J.Lo Wins Lawsuit Over Tell-All Book

Posted on August 8, 2007

Jennifer Lopez has won her lawsuit against her creepy first husband, Ojani Noa. Ojani violated a confidentiality agreement he signed as part of a large settlement her received from JLo when she fired him from managing her restaurant. He got a lot of money to promise not to write a book sharing "intimate details" about Jennifer and their relationship. So, naturally, he wrote a book anyway. She sued, and won over $500,000 in damages.

Jennifer Lopez's ex-husband wrote the book. Jennifer Lopez got the bonus. An arbiter has awarded the actress-singer just under $545,000 in her legal battle over a tell-all tome reportedly penned by former Lopez spouse Ojani Noa, Lopez's attorney confirmed Wednesday. Paul Sorrell said he couldn't comment on his star client's reaction to the decision, but added, "I think she'd just like to see this be over." Noa did not immediately return a message left seeking comment.
Lopez sued Noa, the first of her three husbands, in 2006 after the New York Post reported the ex was making the publishing rounds with a Lopez-themed book proposal. In Lopez's lawsuit, the actress claimed that Noa's book was full of the sort of stuff that sells books: Namely, sex. (View the legal documents.) According to the Lopez camp, the literary Noa accused Lopez of partaking in "multiple duplicitous sexual affairs" during the making of her 1997 monster thriller Anaconda and of running around with future third husband Marc Anthony while she was linked to Sean "Diddy" Combs, and Anthony was married to beauty queen Dayanara Torres.
While Lopez might have accused Noa of being ungentlemanly, her lawsuit actually accused him of breaking a confidentiality clause in a 2005 settlement which itself arose from a 2004 lawsuit filed by Noa. (For those keeping score at home, Noa sued Lopez when he was fired from her Southern California restaurant, Madre's; Lopez settled the case for $125,000 and a pledge that Noa would refrain from blabbing about "intimate details" of her or their relationship.)

Jennifer is currently starring in the Hector Lavoe biopic, El Cantante, in which she plays Hector's long-suffering wife, Puchi. The reviews have not been great so far, but at least she stopped Ojani Noa from publishing his creepy book. Although, you know we would have read it.