London: US pop star Madonna and husband Guy Ritchie are to be divorced in London on Friday, according to the High Court where so-called "quickie" divorces are formalised.
The case was listed on Thursday under the names Ciccone M L versus Ritchie G S and will be heard before a judge in the High Court's Family Division.
The couple announced last month that they had agreed to finish their eight-year-old marriage, ending intense speculation over the high-profile celebrity relationship. Details of the terms of the split have not been made public.
Madonna, 50, and Ritchie, 40, have a joint fortune estimated to be worth around $525 million, and have several children. The couple have a son, Rocco, who was several months old on their wedding day in December 2000, and in 2006 Madonna applied to adopt David Banda, a boy from Malawi whose mother died shortly after his birth and whose biological father has supported the adoption.
A Malawian court approved the adoption in May. The singer also has a daughter Lourdes, born in 1996, from the pop singer's relationship with fitness trainer Carlos Leon. She was married once before, to actor Sean Penn, in the 1980s.
Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone was born in Bay City, Michigan on Aug. 16, 1958, into a large, devout Italian-Catholic family.
She went on to become one of the most successful singers of all time with estimated album sales of more than 200 million and is in the middle of her Sticky & Sweet world tour.
Ritchie is a British film director who is currently making a major Hollywood blockbuster Sherlock Holmes starring Robert Downey Jr. as the Victorian-era super sleuth.
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