Celebrity divorce smackdown

The Ritchies: Guy and Madonna

By Tara Tyson, Special to Metromix

If marriage is meant to be an equal partnership, then divorce is the ultimate competition, where lovers become enemies, assets become liabilities and in the case of celebrities, dirty secrets become dinner table discussion. We’ve gathered a collection of some of our favorite famous Splitsville residents and made the tough call that even divorce court judges dare not decree: who’s better off?

First off: With three kids, gazillions of pounds and dollars, and even a movie re-make (2002’s “Swept Away”) between them, there seems to be plenty of dividable stuff to keep these two former lovebirds content in the post-divorce era of their marriage. Of course, it wasn’t enough to make them satisfied in the marriage era of their marriage, so who knows?

Better off? Madonna. The woman burned crosses in the name of pop music, frenched Britney Spears on live TV and made a coffee table book of her privates. It’s going to take more than a little divorce to slow her down.