Candice Houlihan, 31, said she had a brief fling with A-Rod in 2004
Candice Houlihan today pitches into Madge’s marriage crisis with a sizzling account of how Alex ‘A-Rod’ Rodriguez —the David Beckham of baseball—secretly romped with her in wild nights of passion.
Muscular New York Yankees ace Rodriguez—now being divorced by wife Cynthia who has cited the singer as the other woman—seduced shapely Candice by THROWING her over his shoulder and CARRYING her to bed.
“If it’s true Madonna has sampled Alex’s charms, then she’ll know what I mean when I say she’s a lucky lady,” says 32-year-old Candice.
“And if not then I can tell her he is the most amazing lover she’ll ever have and she should give it a whirl.
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“I know she’s very sexually experienced but I bet even she hasn’t experienced anything like Alex before.”
Madonna, 49, has denied rumours of an affair with 32-year-old Rodriguez as she and movie director husband Guy Ritchie try to patch up their troubled marriage. But Candice says sex with him was so incredible she COULDN’T RESIST the hunk when he wielded his bat—even AFTER she discovered Cynthia was expecting his baby. “What he can do to satisfy a woman is amazing—he’s very gifted in that department,” she says.
“The two nights I shared with him were magical and given half the chance I would do it again in a heartbeat—even though I felt bad when I found out about his wife. In that way he’s just like any other guy.”
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Candice met the top Major League batter — paid $27.5 million a season—at a game between the Yankees and her hometown team Boston Red Sox.
Randy Rodriguez made his advances to her while she was on the sidelines and he was warming up with team mates.
“She agreed to meet the 6ft 3star for a drink after the game but thought he was only joking—until he showed up at the city’s Saint club where they downed tequila shots and Sex on the Beach cocktails. “He sat right next to me and for about an hour we talked non-stop. It was clear he was interested in me and I was definitely interested in him,” says Candice.
“Alex asked if my friend, her boyfriend and I wanted to go back to his hotel for some drinks. In the back of the taxi he kissed me for the first time—and I knew then what else was on the cards.”
After an hour partying in his suite the other couple left and A-Rod made his move.
“As soon as the door shut behind them Alex smiled at me, picked me up with his huge muscly arms and threw me over his shoulder. I felt like the luckiest girl alive,” says Candice.
“He is so strong and easily carried me into his bedroom area and gently put me down on the bed and began taking off his clothes. Then he slipped off my short denim mini skirt and hot pink sweater so we were both naked. We had the most amazing sex for about two hours. Alex was a very generous lover and he knew there was more than one person to satisfy.
“We were pretty creative too and did it in loads of positions.”
Next morning when Candice left Rodriguez he kissed her and took her phone number.
Later in the day the smitten beauty did an internet search on her star date and was shocked to find his wife was pregnant.
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She says: “I didn’t regret sleeping with him but I felt bad when I found that out. I was disappointed that Alex was that kind of man.”
But not disappointed enough to tell him where to go when he called her again months later in October 2004.
“The Yankees were in town but I didn’t expect to hear from him,” she said. “Then my phone went off and it was him asking if I wanted to go over and see him at the team hotel again. I was up for some fun so I thought, ‘what the hell’.
“It was really nice to see him again. We chatted very briefly but it was clear what he wanted and we were soon stripping off. Alex and I had sex in his bed for almost an hour again in a variety of positions.
“Then we lay in bed making small talk—then we did it again. At about 11pm he told me he would love for me to stay but he had to play an early game the next day.
“So I got dressed, gathered my stuff and left and I have not heard from him since. I knew what it was all about and I have no problem with that. I was not looking for anything more. I knew he had a wife and that we could take this no further, that was just the way it was. But I think her divorcing him is the smart thing to do. A leopard never changes his spots.”
Last week lawyers representing Cynthia Rodriguez announced she was divorcing her husband of five years on the grounds of “extra marital affairs and marital misconduct” and cited his relationship with Madonna as “the final straw”.
Madonna took the unusual step of issuing a statement denying that she and Rodriguez were having an affair. She said: “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.”
But A-Rod’s wife and her lawyers are unconvinced. Cynthia, 34—who gave birth to their daughter Natasha just a few weeks after her husband’s romp with Candice—has already endured the shame last year of revelations that he had cavorted with exotic dancer Joslyn Morse in a strip club in Toronto.
Candice was not shocked to hear of Rodriguez being linked to Madonna. She says: “I think Alex is definitely her type. He is successful, gorgeous, athletic and tanned, what woman wouldn’t want that?
“They are a match made in heaven. He is a powerful figure in his industry and so is she in hers. I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if they did get together, they would be a huge power couple.
“And I truly believe there is rarely no smoke without fire. If anyone can lure a woman away from their husband, it’s Alex.”
