The Post learns that Alex Rodriguez and Cynthia Rodriguez are looking to avoid a public "slugfest" in their divorce proceedings. The source said, "They're going to try and arrive at a settlement so they don't have a very public dispute." Wait, does that mean we won't get any more "details" about A-Rod visiting Madonna to learn about Kabbalah or C-Rod's supposed relationship with Lenny Kravitz? Did they learn something from the Christie Brinkley-Peter Cook divorce......

The breakup of Alex Rodriguez and Cynthia Rodrigeuz's marriage took another nasty turn after she filed for divorce yesterday. The Yankee third baseman's friends told the Daily News that C-Rod spent $100,000 during her trip to Paris. This comes as one of Cynthia Rodriguez's divorce lawyers called A-Rod's much-rumored affair with Madonna "an affair of the heart." Friends for both sides of the couple have been trying to win over the public by leaking......

Maybe Cynthia Rodriguez did need a break. The Post spotted the long-suffering wife of Yankees All-Star Alex Rodriguez in the City of Light "beaming with smiles" and looking good, "wearing black, open-toed, high-heeled shoes, tight-fitting blue jeans and a gray hooded top." However, she was not wearing her engagement or anniversary rings. Cynthia Rodriguez, aka C-Rod, has been staying at friend Lenny Kravitz's $10 million Parisian residence. Kravitz has denied that he is having an......

Cynthia Rodriguez might be the most suffering Yankee baseball wife these days (well, this side of Debbie Clemens). According to the Daily News, C-Rod told her friends Madonna is "using Kabbalah to brainwash Yankee star Alex Rodriguez into believing they are 'soulmates'." A friend told the News Cynthia really believes A-Rod and Madonna are involved; C-Rod apparently said, "I feel like Madonna is using mind control over him. I don't recognize the man he's become.......

First, there was talk that Madonna had engaged a divorce lawyer. Then there were rumors Madonna's potential split with Guy Ritchie was due to an affair with Yankee superstar Alex Rodriguez. Now, things have gotten really crazy with suggestions that A-Rod's wife Cynthia has left him for...Lenny Kravitz! Sources told Perez Hilton A-Rod is not having an affair with the Material Girl but he's actually the one being cheated on. The Rodriguezes' troubles have......

When it came to New Year's Eve countdown broadcasts, we were traditional and stuck with Dick Clark's Rockin' New Year's Eve. Which means we missed out on $275-million man Alex Rodriguez counting down with Carson Daly on Daly's New Year's Eve program. New York sports talk radio was discussing the Yankee's appearance, jokingly calling him "Mr. New York." Well, not only is A-Rod loving NYC these days, he's also being managed by Guy Oseary......

- $36 million in funds have been announced to clean up Bush Terminal Piers in Broolyn - Tangling with jerky smokers and maybe hookers is all part of a day's work for New York Hack - Interesting corner of Park Slope history - Sterling and 7th Avenue - Opie & Anthony may come back to NYC radio to replace David Lee Roth - Hee hee - we cannot get enough of lawsuits against Lenny......

- Cop killer is sentenced to life without parole - New Jersey sues the Bush administration over the port deal; Pataki, get outta bed and work with your legal counsel! - City inspectors busted a slumlord who had racked up 16,696 violations in Queens and the Bronx. - The new Yankee Stadium was approved by the City Planning Commission - According to the Crain's New York poll, 51% of people online-polled would not want......

You may know Vincent Gallo best from his amazing movie Buffalo66, or his excretable movie Brown Bunny, or from his 1980s career as a musician and famous painter, or from leaning against that wall opposite Cafe Havana on Elizabeth Street, staring moodily into space. Now, courtesy of his website, you can take some of that magic and put it where you've always wanted it: in your womb! Funny parts in bold: Price includes all costs......

The big real estate news of the day is that the Duke Semans Mansion, across the street from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and on the market for $50 million, was sold for $40 million (a 20% savings!), and but bigger human interest angle news is that the buyer is a Russian immigrant who used to drive a cab! Tamir Sapir has the most incredible American Dream story ever - or at least this week.......

- One pedestrian killed, another injured, as a car lost control off the Manhattan Bridge over the weekend and a woman was killed this morning by a truck making a turn in Brooklyn - Forgotten NY goes to Corona - Curbed asks how Lenny Kravitz is so "friggin' rich," which totally means they saw that episode of the Gilmore Girls where Lorelei wondered the exact same thing - The NY Sun has a new EMT......

- Newsday reports the Parks Department is considering various ways to kill the dangerous snakehead fish. Hilariously, one of the suggestion is "salting" it (okay, it's just raising the saline level of the lake, but still). - The Yankees fan who fell/jumped onto the net behind home plate is facing charges. Parents everywhere will be saying, "If your friend dared you to jump off the upper deck at Yankee Stadium, would you do it?" But......

Last week I didn't tell you about the show Beck played at Hiro Ballroom Friday night (one night before his appearance on Saturday Night Live). That's because the "secret" show wasn't even announced until Thursday. Beck is known for playing last-minute small-venue shows, and I was lucky enough to score a ticket to this one. Here are the pictures. In February, Beck played another secret show in Los Angeles. The opener was none other than,......

Downtown resident and rocker Lenny Kravitz is being sued for causing over $300,000 of damage to his neighbor's apartment - after Kravitz's toilet was backed up! One of the toilets in Kravitz's 30 Crosby Street duplex became "blocked, clogged, and congested with various materials." Now, the New York Region > Singer Sued After Toilet Overflow" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/23/nyregion/23toilet.html">NY Times and the Daily News do not divulge what was in the toilet, probably because the lawsuit doesn't detail......

A cartoon making fun of the Holocaust that appeared in a Rutgers student newspaper is causing unrest at the school. The Times describes the cartoon as such: The publication, The Medium - a journal of news and opinion that features humor, cultural items and sexual and scatological references - ran a cartoon depicting a bearded man wearing a hat and sitting on the edge of an open kitchen stove in a carnival setting. Under the......

The Post reaffirms that ugly might be the new black, as it lists all the lovely ladies of screen who are involved with rockers. Renée Zellweger is dating the White Stripes' Jack White, Gwyneth Paltrow is dating Chris Martin of Coldplay, Nicole Kidman supposedly canoodles with Lenny Kravitz, Liv Tyler married Royston Langdon of Spacehog, Drew Barrymore is dating Fabrizio Morretti of the Strokes, Kate Hudson is expecting a kid with Chris Robinson, Cameron Diaz......