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Guy Ritchie was forced to call police after discovering an intruder in his $9 million home

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Jun 012010

Guy Ritchie’s staff disturbed an intruder at his country mansion yesterday morning.

The 41-year-old film director called police after the man was found wandering through his $9 million property near Salisbury, Wiltshire, South West England, believed to be looking to steal movie memorabilia.

A source told The Sun newspaper: “This man was found wandering about. It was thought he was after anything he might be able to sell. It was a terrifying experience.”

The 29-year-old intruder – who is thought to be Polish – is now in custody. It is not known if he will be charged with any offence.

Ritchie – who made his name directing British gangster films ‘Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels’ and ‘Snatch’ – recently announced plans to launch a music label.

He revealed he will be funding Punchbowl Records in a bid to give The Punchbowl Band – who regularly play at his London pub – a boost.

The filmmaker said: “It’s exciting to venture into the music industry.

“It’s a tough place but I’ve seen this band connect with people. They have every chance of being embraced by a wider audience.”

Guy Ritchie purchased 2 adjoining mansions in London for $9 million

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May 022010

Filmmaker Guy Ritchie has purchased two adjoining mansions in London and has reportedly begun construction to combine them into one super property.

The director, who reportedly walked away with $75 million from his 2008 divorce from Madonna, is said to have paid just over $9 million for the two houses in the British capital’s Fitzrovia area.

And he’s already started work to transform the two homes into one massive mansion, which will contain at least eight bedrooms, according to Britain’s Daily Mail.

A neighbour tells the newspaper, “Guy will need to spend a fortune converting the houses, which have been empty for three years. But when the work is finished it will be one of the most elegant homes in London.”

Another source adds, “An architect has been hired to redesign the whole house. As well as all the space upstairs, there is a massive basement which would be perfect for a film screening room.”

GUY RITCHIE LAUNCHES MUSIC LABEL

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Jan 112010

Director Guy Ritchie is following his ex-wife Madonna into the music industry – by launching his own record company.

The Sherlock Holmes director has launched Punchbowl Recordings, named after his London pub The Punch Bowl, signing the venue’s house band as his first act to get a record deal.

The Punchbowl Band has already been booked for private gigs by actor Robert Downey Jr. and Stella McCartney.

Ritchie says, “It’s exciting to venture into the music industry. It’s a tough place but I’ve seen this band connect with people. They have every chance of being embraced by a wider audience.”

Ritchie’s Irish rockers’ debut album, Journey, is due out on March 1, 2010.

Guy Ritchie on Madonna: “She’s Retarded”

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Oct 072009

Guy Ritchie can’t make up his mind how he feels about his ex-wife, Madonna.

On the one hand, the film director said in the November issue of Esquire magazine, “I still love her.”

On the other, he added, “but she’s retarded too.”

Maybe he meant the latter comment as a reference to her exaggerated youth.

“She’s a manifester, if there ever was one,” he said. “Madonna makes things happen. Put Madonna up against any 23 year old, she’ll outwork them, outdance them, outperform them. The woman is broad.”

Ritchie, 41, who split with the 51-year-old pop icon last December, shares custody of their sons, Rocco, 9, and David Banda, 4.

But clearly, the collapse of the couple’s 8-year marriage has deeply affected the “Sherlock Holmes” director.

“You can’t tell someone when they’re getting divorced that their pain is an illusion,” he says. “”I’m f***ing telling you, I feel it. I’ve been through that… No one can say you don’t feel that.”

Madonna — who is currently seeing 23-year-old Brazilian model Jesus Luz — has also been wounded by the split.

Asked by David Letterman on the “Late Show” last week if she’d ever wed again, the singer replied, “I think I’d rather get run over by a train.”

More, she referred to her marriage to Ritchie as “the Bush years.”

“It was a good time to be out of America,” she quipped.

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Madonna who? Guy Ritchie moves on with a new young girlfriend, actress Mellany Gandara

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Aug 132009

Guy Ritchie has a message for his cradle-robbing ex Madonna: Two can play at that game.

The Material Girl’s former hubby has been spotted three times in the last few months with a new lady love, Mellany Gandara, who is 14 years his junior.

According to the Daily Mail, 26-year-old Gandarra appeared in a walk-on role in the film “Iron Man,” alongside Ritchie’s pal Robert Downey Jr.

It was Downey Jr. who introduced the 40-year-old director and the Haitian beauty.

The actress spent last week with Ritchie in London.

During her stay, they stopped by his pub, The Punch Bowl, to throw a few back with some of Ritchie’s friends.

One source told Britain’s Sunday Mirror, “She looked very at ease in his company.”

That night the happy couple returned to Ritchie’s place, where Gandarra stayed until the next morning.

Add that to their lovey-dovey walk on a Malibu beach and their romantic dinner date in June, and Ritchie’s ex, Madonna, might have reason to be jealous.

That is, if she hadn’t already moved on with 22-year-old Jesus Luz.

On Monday, Gandarra was spotted at a casting call in Los Angeles, but if all goes well with her director beau, there may be more than just walk-on parts in store for her.

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Gay Sherlock Holmes Could Backfire for Guy Ritchie

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Aug 042009

Guy Ritchie’s plan to put a gay spin on the relationship of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in his new movie about the detective and his sidekick could backfire.

Robert Downey Jr., who plays Holmes, has revealed the crimebuster will sleep with and have sweaty grappling scenes with Watson, played by Jude Law, in “Sherlock Holmes,” due out Christmas Day.

“We’re two men who happen to be roommates, wrestle a lot and share a bed. It’s bad-ass,” Downey told Britain’s News of the World. Added much-in-the-news Law: “Guy wanted to make this about the relationship between Watson and Holmes. They’re both mean and complicated.”

But Michael Medved, a former Post movie critic, says Downey and Law must be joking. “There’s not a seething, bubbling hunger to see straight stars impersonating homosexuals,” Medved told us. “I think they’re just trying to generate controversy . . . They know that making Holmes and Watson homosexual will take away two-thirds of their box office. Who is going to want to see Downey Jr. and Law make out? I don’t think it would be appealing to women. Straight men don’t want to see it.”

Roger Johnson, editor of the Sherlock Holmes Journal, observed that in Arthur Conan Doyle’s original stories, “Watson is something of a ladies’ man, but a faithful husband to his wife. And Holmes is essentially asexual, with no erotic interest in women or men.”

Still, some fans welcome the jolt. Manhattan thriller writer Jason Starr, whose book “Panic Attack” hits stores this week, said: “This sounds like exactly the type of updating the series needs to attract a new generation. Playing up the homoerotic undercurrents in ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley’ worked rather well. If Conan Doyle was writing today, he would have been much more provocative with the characters.”

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Guy Ritchie has already moved on!

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Oct 222008

If you believe Us Weekly, Madonna’s soon-to-be ex has taken up with British actress Kelly Reilly , who’s in his “Sherlock Holmes” (filming now with Robert Downey Jr. as Sherlock). Ritchie demanded a divorce earlier this month after Page Six reported Madge and Alex Rodriguez had dinner at Dos Caminos on Third Avenue. The new kabbalah couple are so tight, the Yankee slugger has registered his car and given a photo to managers of Madonna’s Central Park West building, so he can visit at will.

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