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Madonna goes it alone for baby No 4

The star's using her latest adoption plan to push hubby Guy away for good

Madonna cradles adopted son David Banda

Madonna’s pressing ahead with plans to adopt a baby girl.

The fact that she’s ignoring Guy Ritchie’s opposition to such a move also suggests that there’s no question of salvaging her marriage.

Now 50, the Queen Of Pop has long craved a baby sister for David Banda, 2, whose lengthy adoption process was completed in May. Despite denials from her people, she’s found a child: Mercy James, three, who’s been in an orphanage since her mother died in childbirth.

Guy, 39, recently admitted that he was ‘surprised’ to feel as much love for David as he does for his biological son Rocco, eight. Even so, he’s firmly against adopting again because of all the controversy and legal wrangling that was stirred up the first time round, which he found humiliating.

But it seems Madge is determined to show her husband who's boss.

So why is she so determined to adopt a second time? There’s a lot of truth in her brother Christopher Ciccone’s assertion that she’s ‘in competition with Angelina Jolie’.

A source tells Now: ‘She wants to prove that she can turn her hand to anything – adopting, directing, acting, singing – because she’s Madonna.’

See the full story in Now dated 25 August 2008 - out now!