Director Robert Luketic was left red-faced after turning up to Jennifer Lopez’s wedding in casual shorts and flip-flops. In an effort to keep the event unpublicised, Lopez told guests invited to her 2004 nuptials to singer Marc Anthony the event was an “afternoon party”. And the manoeuvre worked - as filmmaker Luketic, who directed Lopez in Monster-in-Law, was clueless as to the gathering’s actual purpose. He recalls, “She told me it was a barbecue because she didn’t want anyone to know about it. “Being the nice Aussie boy I am, I thought I’d bring a bit of BYO (bring your own alcohol) and wear my summer clothes. I turned up to this mansion on Mulholland, walked in the living room and all her family and everyone was there. “I remember storming into the bedroom and saying, ‘You told me it was a barbecue,’ as J-Lo was slipping into her wedding dress.”
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Jennifer Lopez and husband Marc Anthony are taking their newborn twins away for the first time. The couple are performing in Venezuela next week and are keen to have the babies with them. ‘They are going to stay in a presidential suite at a five-star hotel and have ten additional rooms on the same floor, and several cars at their disposal,’ an insider tells Star. ‘They will also have the best doctors on standby.’ Jen, 38, gave birth to twins Max and Emme on 22 February.
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A judge on Wednesday tossed out a lawsuit by a television writer who claimed Jennifer Lopez had a hand in stealing his idea for a TV series. Writer Jack Bunick claimed in a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Manhattan that the series “South Beach” that debuted in January 2006 was too similar to a plot he described in 1999 for a pilot episode of a show that would have been called “South Beach Miami.” The lawsuit named Lopez, UPN, CBS Television and others as defendants. The show, which has since been canceled, aired on UPN. The show was described as being about best friends Matt and Vincent, who left their lives in Brooklyn to move to South Beach in hope of finding a better future. U.S. District Judge Richard Berman said there’s inadequate evidence to take the case to trial. The judge also noted that Bunick admits his scripts includes generic ideas and commonplace elements and aspects of the South Beach, Miami club and modeling scene. The judge said there was “in fact … powerful evidence” that the defendants had independently created “South Beach.” A lawyer for Lopez had said in court papers that although she was executive producer, Lopez was barely involved in the creation and development of “South Beach” and was only brought in at a later stage to “lend celebrity to the show.” A lawyer for Bunick did not immediately return a telephone message for comment.
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