People magazine is poised to pay Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony between $4 million and $6 million for exclusive U.S. rights to the first photos of their expected twins, people familiar with the negotiations said last week. At the high end, the payout would not only match box-office receipts for J.Lo’s “Gigli,” maybe a modest achievement even for newborns, but also set a stratospheric standard in the market for celebrity baby photos. Shiloh Jolie-Pitt, after all, only generated $4 million — if that.

People magazine and the stars’ representatives denied last week that any deals were complete. “I have no comment on these particular pictures,” said Larry Hackett, People’s managing editor. In the Lopez camp, Leslie Sloane Zelnick said she had heard inquiries, but declined to say more. Simon Fields, Ms. Lopez’s production partner at Nuyorican Productions, said no deal was done. Asked whether one would be, he said, “I don’t know.” Fran DeFeo, a rep for Mr. Anthony, did not respond to messages.

But the tentative arrangement that others described divvies the rights into domestic use for People and international use for OK magazine, whose many editions abroad now include a start-up in Spain, at a reputed $2 million. The Lopez camp declined to confirm a due date, but staffers at the publications are expecting the babies to be born in the next few weeks.
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Latin Album Of The Year
“Todo Cambio” Camila (Sony BMG Norte)
“El Cartel: The Big Boss” Daddy Yankee (El Cartel/Interscope/IGA)
“Como Ama Una Mujer” Jennifer Lopez (Epic/Sony BMG Norte)
“Wisin Vs. Yandel: Los Extraterrestes” Wisin & Yandel (Machete)

Latin Pop Album Of The Year, Female
“Como Ama Una Mujer” Jennifer Lopez (Epic/Sony BMG Norte)
“Demasiado Fuerte” Yolandita Monge (La Calle/UG)
“Real” Ednita Nazario (Sony BMG Norte)
“Habla El Corazon” Yuridia (Sony BMG Norte)

Latin Pop Airplay Song Of The Year, Female
“Hoy Ya Me Voy” Kany Garcia (Sony BMG Norte)
“Que Hiciste” Jennifer Lopez (Epic/Sony BMG Norte)
“Eres Para Mi” Julieta Venegas (Sony BMG Norte)
“Como Yo Nadie Te Ha Hamado” Yuridia (Sony BMG Norte)

Latin Dance Club Play Track Of The Year
“Whine Up” Kat DeLuna featuring Elephant Man (Epic)
“Do You Know (The Ping Pong Song)/Dimelo” Enrique Iglesias (Universal Latino/Interscope)
“Que Lloren” Ivy Queen (Univision)
“Que Hiciste” Jennifer Lopez (Epic/Sony BMG Norte)

Stars including Shakira and Penelope Cruz have signed a statement supporting Spanish singer Alejandro Sanz after two of his concerts were canceled. The gigs in Venezuela were scrapped after Sanz criticized the country’s president, Hugo Chavez. Other celebrities who signed the statement include Jennifer Lopez and footballer David Beckham. The signatories say they “believe in a Latin America where we are all free to express our views”. One concert was canceled in November, the other was planned for 14 February in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas.
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Jennifer Lopez is due any day now and her babies are going to be snoozin’ in style. Sources tell PageSix.com that the nursery awaiting the forthcoming fraternal twins is an ocean-themed room stocked in English furniture and French-made cribs decked out in hand-embroidered bedding. The tiny pair will also gaze upon 18-karat gilded trim and chandeliers in Jennifer and Marc Anthony’s Long Island home, as well as in the nurseries in their Bel Air and Fisher Island homes. The total cost of digs for two adorable babes? Over $120,000. PageSix.com also has a peak at their new baby gear.The twins will stay cozy in $43 matching onesies by Huddy Buddy, with pink and blue tags reading “I’m part of a set.” To get them through winter in New York, they have matching pink and blue cashmere sweater and pants sets by Baby CZ, that retail for $269, bundled in $116 organic blankets by Robbie Adrian. Like their high style mama would have it any other way?
PageSix

TMZ has learned that the Long Island hospital where J.Lo will probably give birth to her twins is practicing “pink drills” — code for thwarting a possible kidnapping. Sources at North Shore Medical Center tell TMZ the hospital conducted a “Code Pink” drill last Friday — “Code Pink” is code for locking down the hospital to prevent a kidnapping attempt.A rep for North Shore confirmed that the pink drill did indeed go down, but said that the timing is just a coincidence, but that’s not what our sources are saying. For the lowdown, check out TMZ TV tonight for the full scoop. Check your local listings.
TMZ

If all goes according to plan, Jennifer Lopez will be receiving two special valentines: namely, her twin babies, who are due on Thursday, Feb. 14. While this date has been bandied about before, a source close to Lopez said Valentine’s Day is the date she’s been focused on since the beginning of her pregnancy. “She didn’t just like it because of the obvious correlation, which is sweet, but she also was happy that it … would easily make the deadline for the weekly magazine covers.” The source said that Lopez would love it if she was able to have the first photo shoot take place in one of the three nurseries she’s had designed by Petit Tresor. “She spent over $120,000 on them (the nurseries),” said the source. There’s no overall theme to the nurseries, but all of them include cribs, changing tables and armoires imported from France and England and “some of it has 18 karat gold on the legs and knobs. The rooms will even have crystal chandeliers.” The twins, who are rumored to be named Anna Maria and Marc Ruiz, will be sharing a room, at least at first.
MSNBC

Crooner Marc Anthony arrived in Puerto Rico on Friday for a quick concert while his wife, Jennifer Lopez, is in New York, days away from giving birth to twins.
Anthony said he is very anxious and happy about the events unfolding in his life, and that Lopez’s pregnancy has been uneventful. “She never got sick,” he told El Nuevo Dia, a local daily. “Up to now, everything has been spectacular. Not even cravings.” Anthony, who expects to fly to New York after Friday’s concert, said the couple is happy about the six nominations total they received for the Billboard Latin Music Awards. Lopez, 39, and Anthony, 38, were married in 2004.
AP

Deep inside, we all want to be rock stars. That’s why musicians have done so well with their fashion lines, said Hal Rubenstein, fashion director for In Style magazine and curator of the “Grammy Salute to Fashion” event at Hollywood nightclub Boulevard 3. “Music has always been an enormous influence on how we look and how we dress,” he said, citing the Beatles’ haircuts and Lenny Kravitz’s hippie style. “There are over two dozen Grammy-nominated artists who have their own clothing line.” Thursday’s event put the spotlight on collections by six of them: Beyonce, Jennifer Lopez, Sean Combs, Jay-Z, Justin Timberlake and Jessica Simpson. Their lines were chosen because “they had the widest selection, they had the highest profile, they had great distribution, and people know who these people are,” Rubenstein said. “These are people who not only make clothes people want, but people know who they are and everyone loves the way these people look.” The show opened with Lopez’s Just Sweet collection, which was all about colorful sundresses. Next came Jay-Z’s Rocawear line, mostly multicolored hoodies modeled by shirtless hunks with perfect abs.
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Singer Marc Anthony and actress/singer Jennifer Lopez attend “A Night To Benefit Raising Malawi & UNICEF”, hosted by Madonna and Gucci, at The United Nation in New York City on February 6, 2008.

• J.Lo “gets out of the house” for Madonna’s U.N. fundraiser
A heavily pregnant Jennifer Lopez and husband Marc Anthony hit the United Nations on Wednesday for singer Madonna’s star studded fund-raising dinner for Malawi orphans and the U.N. Children’s Fund (UNICEF). “We feel great, we’re happy to be here for such a great cause — it takes a lot to get me out of the house these days,” said Lopez, who was dressed in a brown Gucci dress and joked with reporters that she might have to sneak out of the dinner if she went into labor! Amid media reports she is expecting more than one bundle of joy, Lopez simply smiled when asked if she was expecting twins. Unsurprising, most of the stars who walked the black carpet were dressed in Gucci, which paid for the entire event, although Billy Joel’s wife, TV host Katie Lee, admitted his suit was from the Italian designer’s “last season.” Gucci Chief Executive Mark Lee said the event had already raised $3.7 million “before the guests sat down to dinner” and would raise more through a celebrity auction. Alicia Keys, Timbaland and Rihanna were also slated to perform.
Reuters

• A very pregnant Jennifer Lopez – whose father recently confirmed she is expecting twins – stole the scene in a flowing brown Gucci gown with an alligator belt. (Even at nine months along, the singer is still rocking high heels. She lifted up her skirt to flash a pair of platforms to PEOPLE.) Her ex, Sean “Diddy” Combs, also hit the event, which coincided with NYC’s fashion week. When asked if he had any tips for Lopez, the mogul (who welcomed twins of his own in 2006) replied, “She doesn’t need any advice. She’s a loving person. She’ll make a great mother.”
People

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Musicians Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez attend the Marchesa Fall 2008 fashion show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2008 at Chelsea Art Museum on February 6, 2008 in New York City.
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• Pregnant Lopez stuns at New York Fashion Week
Jennifer Lopez stunned the stylish at New York City Fashion Week on Wednesday by showing off her baby bump in a breathtaking teal Marchesa dress. Despite reports she’s ready to deliver twins at any moment, Lopez couldn’t stay away from the catwalk and braved the big freeze in the Big Apple to attend the Marchesa show. She said: “I’m feeling good. I haven’t gone out a lot for the past few months, but Marchesa has been incredibly good to me. They are just amazing!” And the ever-fashion conscious star admitted she simply cannot pull off the sweatpants look that other mums-to-be adopt just before they go into labour. She added: “People make fun of me because when I do have them over to my house I do have a dress on. I don’t like the way the sweats look with the extra weight.” Lopez’s father, David, confirmed his daughter was expecting twins during an interview with a Spanish-language news show on Monday.

• Marc Anthony eager, excited to become father
Marc Anthony is eager and excited about his new babies. Anthony, whose wife Jennifer Lopez is expecting twins, said he can’t wait for the star to give birth. Anthony said, “I’m so excited to be a daddy. What’s not to be excited about?” Lopez is expected to deliver the babies later this month, and said she finds her baby bump makes it difficult to choose an oufit for New York Fashion Week. “For the size I am right now, I’m still kind of slim through the front - which is crazy,” Lopez, 38, said. “I tried on some things, and some things just make you look like you’re wearing a tent. But this dress I chose in the end is very cute. And it has pockets and the whole thing.” She also finds it difficult to abide by doctors’ advice to rest, and rather prefers to keep busy. At the Marchesa fashion show, Lopez told People magazine, “Right now the best thing I can do for myself, for my body, is to keep resting which is not easy for me. “I like keeping busy and it is very hard because if they say, ‘Be off your feet for four hours a day.’ I’m like, ‘Oh my God.’ It’s just so hard.”

The rumors are true, confirmed by no less a source than her father: Jennifer Lopez is expecting twins. And it isn’t even a Lopez family first.

“Yes, twins,” her dad David Lopez said in an interview on the Spanish-language show Escándalo TV, PEOPLE en Español reports. “The thing is in my family, my sister also had twins, so it’s a hereditary thing.” For David Lopez, the news means double the excitement.

“I’m very proud. Jennifer has yearned to be a mother for many years,” he said. And he already has gifts ready for his 38-year-old daughter’s babies. “In Puerto Rico it’s custom to buy an azabache [black stone] bracelet for babies to protect them from the evil eye, it’s part of our culture,” he said. As she became noticeably pregnant, J-Lo finally announced last November that she and Marc Anthony were expecting.
People

On February 5, 2002 “J To Tha L-O! : The Remixes” was released. Can you believe it’s been 6 years?

Despite a new report that Jennifer Lopez was at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, there was no sign Sunday of the pregnant singer.

A story Sunday in the New York Post said the hospital’s maternity ward had been “buzzing” late Saturday amid reports that Lopez had arrived to give birth to two babies. The report said two nurses had confirmed that Lopez was at the hospital, and that security appeared to have been tightened. On Sunday, however, there was no evidence either of Lopez’s presence or of heightened security in the maternity ward or at the hospital. Several calls to a hospital spokesperson went unreturned. Calls to Lopez’s publicist, Leslie Sloane, also were not returned.
NewsDay

Jennifer Lopez’s former costar Michael Vartan is confident that J. Lo will end up nothing like the nightmare mama the two tangled with onscreen in Monster-in-Law. “I think she’ll be a wonderful mom,” Michael said, and believes she can thank her roots for the maternal goods. “I think Latin women have the key… very emotional, very nurturing. You always hear about big Latin families and how close-knit they are,” he said at last night’s BlackBerry Pearl party in Los Angeles. J. Lo will get the chance to prove him right any minute now. The very-pregnant actress and her husband Marc Anthony have three rooms reserved at a Long Island hospital and are expected to arrive for the big day after midnight tonight. Good thing she went baby-shopping yesterday!
PageSix

Contrary to reports, Jenny from the block has not giving birth to her twins yet. J.Lo has been in hiding for a while but she resurfaced in Long Island, NY yesterday to do some last minute baby shopping. Jennifer Lopez hit up the Wheatley Plaza Scoop in Greenvale with her little sister Linda. She bought more than a half-dozen pairs of comfy flats because her “feet had swelled up,” and a turquoise bikini. J.Lo is expected to give birth after midnight tonight, her and hubby Marc Anthony have reserved three rooms at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, NY. I guess Marc can rest easy now, he was worried he was going to miss the birth of the twins because he has a concert in Puerto Rico next week.