Judge calls on Madonna to end son spat
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A JUDGE at England’s High Court yesterday pleaded with US pop megastar Madonna and her British film director ex-husband to resolve a legal dispute over their son Rocco amicably.
Alistair MacDonald said it would be a “very great tragedy” if any more of the 15-year-old’s childhood was lost in the spat between Madonna and Guy Ritchie over where he should live.
Judges have heard that Rocco had remained in London with his father after a visit in early December. Madonna wants the teenager to return to live with her in New York state.
MacDonald made his plea for peace after ruling that the proceedings in the English courts could be halted. Litigation is also under way in New York.
“At the root of these proceedings... is a temporary breakdown in trust,” the judge said. “I renew, one final time, my plea for the parents to seek, and to find, an amicable resolution to the dispute between them.
“The boy very quickly becomes the man. It would be a very great tragedy for Rocco if any more of the precious and fast receding days of his childhood were to be taken up by this dispute.”
Madonna and Ritchie split in 2008 after eight years of marriage.
MacDonald said they had agreed that Rocco would live in the United States with Madonna but spend time with Ritchie, an agreement approved by a family court judge.
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