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'Irish Triplet'
MSNBC Washington bureau chief Norah O'Donnell gave birth to a girl on Saturday. At eight pounds and 21 inches, Riley Norah Tracy comes less than 14 months after twins Henry and Grace Tracy. In February, the late NBC Washington bureau chief Tim Russert had congratulated O'Donnell, 34, on being pregnant with an "Irish triplet." O'Donnell married D.C. restaurateur Geoff Tracy, owner of Chef Geoff's and Lia's, in 2001.
Madonna Says She's Still With Guy
After a week of rumors about affairs and breakups, Madonna says she and her husband, Guy Ritchie, are not planning to divorce. Meanwhile, Cynthia Rodriguez reportedly has other ideas about her marriage to New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez.
"My husband and I are not planning on getting a divorce," the singer said in a statement to People magazine. "I am not romantically involved in any way with Alex Rodriguez. I have nothing to do with the state of his marriage or . . . spiritual path."
Web sites of Houston television station KTRK and the Miami Herald reported last night that Cynthia Rodriguez will file for divorce today and quoted her lawyers, who said A-Rod's "relationship with Madonna was the final straw for Mrs. Rodriguez" and "that Alex has emotionally abandoned her and the children and has left her with no choice but to divorce him."
The Rodriguezes announced last week that they were separating after reports circulated linking Cynthia to rock musician Lenny Kravitz. Kravitz has denied an affair.
The Bachelor's Off the Market -- Again
Tire-and-wine fortune heir Andrew Firestone, 32, wed model and actress Ivana Bozilovic, 30, in Santa Barbara, Calif., on Saturday. Firestone, great-grandson of tiremaker Harvey Firestone and son of vintner Brooks Firestone, proposed to Jen Schefft on the third season of ABC's "The Bachelor" in 2003. The couple split less than a year after the show ended. Firestone and Bozilovic announced their engagement last October.
Bozilovic most recently appeared in "The Wedding Crashers" and "National Lampoon's Van Wilder." Firestone works for Beanie Babies creator Ty Warner and is host of a TV reality show in production called "Billionaires Car Club."
Mini Bindi
Since her croc-hunting dad Steve Irwin's fatal encounter with a stingray in 2006, Bindi Irwin, 9, has released an exercise DVD and won a Daytime Emmy for her Discovery Kids channel show "Bindi the Jungle Girl." Now she's available in miniature. In September the Ohio-based, nature-themed toy manufacturer Wild Republic will retail a 10-inch khaki-clad, pigtailed rubber Bindi doll for around $15.
"She's just a very charismatic little girl," Cathy LeDonne, Wild Republic's product development director, told the Cleveland Plain Dealer. The company also sold a Steve Irwin doll shortly after his death.
A taller, talking version of the mini-Bindi reminds children that "you can make the world a better place" and exclaims, "Crikey! Let's go help wildlife." Wild Republic will donate a portion of the profits to "conservation efforts."
White Likes Detroit
Detroit native Jack White has penned a ode to his home town. The poem, "Courageous Dream's Concern," was published by the Detroit Free Press on Sunday.



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