If you look at old photos of Guy Ritchie out with Madonna, you can kind of tell that things went sour for them quite a while ago. Guy had this kind of pained look on his face like he’s enduring the outing as best as he can. This isn’t always true, and he sometimes looked happy after a few drinks, but compared to photos taken of him without Madonna you can tell he was more carefree, like a nagging weight was taken off his shoulders. This was definitely the case when Ritchie was seen out partying with Jude Law and Robert Downey, Jr. in London last night, and maybe he feels that way all the time now that the divorce is finally underway.

The trio was seen out at the White Cube Gallery last night in London, where they attended an opening for contemporary artist Sam Taylor Wood. They’re currently working on the film Sherlock Holmes together, which is filming in the city and is directed by Ritchie. Law is sporting the new mustache for his role as Dr. Watson. Ritchie is rumored to be having a relationship with Kelly Reilly, an actress in the film. It’s not the only rumored fling for Ritchie. According to the National Enquirer, his estranged wife Madonna accused him of cheating on her with an ex girlfriend he was seen out to lunch with. This was before the two announced their impending divorce but after Madonna was publicly linked to Alex Rodriguez. She may have been projecting her guilt onto Ritchie, according to this report, by accusing him of the very thing she was guilty of:

Madonna pulled the plug on the marriage because she believes Ritchie is [a] skirt chaser.

“She says he chases women – stagehands, publicists, you name it – whoever’s involved in his movies, business dealings or just happened to be there.”

Adding fuel to the fire, Ritchie’s been seen out with gorgeous blonde Tania Strecker, a 35-year-old TV host. The two were recently spotted at a London restaurant having lunch.

The strong-willed entertainer was furious when she found out, and just weeks ago had a screaming match in New York with Guy over his relationship with Strecker, divulged an insider.

That’s when she accused her director-husband of cheating and reportedly added: “I just don’t trust you anymore!”

Disclosed the insider: “Madonna is convinced it was a lot more than just lunch – and there were a lot more women than Tanie.

“She believes the worst about Tania, who infuriated her when she let slip Guy was still seeing her not long after he started dating Madonna.”

But pals of 40-year-old Ritchie insist there’s nothing to Madonna’s fears.

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, November 3, 2008]

The Enquirer goes on to quote Ritchie’s friend, named as commentator Rick Sky, as saying that he’s not one to cheat and that Ritchie “would rather spend time in the pub drinking with his buddies.”

This sounds like just another false story from Madonna’s people aimed at smearing Guy. If he was cheating we would have heard about it a lot sooner.

This week’s Hello Magazine has a much more complete and detailed insider report of how Guy and Madonna’s relationship ended. I read it, and was going to report on the whole thing, but it’s a very long article and is covered quite well by Lainey at Lainey Gossip. Basically a friend of Guy’s says that the relationship was over for some time and that Madonna wanted to wait to tell the press until her tour was over. Madonna’s focus on her tour and physique pushed them apart, and she was livid that Guy was hanging out partying with his friends and making her look bad, even though they had already agreed to separate at that point. It was Guy who ended up making the announcement to the press. Lainey has more details and there’s more in the latest issue of Hello! with Madonna and Guy on the cover.