YANKEES STAR ALEX RODRIGUEZ SETTLES DIVORCEYankees slugger Alex Rodriguez and wife Cynthia settled their bitter divorce fight, the New York Daily News reports.
Terms of the settlement were not released.
"Cynthia and Alex Rodriguez have amicably resolved their dissolution of marriage proceedings," the baseball player's lawyer, Alan Kluger, tells the paper.Cynthia, 35, filed for divorce in July, saying her estranged husband – known to fans as A-Rod – "emotionally abandoned" her and their children and had a series of affairs. Her lawyer also said Rodriguez, 33, had an "affair of the heart" with Madonna that was the "last straw."
In Cynthia's filing, she asked to keep their $12 million Coral Gables, Fla., mansion. The mother of his two children, Natasha, 3, and Ella, five months, also wanted a cut of his earnings during their marriage. Rodriguez reportedly made $28 million this season.
But, in A-Rod's response, he argued that the divorce settlement should be determined by their prenup, which Cynthia signed a month before their 2002 wedding.
He admitted the marriage was "irretrievably broken," but noted Florida is a no-fault state for divorce cases and chastised Cynthia for mentioning "immaterial and impertinent" issues like his alleged "extra marital affairs and other marital misconduct."
"They deliberately engaged in a private negotiation," Rodriguez's lawyer tells the Daily News. "This was and remains a personal family matter for both of them."
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