with Madonna during the filming of the Bitch I'm Madonna video.
AKHLAMALIK WILLIAMS Madonna's latest passion. Just two years older than her daughter Lourdes. According to rumors, he has been dating the Queen of Pop for three months. Akhalmalik, the son of a military veteran, dreams of “changing the world through art.” The young man worked in the singer’s show ballet and participated in her world tour.
PS Not all of Madonna's men are represented in the post.
Madonna showed off her boyfriend, who is 30 years younger than her
Singer Madonna is rarely lucky with men, and it seems that the star has found herself a new “toyboy”. The singer does not experience any difficulties in replacing one model with another. After breaking up with Brahim Zaibat, the pop diva began dating a new boyfriend, who is damn reminiscent of her past one.
The other day, Madonna showed off her new lover during a visit to New York. The 26-year-old, named Timor Steffens, is almost 30 years younger than the star, who is famous for his predilection for young guys. But there is good news - the aspiring actor is at least older than Madonna's previous boyfriends. After her divorce from British director Guy Ritchie in 2008, the singer showed that she was interested in a completely different type of man sexually. Before her affair with Brahim, she dated Brazilian model Jesus Luz, who at that time was barely 20 years old.
Madonna and Jesus Luz dated about five years ago
Madonna recently opened up about her romances with men:
I don't want to live my personal life, I like being a mother. My children have filled that empty space in many ways, and they inspire me in many ways. But I need a life partner, and I think that's what most people think. I have never really lived an ordinary life, so it would be pretty stupid if it were me to start thinking that I would live like everyone else.
Madonna showed off her new boyfriend
A young man 30 years younger than the star
Let us remember that at the end of last year Madonna broke up with Brahim Zaibat, a young man with whom the affair lasted three years. According to eyewitnesses, the couple was very happy next to each other, but in the end the singer decided that she should “let go” of the guy. In recent years, Brahim Zaibat literally became a member of Madonna’s family; he got along well with her children and often remained “as a nanny” in the singer’s absence.
Brahim Zaibat and Madonna dated for three years
The 55-year-old singer first met her future boyfriend at the presentation of her own Macy's clothing line, which she produces together with her daughter Lourdes. Soon after they met, Madonna and Brahim Zaibat began dating. The young man even managed to work as a dancer during Madonna’s MDNA world tour.
The guy was a dancer in the singer's team
New boyfriend's name is Timor Steffens
I wonder how long the relationship between Madonna and her new boyfriend will last? Is the singer serious or is this her next short-term romance?
Photo source: dailymail.co.uk
Madonna from A to Z
She's 58 and still gives concerts that draw crowds, jumping around the stage like she's twenty, provoking everyone all the time. She is, as it were, a singer, and remains the author of several of the main catchy pop hits of the twentieth century and several very beautiful “slow songs” (yes, she sometimes takes an active part in writing songs herself).
But in English, on American Wikipedia, she is called not a “singer”, but an “entertainer”. Her masterpiece is not so much songs, but life, pieces of which fed many glossy magazines and their readers. Like it or not, we have lived a huge part of our lives with the fragile tank of Madonna. Most of us do not know how to set a goal and achieve it. But she…
Here is the ABC of her life.
A - ABBA , the most famous pop group of the 70s. Only twice did they allow other performers to use their musical material. In one of these cases, the melody from Gimme Gimme Gimme was used by Madonna for the single Hung Up. It was very difficult: Madonna had to send her “emissary” to Stockholm to obtain permission from Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, negotiations were underway. “We admire Madonna, she’s been on stage for 21 years, and nothing bad will happen,” Andersson said later, from whom he finally managed to snatch the music.
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B is for Britney Spears , the girl she kissed at the 2003 MTV Awards. This is one of the most famous episodes in both of their careers. Moreover, Christina Aguilera was also on stage, and Madonna kissed her too, but the audience practically didn’t see it: she kissed Britney first, and the camera immediately switched to the girl’s ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake, who was sitting in the audience, to show his reaction.
B - Vogue (i.e. “fad”, “fashion”), one of her most famous songs (although it is difficult to choose from this variety - there are also La Isla Bonita, and Material Girl, and Secret, and Like a Virgin) . The luxurious black and white video was shot by David Fincher, in the future one of the most virtuoso stylists in Hollywood, the author of “Fight Club.”
Madonna - Like a Virgin Official Music Video. I made it through the wilderness Somehow I made it through Didn't know how lost I was Until I found you I was beat incomplete I'd been had, I was sad and blu…
G – Flexibility . Madonna would never have remained on the throne of the most popular singer in America if she had not reinvented her image on each new album: from Marilyn Monroe she became a fatal, decadent harlot, then, sharply, a fragile woman experiencing unhappy love, then a diva, swaying disco, then - a loving mother, then - a political activist. If you compare her performance of Like a Virgin twenty years ago and at last year’s concert in Moscow, it turns out that these are two different songs and two different women. In the early 80s, after the release of Madonna’s debut album, one critic wrote: “Cyndi Lauper will last a long time, but no one will need Madonna in six months.” How wrong he was. Cyndi Lauper never knew how to change like that.
Even at 55 years old, Madonna continues to impress with her appearance.
D - Diet . Madonna strictly monitors her diet. They say that half of the food she eats in a day is products made from cereals and wholemeal flour (she has muesli for breakfast and steamed brown rice for an afternoon snack). Also very fond of vegetables, fruits and nuts. However, there are so many legends about Madonna’s diet that you don’t know what to believe: someone, on the contrary, claims that she doesn’t mind eating something sweet, and also loves caviar and even popcorn. During an online Twitter conference last year, Madonna admitted that she loves french fries and pink champagne, but she is ashamed of it.
E - Jewish mysticism , i.e. Kabbalah. Madonna became seriously interested in this teaching in 1997. Within a few years, she adopted the name Esther (which means “star” - although this name is unofficial, it is not registered anywhere in the documents). E, however, is criticized by rabbis for her propaganda of Kabbalah - they say, it turns out to be some kind of amateurism on the verge of blasphemy. Madonna once said in despair that if she had joined the Nazi Party, it would have caused less controversy.
J – Jean-Michel Basquiat , one of the most famous American artists of the 80s, was a friend (and rumored lover) of Madonna in his youth. One day, his other girlfriend even got into a fight with Madonna out of jealousy - and Basquiat later depicted this in one of his compositions.
Z - Zaibat , Brahim Zaibat (unthinkable surname, but ok), her current boyfriend, French, fashion model, mulatto, born in 1988. They have been together for several years. Brahim's mother, Frenchwoman Patricia Vidal living in Lyon, at some point met her son's mistress. “He called me and said: “I have a new girlfriend,” the Daily Mail quoted Patricia as saying. “And he said something about the eight-year age difference. I replied that I didn’t see anything wrong with that: he was always somehow older than his age, and it would be nice for him to chat with an older girlfriend. And he said: “No, mom, you don’t understand. She is eight years older than YOU. And her name is Madonna."
In the mid-80s, the artist was a cheerful, carefree and rather ridiculous creature (a still from the film “Who’s That Girl?”).
Y - Yoga . Madonna constantly deals with it and has become a great specialist; She is also interested in Pilates. It's part of the healthy lifestyle she's obsessed with. She also uses exclusively natural cosmetics (she loves products from Bare Essentials).
K - “Kazaky” , a Ukrainian group that starred in its video “Girls gone wild”. The Cossacks look rather atypical - half naked and wearing high heels. "They don't know English, so we relied on sign language," Madonna said.
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L - Lourdes , her daughter, born in the fall of 1996 (father is Madonna's fitness trainer Carlos Leon). Lourdes is an English pronunciation, but it would probably be more correct to pronounce Lourdes. This is a city in France, a place of pilgrimage for many Catholics. In 1858, the Virgin Mary appeared to a girl named Bernadette 18 times. The girl was examined many times by psychiatrists and found to be completely sane. It was in honor of this city that Madonna named her daughter.
M - Madonna . Her real name, by the way. Madonna Veronica Louise Ciccone. Many believe that she chose a pseudonym to once again mock Catholicism; but in fact, in the traditions of Italians, Spaniards or Latin Americans, giving children the names of not only saints, but sometimes even God. It would never occur to anyone to name a newborn boy Jesus, but Jesus is a completely normal name for a baby. True, Madonna herself admitted that her name was somehow too exotic: “I have only met two women who were called that: myself and my own mother!”
By the way, her mother died of breast cancer when she was 30, and Madonna Jr. was only six, and this was a tragedy for the girl. For a time, Madonna called herself Veronica. Then she left Madonna - probably in memory of her mother.
N - “Don’t leave me” (Ne Me Quitte Pas, in English - If You Go Away, “If you leave”). One of the most poignant songs of the twentieth century, a masterpiece by the Belgian Jacques Brel, is about the deadly horror that life can turn into after the departure of a loved one. It has been performed by dozens of wonderful singers, from Frank Sinatra to Elena Kamburova, from Marlene Dietrich to Ilya Lagutenko, from Barbra Streisand to Dalida, from Mireille Mathieu to Julio Iglesias, from Ray Charles to Tom Jones. And in 2004, Madonna unexpectedly recorded a successful cover version (since she is the least vocal of all those listed, she had to try, and the result exceeded expectations). In general, she rarely covers old songs.
If You Go Away - Madonna.
O - Oscars , a ceremony at which she appeared several times (one of the songs she performed, You Must Love Me, written by Andrew Lloyd Webber specifically for the film version of Evita, was even awarded a statuette). But her most famous appearance at the Oscars took place in 1991: she appeared with Michael Jackson. For a short time, two of America's biggest pop stars pretended to be having an affair, but few believed.
Madonna - You Must Love Me. Madonna — You Must Love Me HD All my videos are taken from “Original DVD” and converted into HD format.
P - Penn , Sean Penn, actor, her first husband. The marriage was short, only four years, and Penn beat her. “I was too obsessed with my career,” she later said about the reasons for the separation. “There were so many demons living inside me then...” Penn said. But they maintained friendly relations. In 2008, during the filming of the film “Milk” about the leader of the gay movement, Penn (the wolf who put on sheep’s clothing for this role and later received an Oscar) constantly sent SMS to Madonna.
R - Rocco Ritchie , her son, born in 2000. Father is director Guy Ritchie (“Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels”), whom Madonna met in 1999 thanks to a mutual friend Sting. They got married at the end of 2000, after Rocco was born, and they were married by a female pastor. For Guy, this marriage had terrifying consequences: he forgot how to make movies, released garbage after garbage, and only after divorcing Madonna did he come to his senses and make “Rock and Roll Man” and “Sherlock Holmes.”
Sean Penn is the singer's first husband. Of course, it was difficult not to fall in love with such a guy...
Madonna takes her children on tour and tries to show them the cities where the concerts are held.
C - “Sex” , a picture book that Madonna released in 1992 (at the same time the music album “Erotica” was released). Black and white, very explicit photographs were accompanied by text written by Madonna on behalf of a certain “Mrs. Dita.” For “Sex,” 80,000 photographs were taken (of course, much less was included in the final version); at one point, Madonna ran naked down the street, almost causing a car accident (motorists couldn’t believe their eyes). In the book, Madonna, among other things, admits that she never liked pornography - “in porn films everyone is ugly, everyone is pretending, and in general everything is stupid.” Sex was sold in aluminum packaging and instantly topped The New York Times bestseller list. True, both critics and fans of the singer scolded him. Some said this was the end of her career. Feeling that she had gone too far, Madonna began to release not provocative videos, but elegant, slow-moving ones, such as Take a Bow (in general, already in 1993, she dramatically changed her image, becoming much softer and feminine).
Madonna Take a Bow Live.
T is for True Blue , the 1986 album that made her a bona fide superstar, one of the best-selling albums in history. In particular, there are Papa Don't Preach, Live To Tell and La Isla Bonita (the latter song was written for Michael Jackson and was intended for his album Bad, but Jackson refused).
Madonna Papa Don`t Preach. Madonna Papa Don`t Preach Live Montreal 2012 HD 1080P
D - "Die Another Day" , a James Bond film for which Madonna wrote the title song - one of the worst in Bond history and her own career. The song, however, was nominated for a Golden Globe in the Best Song category and at the same time for a Golden Raspberry in the Worst Song category.
F - French , which Madonna speaks well (in her youth she spent quite a long time in France, Belgium and Tunisia). They love her in France; she supported Jacques Chirac when he ran for president.
X – Christianity . First of all, of course, Madonna causes great irritation among Catholics, representatives of the very denomination in which she grew up. Following the release of the 1988 “Like a Prayer” video, in which Madonna kisses a black saint in church, religious groups called for a boycott of not only Madonna, but also the drink maker Pepsi, which used the song in its advertising. Pope John Paul II asked Catholics in Italy not to attend her concerts. The concert in Rome in 1990 was indeed canceled - too few tickets were sold. In 2006, the performance of the song Live To Tell caused no less noise - Madonna sang it while hanging on a cross (after the Moscow concert, Orthodox Christians also joined in the criticism).
Madonna - Like A Prayer. 2006 WMG Like A Prayer
The scandals continue to this day - three years ago she gave a concert in Warsaw, and Polish Catholics were going to picket near the airfield where the concert took place. They hoped to drown out Madonna's singing with religious hymns and patriotic songs. They abandoned the idea, but still did not fail to do a minor dirty trick to Madonna: the Polish Catholic Committee for the Defense of Faith and National Traditions sent a request to the Warsaw sanitary and epidemiological service, demanding to find out “whether people from the singer’s service personnel are carriers of contagious and viral diseases.”
Moreover, Madonna says that she continues to be a Christian, and Kabbalah for her is more of a philosophical teaching.
C - censorship . Madonna had to deal with it more than once: some of her videos were not shown in many countries (for example, Like a Prayer was not released in Italy). In 1994, she gave an interview to David Letterman (in the evening program from which our “Evening Urgant” was more or less copied) and used the word fuck 14 times - this turned out to be Letterman’s most censored show.
Lourdes, 16, is about to outgrow her famous mom.
H – reading . As her pal Gwyneth Paltrow once said, Madonna is a “bookworm”; her favorite books are Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa, The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, and Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts. It is also known that she loves “The Alchemist” by Coelho, “The Little Prince” by Saint-Exupery, “Captain Corelli’s Mandolin”, “Little Women”, “Memoirs of a Geisha”.
However, Madonna is not only a reader, but also a writer: in addition to “Sex”, she is the author of several children's fairy tales.
SH - “ Masterpiece”, the best song from her latest album, very simple and at the same time wonderful in its tenderness and beauty. About falling in love. Completely masculine in intonation. It's easy to imagine a Russian yard guitar version. “If you were Mona Lisa, the Louvre would be your home”...
Madonna - Masterpiece. Madonna - Masterpiece (Music Video).
Sh - generosity . Madonna does a lot of charity work, especially in the poor African country of Malawi, where her adopted son David is from.
E - "Evita" , musical by Alan Parker (1996). She fought desperately for the role of Evita Peron, and for good reason: the song “Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina” is now forever associated with her.
The role of the wife of the Argentine dictator brought her a Golden Globe Award (to be honest, no one has ever appreciated her acting achievements so highly: Madonna is the winner of eight Golden Raspberry anti-prizes as the worst actress, and in 2000 she received an honorary Golden Raspberry as worst actress of the 20th century).
Yu - Yotube , which now contains hundreds of rare clips dedicated to Madonna, from Japanese commercials in which she starred in the 80s, to interviews that you will not find anywhere else and two-hour recordings of concerts - for example, in Barcelona in the 90s .
I am rage , a feeling that Madonna has evoked in people many times.
And she insulted not only believers. At one point, for example, she announced that she would rather kill herself than agree to become Mariah Carey. Mariah snorted in response and said that the last time she was interested in Madonna’s work was in the eighth grade!
Madonna's whole life from A to Z. The most famous singer on the planet turns 55 KP-TV
But at the age of twenty-six, Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone had seen a lot of “bad guys”, and it was not easy to surprise her with street manners and ostentatious cool. Moreover, Sean Penn was not so much a “street guy” as he played it.He was born on August 17, 1960 into an artistic family whose lifestyle, however, was very similar to the traditions of the American middle class: a house on credit, corn flakes for breakfast. Penn's paternal grandfather was a native of Lithuania, but he did not inherit even a drop of the famous Baltic phlegmatism.
His temperament was like a volcano - from early childhood he frightened his parents with outbursts of aggression. This is not to say that they were completely unreasonable. The boy never exploded out of nowhere. But there. where the other child calmed down after ten minutes. Sean went on a rampage for hours. When he began to take out his aggression on other people, his mother took him to the doctor and learned that her child had an “extremely flexible psyche that needed some correction.”
Perhaps, if she were not an actress, and her husband was a director, what the doctor said would have frightened her. But for her. whose instrument is emotions, the “mobile psyche” was inseparable from what is commonly called the “creative disposition.” Who knows how Sean Penn’s life would have turned out if his mother had nevertheless set out to “correct” his character.
The baby spent his childhood and youth in Santa Monica. a place about which writer Jackie Collins said: “There are more stars here than in the sky.” Sean's father, director Leo Penn, had a good enough reputation in Hollywood for his son to be considered a "golden youth."
Sean Penn's best school friends were Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez. So does Sean. the offspring of the famous Martin Sheen had no doubts about their future profession. “He always knew he would be an actor,” Leo Penn said about his son. “And I was determined to become nothing less than the next James Dean.”
In Sean's first roles, one can really notice the unconscious imitation of the idol of the 50s: a gloomy look, a cheeky grin, a slightly defiant manner of acting. The director of his debut film later recalled: “Sean Penn looked like a young horse stagnant in a stall. Talent bubbled within him. needed a way out, and it was very obvious that Sean had no idea what to do with it.”
She and Madonna are similar in many ways. Since childhood, both have been obsessed with the desire not just to become famous, but to become “great.” “Madonna was born with hair, a mole on the back of her head and a fierce competitive spirit. – her brother Christopher Ciccone said about her. “No matter what we were talking about, she certainly had to be the best.” So does Sean. Madonna loved to play “the girl from the bottom,” and... as in Penn's case, this was not true.
She was born into a wealthy Michigan family. My father, a taciturn, reserved man, worked in the defense industry. “Whoever serves the government should not talk.” - he said. as if justifying his own emotional stinginess. Mrs. Ciccone was a homemaker and... according to the memoirs of Madonna herself, “an angel at home”: “She illuminated everything around with joy. When my mother hugged me, I was the happiest in the world.”
Alas. happiness did not last long: when Madonna was not even six years old, her mother died of breast cancer. It is unknown what was a big blow for Madonna – the death of her adored mother or her father’s new marriage. Madonna hated her stepmother with all her heart. For the dresses that she bought for her. For that. that for reasons of economy she divided one boiled chicken among ten.
Finally, for the fact that this strange woman took her mother’s place not only at the dinner table, but also in her father’s bed. Joan was indeed stingy, did not know how to cook and could serve semi-finished hamburgers that were charred on top and icy inside. But she treated the children well and was very offended when, years later, Madonna began to talk about what it was like to be Cinderella with an evil stepmother.
The flip side of hatred for my stepmother was a painful love for my father. Madonna persistently demanded his attention and always achieved it. “She clearly suffers from the Electra complex - the female version of the Oedipus complex,” writes Christopher Ciccone in his book Life with My Sister Madonna. “As children, we all fought for our father’s love, but Maddie usually won.” It didn’t matter that she was too old to sit on his lap, she still climbed, pushing the other children away.”
Restrained, stingy in expressions of feelings, his father nevertheless singled out Madonna - she really was his favorite. She was simply a copy of her mother: a similar voice, facial expressions, a lively mind. big dreams. These dreams were a special source of pride for Papa Ciccone: unlike her peers, Madonna did not dream of becoming a model or pop singer.
Her idols were classical ballet stars Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev. When Madonna entered the University of Michigan to study dance, her father's pride knew no bounds. “Dad had a peculiar idea about it. what is art. - Madonna recalled. “He would be happy to see me as an opera singer, a ballerina or a Hollywood diva like Gloria Swanson.” He considered everything else unworthy.”
But Madonna did not succeed as a classical dancer - she quickly realized her “ceiling” and realized that she did not want to spend her entire life pursuing roles in the corps de ballet. However, Madonna survived the collapse of her own hopes of one day appearing on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera much easier than her father’s deep disappointment. Perhaps it was then that she had the desire to become a great actress. A desire that has turned into mania over the years.
On January 10, 1985, the Universal film studio was crowded - a whole crowd of fans wanted to watch the filming of Madonna's new video, Material Girl. The filmmakers grimaced contemptuously: for them, this Marilyn Monroe-dyed blonde in pink silks was nothing more than an upstart.
Subsequently, Sean Penn claimed that he wandered into the set only to say hello to his friend Mary Lambert, the director of the video: “I didn’t really know who Madonna was. Of course, she was already very famous, but in my world few people were interested in pop music.”
This is deceit: according to the testimony of Emilio Estevez. Sean was very familiar with Madonna's work and was her big fan. Moreover, they say that he asked Mary Lambert to introduce him to the pop star. 11enn described his first impression of his future wife in one phrase: “Quite a nasty voice and a great ass.” Madonna, in turn, called it a “lightning strike”: “When I saw Sean, I realized that this was my man for life.”
“I was amazed by that. how my sister clung to this guy. – Christopher Ciccone recalls. “He was good, but not at all her type.” It’s no secret that Madonna prefers Latin music.” Sean was not a modest man; by the time he met Madonna, he had experienced several whirlwind romances, including with actress Susan Sarendon. He had a serious relationship with his co-star in the film “Race the Moon” Elizabeth McGovern. But Madonna’s pressure came as a complete surprise to him. “He was confused! - Penn's friend Charlie Sheen recalled. “He just didn’t know what to do, because Madonna is not the girl next door, but a full-fledged star.”
However, in some circles, Sean Penn's name was much more respected than Madonna's, and she knew it. He was called the most talented actor of the new generation, a young genius. The Oscars that Sean has today have confirmed the prescience of these assessments. Madonna, who was dating singer Prince at the time. without hesitation, she left a teen idol of vague sexual orientation for a serious young actor, albeit with a reputation as a hooligan
On their first date they just talked. Madonna did everything to make Sean forget about her fame as a pop diva: she dressed deliberately simply, amazed him with her knowledge of world film classics, and said that more than anything in the world she loved watching old films with Claudette Colbert and eating pizza. Many years later, she would pull the same trick with her second husband, director Guy Ritchie. And it will work again.
The difference between the “real Maddie” and the stage image, which Madonna so skillfully emphasized, delighted Penn. Subsequently, Sean himself was surprised how he was. absorbed acting with mother's milk, flesh from the flesh of Rollywood. didn't recognize the pretense.
The relationship between the young actor and the pop star developed rapidly. A few weeks after they met, Penn and Madonna announced their engagement. When asked by journalists how long it will last. Madonna replied: “Exactly as long as it takes me to make a wedding dress.” And parents
Penna and Madonna's father persuaded the lovers to wait at least a little. But Madonna did not take her father’s opinion into account too much. And Sean was so in love that he flew into a rage at the mere word “expectation.”
There are a lot of things that infuriate Sean. Madonna understood in the first months of communicating with him. Aggressive behavior, regular attacks on everyone around him, it seems, were the very correction that Penn’s extremely mobile psyche required.
But for the singer at that time it was important that she met an infinitely passionate person, and the two of them were drawn to each other. “Sean told me she drove him crazy,” recalled actress Meg Lowry, Penn’s friend, in Randy Taraborrelli’s book “Madonna.” “But it bothered him.” “She’s crazy,” he told me. - And I'm crazy. Imagine us together. Yes, not weak..."
Most of all, the journalists were happy about the union of “crazy people”. Photographers were on duty at the houses of Madonna and Penn in shifts. They accompanied the couple either on a date to a restaurant, or to a party in a club, or on a walk to Westwood Cemetery. where Madonna visited Marilyn Monroe's grave. In the wake of the surge in popularity, the men's magazine Penthouse announced the publication of nude photographs of Madonna taken several years ago, when the girl was not yet particularly famous and did not think at all that innocent hooliganism at a photo shoot could later harm her so much.
Playboy magazine, in turn, reported the presence of scandalous photographs. Madonna publicly stated that she had nothing to be ashamed of, and she herself confessed to her friend Tommy Queen. that he doesn't know what to do. Quinn suggested not to give a damn about it - after all, Marilyn Monroe also posed nude, and that was okay. “What will my father say? – Madonna was worried. - Why should he see something like this? And Sean! What will Sean think?!”
When the issue of Penthouse with nude photographs of Madonna, helpfully sent to Penn's address, appeared before his eyes, he went berserk. The singer barely calmed her lover. But on June 30, 1985, when the couple was preparing for a press conference at a Nashville hotel, someone threw a bunch of balloons with a business card at the door of their room, hinting at Madonna's pregnancy:
“Congratulations to mom and dad. How about an exclusive? Nothing could hold Penn back. “He flew out of the room, shouting that he was tearing everyone’s heads off. – recalled the witness of this scene, Laurie Mulrenin. “When one of the journalists took a photograph of him, he became completely furious. Somewhere he picked up a stone and literally threw it at the photographer’s head, then snatched his camera from him and smashed it on his back.
The photographer fell, and Penn continued to kick him in rage. When another journalist tried to step forward. Penn gave him a black eye. Madonna, who also left the room, pulled her hat over her eyes and disappeared.” Then the actor was arrested and sentenced to ninety days in prison and a fine.
Already during the engagement, it became clear that Madonna was going to make her wedding the performance of the century. “I'm getting married for the first time. hopefully the last time. – she confessed in an interview. “I want this to be a celebration that guests will remember for a lifetime.” And so it happened: actor Martin Sheen still remembers his wedding day on August 16, 1985 with a shudder. “It was most like the Vietnam War.”
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Madonna planned to hold the ceremony as modestly as possible, in a small circle. Guests were sent invitations without specifying the location, and the address was communicated by telephone no earlier than a day before the ceremony. “I hope these jackals don’t guess where the wedding is,” Penn said of the journalists. “And then we will get exactly what Madonna dreams of.” “Calm, quiet wedding.”
However, it was difficult not to guess when the bride chatted about it at every opportunity. Soon all journalists were aware that the wedding would take place outdoors at Don Unger's Point Dume estate in Malibu, clearly visible from all sides, on August 16, 1985 at six o'clock in the evening. On this day, Madonna turned twenty-seven, and Sean turned twenty-five the next day.
It even became known that the bride and groom had a fight right before the wedding. She and her managers demanded that they sign a prenuptial agreement, and Penn believed that this was “the death sentence of the marriage” and simply sent “this gang of pompous idiots blaming me for it.” that I’ll take her money” to hell. “It was so idiotic that I just went crazy. Penn recalled. “All these people were on the phone all day long to make sure I wouldn’t get a penny of her money if my own career didn’t work out.” Vile idiots! He never signed the papers.
A few hours before the wedding, security combed the area for paparazzi just in case. however, there was no need to look for them: reporters from all Los Angeles newspapers gathered in front of the ceremony site and tried by hook or by crook to get inside. They bribed staff and rented surrounding houses for exorbitant amounts of money in order to be able to take at least a photo. And finally they delivered an unexpected air strike - helicopters hovered over the estate, so low that the wind from the rotor blades ruined the guests' hairstyles.
When there were eight “turntables”, Penn’s patience ran out: he disappeared into the house to return back with a gun. As if scalded, he began to run around the site and, shouting “Welcome to the remake of Apocalypse Now,” began firing into the air, not hiding his intentions to hit the raiders. “I would be happy if at least one of these damn helicopters caught fire and the bodies of the filthy journalists were charred. - Penn stated later. - These are not people. I've never shot a living thing in my life." “Then I realized,” Madonna recalled several years later, “that my life would never be the same again.”
The press then frolicked for a long time, describing. the plunging neckline of Madonna's wedding dress, Penn's $695 double-breasted suit, the clumsily knotted tie, the shaving cuts on his face and the frantic attempts to pull the garter off the bride's thigh. Madonna and Penn themselves called the wedding a “circus.” The press, relatives and guests agreed that this circus was organized by Madonna’s own hands. “What she is definitely talented at is the ability to make a real promo for herself,” said her brother Martin Ciccone.
After the wedding, the newlyweds went to a villa in Malibu. The paparazzi continued to follow them, joyfully documenting the life of the star family. “I hate these people. I hate all of you! – Peni did not hold back in conversations with the press. Madonna, on the contrary, was flattered by the close attention: “You always need to be prepared for an invasion of your privacy,” she said. “But I draw the line when I enter my home.” People crowd at the entrance to our estate. They keep calling us on the phone. They want to see us. They think we'll invite them over for a cup of tea or something."
The battlefield with the press moved to Shanghai, where the Penns went to shoot a new film. Sean had long been hatching plans for a film in which he wanted to star with his wife. Besides, it would be good for her: after all, he was already a movie star, and she was just about to become one. He came across the script for the film Shanghai Surprise, which was produced by HandMade Films, the studio of former Beatles member George Harrison.
The script was terrible, so the first thing the Penns did was revise it. Then we flew to Asia. Sean Penn did not immediately understand that the project he had gotten involved in was obviously disastrous, but he immediately outlined his relationship with the local press: he set the goal of hiding from their attention and at the same time protecting his wife. The results of the star couple's stay in Shanghai were clashes with photographers, a quarrel with the film crew and, as a result, an unsuccessful film, which was completely rejected by the public and grossed only 2.2 million dollars at the box office against a budget of 17 million.
“Shanghai Surprise” not only did not make Madonna a movie star, but, on the contrary, confirmed her inability to be a good actress. Moreover, it was the most unsuccessful film of Penn's career. “It seems that the director didn’t even understand what he was doing,” Madonna justified herself. – We were on a ship without a captain. I'm sure you all noticed this."
Penn admitted that many times during filming he suggested “not to film such crap,” but his wife’s enthusiasm and desire to make her an actress forced him to continue working. “Besides, I was constantly tipsy and doing completely different things. The only time I remembered the film was when they brought me my check." - he said. “We chose the wrong script, the wrong director (Jim Shddard) and the wrong stars.” - said George Harrison, who produced the film. When asked about the Penn family, he waved his hand: “Better not ask!”
Returning to the USA. the couple appeared together at the premiere of the film Point Blank starring Penn. Madonna, who wrote and performed the song Live To Tell for the film, joyfully posed for photographers, and Sean became more and more enraged. “The biggest disappointment for me was her passion for publicity and self-promotion,” he later admitted. -I couldn’t see it right away and got a literally “Shanghai” surprise.
I get it. once we started living together, but when it comes to the heart, it is not so easy to free yourself from attachments. And you don't know how long it will last. Anything can pass. Life can neutralize itself.” Penn did not know that his wife’s press agents called the newspapers at her request and planted information leads. “When it came to Sean getting physical with reporters.
Madonna was simply furious. Penn's friend Todd Barash recalls. “I was with them the day after Sean beat the reporter,” he could not calm down, remembering this incident again and again. More than once, Madonna herself persuaded her husband to pose. “We are celebrities. - she said. “People want to see our photos.” This sent Penn into his favorite state of rage: “Don’t you care that these parasites are invading our lives?”
Rarely avoiding conflicts with her husband, Madonna immediately rushed to defend herself: “I worked like an ox to become who I am now, so that people would be interested in me. Deal with it or get out!” Sean said angrily that one day she would really have to choose. "Either them or me."
Often these conversations ended in fights, especially when jealousy intervened in family relationships. Penn always felt that Madonna would not be faithful to him. “She is indomitable. – he admitted. “I don’t think any man can curb her.” A real turning point in their relationship occurred after Sean learned about Madonna's long-standing affair with singer Prince. Then Penn smashed through the wall with his fist, broke furniture and was about to take on his wife if she had not escaped from the house in time. “That was the first time I saw his demon.” - she said.
However, when the fear passed. Madonna admitted the pleasure she gets from her husband's furious jealousy. “How he loves me, since he punches through walls with his fist!” - she admired and called Prince, asking him to send a mechanic to repair the wall - “because it’s all because of you.”
Frequently, in a rage, Sean beat his wife's acquaintances. This is how Madonna's friend David Wolinsky came under attack. accidentally met her in a restaurant and thoughtlessly kissed her on the cheek. Sean attacked Wolinski - he knocked him down and began kicking him. “He was always a hothead,” Wolinsky recalls. “I didn’t do anything, I just said hello to his wife, whom I knew long before she married him.” I didn't mean to provoke him. I still don’t understand what she saw in this bastard.”
Talks of divorce first surfaced in their relationship in December 1987, when Sean disappeared from home for several days. In those days, Madonna admitted to her friends that their marriage was over and that she began to hate her husband. “I'm ashamed of that. what our family has become,” Madonna told her friends, but she herself added fuel to the fire.
Then John F. Kennedy Jr. appeared in her life. Remembering how his father was fond of Marilyn Monroe, he became interested in Madonna. They met in New York in the same December 1987. After their first date, Kennedy gave Madonna the keys to his apartment and they began dating. Sean Penn, in a deranged state, learned the details of his wife’s infidelity from society columns.
They were reconciled by a call from Madonna, who was diagnosed with a tumor in her breast during a medical examination. Frightened, she dialed her husband's number. “Sean was shocked when he found out about the tumor,” recalls Penn’s friend, actor Stephen Sterning. “He said she definitely needed to go to the doctor and get a biopsy. She burst into tears and began to say that she was afraid and did not know what to do.
He invited her to go with her. Madonna had a biopsy. A few days later the result came. Fortunately, it turned out to be negative. She didn't have anything serious." Sean himself said: “Nothing sobers up a man more than realizing that his wife may have cancer. I realized that I had to take my life, Madonna, and our marriage more seriously.”
However, Madonna had no plans to return to Sean. The romance with Kennedy Jr. developed rapidly. John admitted to his friends that she became a real obsession for him. John's mother. Jackie Kennedy feared for her son. She was not so much embarrassed by Madonna's reputation as by the aggressiveness of her husband Sean Penn. “Mom, I can handle this little bastard even if my hands are tied.” - John said. But his relationship with Madonna clearly lacked his courage. Madonna always liked powerful men, and Kennedy Jr. was too soft and dependent on his mother.
Only the filming of the film “Victims of War” in Thailand was able to distract Sean from family troubles. Upon his return, he plunged headlong into a new scandal involving his wife. Madonna suddenly declared herself a lesbian and began appearing everywhere with Sandra Bernhard. Even at the premiere of the play “Trouble” with the participation of her husband, she came with a friend. “If this is my evening, then why did you bring her with you?” – Sean, who couldn’t stand Sandra, was furious. He blamed his wife for that. that she deliberately incites him to rash actions that only draw attention to their family. Many believe that she continued to stick with Penn because she still did not give up hopes of becoming a good film actress.
Experiencing serious problems with alcohol, Penn did nothing to save his family. On the contrary, he behaved more and more unpredictably and drank a lot. He was rowdy and often took up arms. Wandered around the villa and shot birds and mice. Sean set up a shooting range in the basement of the house, where he practiced daily. They say that he shot either at images of his wife or at photographs of her friends and lovers.
Thus he riddled Prince, John Kennedy, and John Benitez. Soon among them was actor Warren Witty, who in the fall of 1988 offered Madonna the role of a fatal beauty in the film “DickTracy.” Since Madonna was unlikely to impress Vitti with her film work, it was obvious that he was interested in her as a woman.
Madonna tried to persuade Sean to seek treatment for alcoholism. They even went to the clinic, where they registered under fictitious names, but then abandoned this idea, afraid of the press. The couple returned home.
In 1988, they thought that their marriage would be saved by having a child together. But Sandra Bernhard convinced Madonna not to involve a child in this ongoing family hell. The singer succumbed to her friend’s persuasion and, after another quarrel, asked Sean to leave. He moved in with his father. Over the phone, Madonna asked for a divorce.
On December 28, 1988, Sean decided to talk to her face to face. Subsequently, his actions will be called illegal entry, which is not entirely true: according to Madonna herself, she let Sean into the house voluntarily. Yes. he was drunk, but she had seen him drunk before. “I don't believe Sean came to hurt Madonna. – recalled his friend Charlie Sheen. myself. however, more than once noticed in assault. “He just wanted to discuss their future lives.” And then something went wrong.”
About. What exactly “went wrong” and at what point the family quarrel turned into crime material, neither Madonna nor Penn have ever said. Strictly speaking, no one except these two still knows what happened that December night at the villa in Mali-bu. Subsequently, these events were overgrown with the most incredible rumors: Sean allegedly tortured Madonna for two days. subjected to physical and mental violence.
“I’ll bury what’s left of you in a matchbox.” - he seemed to say. holding a gun to his wife's head. And then he left for whiskey, leaving Madonna tied to a chair for two long days. With particular pleasure, women's magazines described how Madonna laughed in the face of her tormentor.
In fact, everything was somewhat different. There was no question of two days; Sean spent several hours in the house. But. judging by the way Madonna appeared at the Malibu police station. it was a terrible watch. “Her lips were split, her face was swollen from crying and resembled minced meat. - Lieutenant Bill McSweeney recalled. “She looked like a typical victim of domestic violence from a “colored area.” EJ Malibu you don't see this very often. Until she introduced herself, I had no idea that this was a world-famous singer.”
The police reacted with lightning speed: they arrived at Madonna's house and demanded that Sean Penney go outside with his hands up. “We were prepared for shooting, armed resistance - Mrs. Penn reported that her husband had a weapon. - said Bill McSweeney. “But everything went surprisingly calmly.” Penn surrendered quickly and voluntarily to authorities."
Sean himself claimed that there was a misunderstanding, and did not hold any grudges against the police: “The guys were just doing their job, and they did it damn well.” At the police station, he said that he and Madonna had a normal family quarrel.
That same night, Madonna called her brother Christopher and asked him to urgently find a home for her. “She was so scared that she didn’t even want to go back to get her things. - he recalled. - All. what Madonna wanted. “Get away from Sean as quickly as possible.”
The divorce papers had been ready for a long time - Madonna's lawyers, more perspicacious than herself, were just waiting for the go-ahead. To their surprise. Madonna did not challenge Sean's rights to half of his 70 million fortune: “According to Californian laws, he can take half.” And she forbade me to even think about it. to put the violent husband behind bars. Sean Penn never understood why Madonna withdrew her statement from the police station and recanted her testimony:
“I was a complete bastard, punishment would be well deserved.” Many suspected a deal behind this noble gesture: they say. Madonna did not pursue Penn in exchange for renouncing financial claims. “I wouldn't take a dime from her! Penn denied. “I’d rather die of hunger than take that.” what was earned through the labor of others.” Shownu's death by starvation. however, she did not threaten: at the time of the divorce he had about five million of his own money.
“May God keep Sean, but away from me,” was Madonna’s epitaph for her first marriage. When popular TV host David Letterman asked her directly a few years later. Does she still love her ex-husband? Madonna replied: “He was the most intelligent, subtle and talented man in my life.
I regret not having a child with him. We could have a new John Barrymore...” To all questions about his marriage to Madonna, Sean Penn then answered: “Yes, I remember almost nothing, because I was always drunk.” But one day he said that Madonna always wanted more from him than he could give: “Sometimes it seemed to me that it was not enough for her to be my wife. She wanted my soul." But much more than Sean's soul. Madonna wanted his acting talent.
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British director Guy Ritchie and American singer Madonna, who were legally married for eight years, divorced at the end of 2008, and since then each of them has been trying to rebuild their personal lives. And if everything became more or less clear with the singer of pop hits last spring, when she started an affair with fashion model Jesus Luz, then her ex-husband still cannot decide on the choice of a new life friend and changes girls with incredible speed. It turns out that Richie himself doesn’t know what he wants?
Immediately after his divorce from Madonna, the director of Snatch never tired of saying in his numerous interviews that he still loves his ex-wife and cannot imagine life without her. No wonder, because it was Madonna who was actually in charge of her husband’s daily routine - she determined when he had dinner and when he went to bed, and, apparently, that’s why in the first weeks after the breakup Richie felt somewhat confused.
And yet, the filmmaker began to come to his senses literally a month after the divorce. Shortly before the New Year, the director was seen with millionaire Jemima Khan (the same woman who was Hugh Grant's friend). But the matter did not progress beyond rumors, since Guy and Jemima limited themselves to only having dinner together in a restaurant.
A few weeks later, information emerged that Richie had begun dating the executive producer of his film RocknRolla, Laura Meek. The couple, however, dismissed all speculation about a romance that broke out between them.
Then there was a temporary lull, and it seemed to many that Mr. Richie was really sad without Madonna - he did not appear at social events and did not give reasons to call himself a ladies' man. True, it turned out that the director’s apathy was temporary.
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In March 2009, Richie was caught in the company of Australian top model Elle Macpherson. The couple spent the evening together in a restaurant and then walked through the streets of Notting Hill. Despite the fact that hugs and kisses, traditional for a budding romance, were not observed, society chroniclers recorded Richie and MacPherson among the ranks of lovers.
The reason for this was on the faces of the director and model.
But dinner with MacPherson also turned out to be a one-time event, and soon Richie went to the USA to visit the kids and at the same time have fun with a certain brunette on the beach in Los Angeles. The journalists were unable to find out anything about the identity of this girl, but everyone agreed that the director had fully recovered from the shock associated with the divorce and forced separation from his children.
And yet, soon Richie took a break again and went into the shadows - he began working on his “Sherlock Holmes”. But a few months after the premiere of the film, Richie returned to the search for a new lover and made people talk about himself as a real playboy.
Apparently, the filmmaker decided to keep up with his ex-wife, who had an affair with a 22-year-old Brazilian model, and switched to young models. In the second half of April, the director began filming an advertisement for perfumes from the Christian Dior fashion house and while working he met 21-year-old model from Slovakia Mikaela Kosyanova.
The model herself told reporters that Richie, who once bore the offensive nickname Mr. Madonna, fell head over heels in love with her and now wants to offer her a role in one of his future films. “He really likes the unusual shape of my nose, which is why he fell in love with me. When we were working on the set, he literally didn’t take his eyes off me and said that I was very talented,” Kosyanova, who specializes in lingerie advertising, reported the details of her acquaintance with Richie.
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The director, however, did not comment on his relationship with the young Slovak beauty, with whom he had already visited London pubs. Eyewitnesses of the date claim that the couple looked very pleased - the director and his new girlfriend chatted pleasantly and moved around the spring city, holding hands. At the end of the romantic evening, Richie and Kosyanova got into the car and drove off in an unknown direction.
However, the story of the filmmaker’s adventures does not end there. Just a few days after his date with the Slovak model, Richie went for a walk with another beauty. This time, 41-year-old Guy was spotted in the company of 28-year-old Jackie Ainslie.
Richie's new girlfriend is also a representative of the modeling business and is known, for example, for participating in advertising for Samsung, Sunsilk, Virgin Atlantic and Tia Lusso. In addition, Ainslie, a native of Essex, also has a role in the production of the game Heavy Rain. The model's appearance and voice were used to create the image of one of the main characters of the thriller named Madison Page.
But the main topic of discussion was Ainsley’s appearance. The point is that there is one more
Richie's new girlfriend is very similar to the director's ex-wife Madonna (by the way, in Heavy Rain the heroine Jackie wears a short dark hairstyle, which makes her look like Madonna from the late 1980s). Naturally, society columnists immediately drew attention to this and quipped: they say, if not Madonna, then at least a girl similar to her could please Guy Ritchie.
Well, probably, the British director can either put up with the bullying of the tabloids, or take some other model on a date. Moreover, he has experience.
