Jesus took the break-up badly.
He was just as worried about how Madonna would cope without him, he told friends, as he was hurt by her decision to finish with him.How was she going to manage? And what had he done wrong, he wailed? He’d been available to her 24 hours a day.
Of course, that was exactly what he’d done wrong. Madonna has always preferred strong men like Guy Ritchie, even if she can’t live with them.
‘When it was over,’ said Anne Wilder, ‘Jesus told me he had to look in the mirror and try to remember who he’d been before she was in his life.
‘He was so used to being Madonna’s guy, he didn’t even know who he was any more.’
With Jesus officially banished, it didn’t take long before Madonna found her next toy-boy — a 23-year-old French dancer called Brahim Zaibat. He was 29 years her junior.
A devout Muslim, he’d been hired to dance at the launch of a Madonna fashion collection at Macy’s department store in New York.
By the time the tour wound to an end in December 2012, she was no longer in any mood to have sex.
Somehow, Madonna’s relationship with him limped on through most of 2013.
Their break-up, when it came, was explosive and acrimonious, although details are scarce. All that’s known is that it is best never to mention Brahim to Madonna — unless you want something thrown at you.
Barely a month after finishing with Brahim, she hooked up with Timor Steffens, a 26-year-old Dutch choreographer and dancer — eight months later, she ordered him to pack his bags and leave.
In 2016, she started seeing Aboubakar Soumahoro, a 25-year-old model. Unlike Jesus and Brahim, he remained on the margins of her life — which was exactly where she wanted him.
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