Madonna Loving The Attention

I have NO doubt that Madonna is loving every minute of the attention this A-Rod scandal is generating. With her new CD, upcoming tour, and 50th birthday on the horizon...are you kidding me? Let us not forget that Madonna is The Original. Scandal, intense media playing, he said/she said, she said/she said....Madonna helped invent "the game" that's played today and now she's in the thick of it again. She must feel rejuvinated. She hasn't had this kind of attention since she had kids!

MADONNA is "loving" the attention she's getting from the Alex Rodriguez scandal, friends said - and as of Sunday, she was planning on ramping up the rumors by cheering on her close friend during today's All-Star game at Yankee Stadium.

"She, [manager] Guy Oseary and some friends have tickets and are planning on going," said a spy. "She doesn't care about the press it will get - she loves it. It just gets her more publicity for her upcoming Sticky and Sweet tour."

Madonna and hubby Guy Ritchie have been acting like a very strong couple ever since news broke that not only was A-Rod's wife, Cynthia, divorcing him, but that she claims he'd had an "affair of the heart" with the singer. Madonna, who has been actively trying to get A-Rod into kabbalah, denies any affairs with the slugger.

"Cynthia's claims don't bother Guy," said a pal of the couple. "He and Madonna have an unconventional marriage and are fine with it. He is obsessed with his work and so is she. They are not planning on divorcing."

Ritchie just signed Robert Downey Jr. to his next movie about Sherlock Holmes, and is said to be in LA now with the actor.

But while Madonna can blow off the bad C-Rod press, she is not pleased with the press that her brother, Christopher Ciccone, and his book, "Life With My Sister Madonna," are generating.

Madge is said to be furious with Ciccone, who describes his sister as a petty, mean pennypincher who stiffed him out of tens of thousands of dollars.

A source told Jossip that although Ciccone was on "Good Morning America," his interviews with "The Insider" and "Entertainment Tonight" were canceled after Madonna's rep, Liz Rosenberg, made calls implying that if Ciccone appeared on the shows, they'd lose access to Madonna. A rep for the shows said, "That's not us."

(Source: Page Six)