Judge backs Lopez over home video row with ex-husband
Jennifer Lopez. AP photo
LOS ANGELES — A US appeal court sided with superstar Jennifer Lopez on Friday in a privacy dispute with her ex-husband over the use of the former couple’s home videos.
The singer and actress, who announced last week that she was splitting from actor husband Marc Anthony, is seeking $10 million from her ex, Ojani Noa, and writer Ed Meyer.
Lopez says the video footage, which is not of a sexual nature, contains private information about her and her relationship with Noa, whom she married in 1997 but divorced 11 months later.
The 42-year-old, who originally sued Noa and Meyer in November 2009, alleges that the pair plan to make a movie she says is to be called “How I Married Jennifer Lopez: The J. Lo and Ojani Noa Story.”
Noa and Meyer deny they are planning a tell-all movie and say it would not have the title stated in the lawsuit.
On Friday a three-justice panel of the 2nd District Court of Appeal, reversing a lower court’s ruling, said Lopez can force Noa and Meyer to resolve the case by arbitration.
The lawsuit was the second Lopez filed against Noa after their divorce: in 2007 she won $545,000 and legal costs for breach of contract over a planned ghost written tell-all book.
The book, which was blocked from being published, reportedly recounted how Lopez had had multiple affairs, including with her current husband Marc Anthony whom she is now leaving after seven years of marriage.
