Madonnar appeared in Manhattan Supreme Court on Wednesday morning, telling a judge that her son had informed her that he would prefer to stay in the UK with his film-director dad. The 57-year-old pop diva, who is currently in the middle of her Rebel Heart world tour, asked Justice Deborah Kaplan to force her ex-husband to send their 15-year-old son, Rocco, to New York.
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| Happy memories: Madonna and Guy Ritchie with their son Rocco on December 21, 2000 |
An attorney representing Mr Ritchie responded that the teen 'has expressed very clearly that he does not want to return to New York'. When asked by the judge whether Ritchie, 47, has prevented his son from returning to the US, the filmmaker's lawyer, Eric Buckley, reportedly replied: 'Effectively yes.' Kaplan ruled that Rocco Ritchie must return to New York and talk to his mother before deciding which parent he prefers.
The 15-year-old will be represented in the custody case by his own court-appointed attorney, Justice Kaplan decreed. ‘I’m directing the child to be returned to New York,’ Kaplan told the singer, who showed up in court in a black cape. ‘If he wants to stay with his father, he must return to his mother.
Madonna and Ritchie began dating in 1998 and the pop star gave birth to Rocco two years later on August 11, 2000. It was the first child for Ritchie and the second for Madonna, who had a daughter Lourdes from a previous relationship with actor Carlos Leon. Four months after Rocco's birth the couple was married on December 22 at Skibo Castle in Dornach, Scotland. Rocco was christened the day before the wedding at Dornoch Cathedral in front of guests including his godparents Sting and Trudie Styler.
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