Alex Rodriguez Responds to Wife's Divorce Filing

People - 31st Jul 2008

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Alex Rodriguez: After nearly four weeks of silence, New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez stepped up to the plate Thursday and responded to his wife's demand for divorce.

In the documents – expected to be filed Thursday morning – A-Rod admits the marriage is "irretrievably broken." But he points out that Florida is a "no fault state" and chastises his estranged wife, Cynthia Rodriguez, for mentioning "immaterial and impertinent" issues like his alleged "extra marital affairs and other marital misconduct."

Although Madonna was not mentioned in Cynthia's court documents – filed July 7 – her attorney called the Yankee's association with the singer an "affair of the heart" and "the last straw."

In Cynthia's filing – which claimed "emotional abandonment" – she asked to keep their $12 million Coral Gables mansion. The mother of his two children, Natasha, 3, and Ella, three months, also wants a cut of his earnings during their marriage.

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