Is the Ritchies' famous friend, Gwyneth Paltrow acting as a marriage counselor during the couple's time of crisis or just a shoulder to cry on?


gwynnie145.jpgGwynnie (seen here) showed up at the couple's Manhattan apartment this afternoon at 1:45...

Madonna070708_01_X17.jpgMadonna (wearing those same damn shorts & shoes) left Gwyneth and Guy for the studio a half hour later at 2:15...

GRitchie070708_09_X17.jpgGuy left his apartment for the second time (he went out earlier this morning) at 3...

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Gwyneth left at 4...

...and Guy returned at 4:05!

So strange! Was she there then to just act as Auntie Gwyneth to the kids, for whom this all could be very distressing? Or was it an intervention gone wrong?