Ciccone also goes into Madonna's past, saying that her former husband Sean Penn once cornered him with a knife and forced him to be "blood brothers" by slicing their hands and rubbing the wounds together. Ciccone claims Penn later asked "You don't have AIDS, do you?"He also says that Madonna said she was "repeating Marilyn [Monroe] and the president," during her fling with John F. Kennedy, Jr, and that she isn't sure Carlos Leon -- the father of her daughter Lourdes -- "fulfills the intelligence requirement" she had when she was pondering a father figure.'Life With My Sister Madonna,' which hits shelves on July 15, also includes details on how the singer allegedly saved her 7-year-marriage to Guy Ritchie with counseling from a rabbi, her past lesbian flings with women, and her relationship with soon-to-be-divorced Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez, Usmagazine.com reports.According to early looks at the book, Ciccone claims that the main problem between Ritchie and Madonna was their desire to raise their kids in different places. The director preferred London but the singer wanted to move the family to New York.Photo Gallery
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Ciccone also contends that the reason he and Madonna no longer speak is due to her husband. In the biography, Ciccone, who is gay, alleges that his relationship with Madonna went downhill after she married Ritchie because of the director's homophobic tendencies, a Chicago Sun Times columnist writes.Furthermore, an anecdote reveals that the 'Material Girl' once kissed her close friend Gwyneth Paltrow, while the two were partying at a club.Griffin claims first iPhone-ready iTrip
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