Jennifer Lopez and "Mr. Jennifer Lopez" Marc Anthony caught up in Heroin & Child Pornography scandal!
Taylor
Posted Apr 16th 2007 3:11PM by TMZ Staff
Filed under: Celebrity Justice, Intact Celebrities
Jennifer Lopez and husband Marc Anthony are furious over a report that
they were involved in a heroin scandal -- and now the hopping mad
couple is hopping the pond to seek revenge in court.
Both J.Lo and Marc are set to file several lawsuits against the
National Enquirer in the United Kingdom, claiming that any link to a
drug scandal is pure BS. They're hoping that celeb-friendly libel laws
in the U.K. will result in harsher punishment than they might find
stateside.
The March, 2007 article at the center of the controversy, printed in
British and Irish editions of the Enquirer, accused both Lopez and
Anthony of being "caught up in a heroin scandal." The Enquirer also
printed a photo of Anthony standing with photographer Michael Star,
who is facing heroin and child pornography charges in the United
States.
According to AP, the couple is demanding "a six figure settlement," an
apology and a retraction.
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Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony Suing National Enquirer
Monday, April 16, 2007
DUBLIN, Ireland - Jennifer Lopez and her husband, Marc Anthony, are
suing the National Enquirer in European courts over the tabloid's
claims they were linked to a drug scandal, their Belfast lawyer said
Monday.
Paul Tweed, who specializes in bringing U.S.-based celebrities' libel
cases to British and Irish courts, told The Associated Press that
actress-singer Lopez, 38, and singer Anthony, 37, were seeking "a six-
figure settlement" from the Enquirer, based in Boca Raton, Fla., and
its parent company, American Media Inc.
Tweed said the lawsuit would be filed Tuesday in a Belfast court, and
in subsequent days in courts in Dublin, London and Paris.
A telephone message left at the National Enquirer wasn't immediately
returned Monday. A spokesman for AMI, Richard Balvo, said he had no
comment.
"It would be our policy to not comment on it at this time, Balvo said.
The lawsuit also seeks an apology and retraction for an article that
appeared in different versions of the Enquirer's U.S. and
international editions.
The version published March 12 in British and Irish editions alleged
the couple were "caught up in a heroin scandal" -- and reprinted a
2004 picture of Anthony standing beside photographer Michael Star, who
is facing charges of heroin possession and child pornography in the
U.S.
The article quoted an alleged friend of Star as saying Star and
Anthony were friends.
Tweed told the AP this was untrue and that Anthony didn't know Star
even as an acquaintance. Anthony posed for the 2004 photograph, Tweed
said, in keeping with his usual hospitality toward backstage concert
fans.
There has been a growing trend in international libel suits brought by
U.S.-based celebrities in European courts, where libel laws favor the
celebrity, not the publication.
"The First Amendment restrictions in U.S. libel law make it virtually
impossible for international celebrities or other high-profile
individuals to sue successfully," Tweed said. "But with the advance of
the Internet, and with U.S. publications now extending their
distribution network into Europe, they must subject themselves to
libel laws in these jurisdictions."
Tweed said he received approval Monday from Lopez's Los Angeles law
firm, Lavely & Singer, to proceed with the lawsuit.
It will be Tweed's second lawsuit against the Enquirer. In July 2006,
he secured a published apology in the European edition of the Enquirer
for an article that claimed pop singer Britney Spears was about to
divorce Kevin Federline.
Taylor
Scotius
<fetchwithr...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>J.Lo to Smack National Enquirer Over Heroin Story
>Posted Apr 16th 2007 3:11PM by TMZ Staff
>Filed under: Celebrity Justice, Intact Celebrities
>
>
>Jennifer Lopez and husband Marc Anthony are furious over a report that
>they were involved in a heroin scandal -- and now the hopping mad
>couple is hopping the pond to seek revenge in court.
>
>Both J.Lo and Marc are set to file several lawsuits against the
>National Enquirer in the United Kingdom, claiming that any link to a
>drug scandal is pure BS. They're hoping that celeb-friendly libel laws
>in the U.K. will result in harsher punishment than they might find
>stateside.
I hope it works. I remember when Michael Landon gave a
near-deathbed interview to the Star after they promised to leave him
and his family alone, and they just kept right on hounding him. They
can talk all they want about freedom of speech, but if there was no
money in it they wouldn't be doing it.
Mike Walker is an asshole.
Taylor
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Michael Landon was a total bastard in his personal-life and his wife
and kids and friends knew it. Word was actually trickling up to the
surface just before his announcement of his illness. For (the sake of)
his family, he's in a better place. :-)
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