LONDON — Christopher Ciccone says his sister's marriage to Guy Ritchie is perhaps being held together by Kabbalah.
"Their life together is sometimes difficult," Ciccone writes in Life With My Sister Madonna, an excerpt of which was published in the U.K.'s The Mail on Sunday. "A Kabbalah rabbi would regularly come down from London to mediate between them. This does not surprise me. I believe that Kabbalah is helping keep Guy and Madonna together."
The couple's marriage has been rumored to be in trouble for some time, with Madonna's recent link to baseball star Alex Rodriguez adding further fuel to the fire. Even before the A-Rod rumor exploded, Ciccone said he was uncertain about the couple's future together.
"I worry about my sister," Ciccone says. "At 39, Guy is ten years her junior and she has given him latitude to pursue his own interests. But they are very different people with different approaches to things, and I wonder whether they will be able to bridge the divide."
Ciccone also sheds light on a New Year's Eve party in which he and Ritchie almost came to blows. It's also the same evening that Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow allegedly locked lips.
"I pull Gwyneth on to the dance floor," he writes. "Madonna is dancing on the table. Gwyneth joins her and they dance together. In the middle of the dance, Madonna grabs Gwyneth and kisses her full on the mouth. It's that sort of a night."
Ciccone speaks often of his rift with Ritchie and the ensuing falling out with his sister that happened as a result of their marriage.
"Guy's pride in his own heterosexuality swells noticeably when he's in the presence of a gay man like me," he says. "And in his wedding week, with these after-dinner toasts seemingly aimed at underscoring his overt masculinity, he is in his element."
Other notable excerpts include the "Material Girl" reportedly losing her virginity to a "guy named Russell," that Madonna called her ex-husband Sean Penn a "paranoid control freak," and that Madonna's ex-lover Warren Beatty once quizzed Ciccone on what it's like to be gay.
Ciccone's book is slated to bookshelves right before Madonna's "Sticky and Sweet" concert tour kicks off in October.
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