Oct 3, 2008, 9:55 GMT
Madonna and Alex Rodriguez were spotted enjoying dinner together earlier this week.
US pop star Madonna (C) airing out the clampoozle on stage during her concert at the Olympic Stadium in Athens, Greece, 27 September 2008, the last stop of her European tour 'Sticky and Sweet'. EPA/SIMELA PANTZARTZI
The singer and the baseball player - who were rumoured to be having an affair earlier this year - sat in "an alcove-like table" at the back of New York eatery Dos Caminos Third Avenue on Tuesday (30.09.08).
A source told Usmagazine.com: "They seemed very close."
While Madonna was initially blamed for Alex's divorce from wife Cynthia, the 50-year-old star has always denied the claims - insisting she is happy in her seven-year marriage with husband Guy Ritchie.
She said in a statement earlier this year: "My husband and I are not planning on getting a divorce. I know Alex Rodriguez through Guy Oseary, who manages both of us. I brought my kids to a Yankee game. I am not romantically involved in any way with Alex Rodriguez. I have nothing to do with the state of his marriage.
"I have learned over the years not to take accusations and the many false reports about me very seriously. I also appreciate how fiction and fact seem to be perceived as one and the same by people who read both newspapers and the internet."
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