Jennifer Lopez is suing her first ex husband, Ojani Noa, to stop him from coming out with a book about her. Noa signed a confidentiality agreement with Lopez five months ago that stated the he could not malign Lopez or reveal details of their past relationship. Lopez wants to enforce the confidentialy agreement and get a restraining order to block the book’s release.

Noa filed a breach of contract lawsuit against Lopez at the end of 2004, claiming he’d been fired unfairly from his manager position at her Pasadena restaurant, Madres. He dropped the suit last November, and must have signed the confidentiality agreement in return for a settlement.

Noa has also tried to blackmail Lopez over the book. He asked for $5 million in return for not releasing it.

The NY Post claims that there are some juicy details in the novel, including the revelation that Lopez cheated on P. Diddy in 1999 wtih Marc Anthony.

Jessica Simpson is being sued by a clothing company for $100 million for breach of contract:

Now Mischa Barton realizes that she has to talk about Keds as part of her endorsement deal, but Jessica Simpson has a clothing line named after her and still can’t remember to plug it.

Simpson might just be fed up with endorsements. She sued an autoracing company two years ago for not paying her a mere $140,000 for wearing a T-Shirt with their logo on it in one of her videos.

Here she is in an older photo shoot for “Lovable Bras.” At least that’s a product she doesn’t have to worry about wearing out.

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Jessica Alba has forgiven Hugh Hefner for putting her on the cover of Playboy in a bikini without her permission. Alba was said to be embarassed by the issue, which seemed to suggest that she would be found naked inside. She threatened legal action and asked for the issue to be retracted, but a kind letter from Hefner convinced her to change her mind:

Alba’s lawyers were said to be in talks with representatives from Playboy, but have ultimately decided to avoid costly and time consuming legal action. It seems like Alba just wanted to make a point, and it has been well taken.

Alba has a different beef with MTV, which staged a kiss with the hot actress with an aggressive chimpanzee for a clip that aired during the MTV Movie Awards. Alba says the chimp stuck its tongue in her mouth and bared its teeth at her:

Surely any human would have been pleased to take over for the reluctant chimp.

Here is Alba with her boyfriend, Cash Warren, taking out the trash. Hollywood Tuna points out that she’s wearing a T-Shirt with his name on it, and that Cash is more than happy to let her do the heavy lifting.

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Bill Cosby’s legal team has sent a cease and desist order to popular blogger Andy Baio of Waxy.org for posting the “House of Cosbys” video files. “House of Cosbys” is a cartoon that depicts multiple cloned Cosbys living in a house together, similar to the plot of the Micheal Keaton film, Mulitplicity. Baio is standing his ground, and says that “House of Cosbys” is a parody which falls under fair use guidelines. He points to many other parodies of Cosby, and says that he refuses to be legally bullied:

Here’s House of Cosbys episode one:

Bill Cosby seems like even more of an asshole when you consider that he recently pointed out to Katrina victims that there were high crime rates in New Orleans before the natural disaster:

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This is typical of Cosby, who has lashed out in the past at what he perceives as a violent black popular culture and an unwillingness to change. Cosby has seemed to blame the African American community for their plight and maintains a dismal perspective instead of looking at more broad sociocultural factors and seeing the positive aspects of black culture.

Virgin mogul Richard Branson has paid Kate Moss a £1million advance to write an autobiography about her ordeal with cocaine abuse. Moss is said to have confided in Branson during her struggle to get off drugs last year:

Kate’s career had some setbacks, but quickly recovered after the video of her doing cocaine came out last year. Now she’s set to cash in big time with a revealing autobiography.

Kate Moss has also forfeited a lawsuit against Britian’s Channel Five for a 2004 documentary, “The Truth about Kate Moss,” that claimed that she did cocaine. In order to proceed with the lawsuit, Kate would have had to sign a statement that she didn’t do cocaine. Instead of signing the statement, for which there is plenty of proof otherwise, she gave up persuing the lawsuit.

Here is Kate out with a male friend in London on Thursday. We also have pictures of her April appearance in Harper’s Bazaar.

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Britney is getting sued by some of her former bodyguards for not paying overtime for the 24-7 coverage she demands:

I don’t know, I mean I usually side with the labor but 2k a week doesn’t sound bad. They probably just couldn’t stand being around her all day.

Before you get excited thinking this thing is actually going to come out, remember how unwatchable Chaotic was. Britney Spears has an ongoing lawsuit against US Weekly for a 2005 October article that claimed that Britney and Kevin made a sex tape which they inexplicably showed to their estate lawyers:

US Weekly wanted the lawsuit dismissed, but the judge just ruled that the suit could proceed and that Spears’ lawyer has until April 6 to get more witnesses. The author of the article in question says that his source was solid, and Spears’ lawyer is not calling him as a witness.US Weekly has refused to print a retraction.

Spears denies the tape even exists and is seeking $20 million in damages. US Weekly says Spears might be able prove the article was false, but can’t show that they had malicious intent in printing it.

You know that this thing probably exists. These are the attention whores who bragged about their sex life in that piece of shit Chaotic. Let’s hope for Britney’s sake this whole thing just blows over, and if there is a tape it’s been destroyed.

Britney was back in LA yesterday at a recording studio. While her friend has a muffin-top, Britney might actually be pregnant since her belly button is protruding so much. We don’t know. US Weekly just reported that she wasn’t pregnant, and has a C-section scar infection. (Thanks Perez!) It sounds like they’re just hedging their bets.

Thanks to Marie at the JJB board for these pictures.

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Bruce Willis may have stood up Petra Nemcova at the premiere of V for Vendetta. Nemcova said her “friend” was supposed to attend the premiere but was dissapointed that he did not come. Nemcova and Wilils are said to have spent last weekend together in Atlantic City.

Meanwhile Willis is suing Page Six for reporting that he pestered Nemcova and made a sizeable donation to her tsunami charity in order to get a first date. Maybe he didn’t show up at the premiere for fear of jeaopardizing his lawsuit.

“The Da Vinci Code” was interesting and all, but we thought the writing was piss poor. That’s why it’s not surprising that Dan Brown is not only a lousy writer, he’s also incapable of coming up with his own ideas. At least that’s what co-authors of the 1982 book “The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail” are claiming.

For his part, Brown admitted today to reading the book as part of the research for the “Da Vinci Code,” but called the plaguarism charge “completely fanciful.”:

Admitting to reading the book but saying you didn’t copy it is a weak argument. Brown might have changed enough to make it seem like he had some original ideas, but he still cheated.

Unfortunately Brown may win the case on sheer looks alone. “The Holy Blood And The Holy Grail” co-author Richard Leigh is pictured above. [via]

The co-authors of “The Holy Blood” are seeking an injuction to insure that their material is no longer used. If the case is sucessful, the scheduled May 19th of “DaVinci Code” film starring Tom Hanks and Ian McKellen could be delayed.

TMZ is reporting that Paris Hilton had dinner last night at Mr. Chows in Beverly Hills with the woman who is suing her for defamation for $10 million, Zeta Graff. The two were later seen entering The Roosevelt Hotel, and TMZ has the video.

Paris fabricated a story that Graff attacked her in July, 2005 in a London night club. She then arranged to have the story leaked to The Post. In a deposition in November for the case, Paris tried to dismiss an e-mail to her publicist in which she called the Post article about the fake incident “genius” by saying, “whatever I write in email, it doesn’t mean anything. It is just words I write.” She also didn’t recognize that London was in the U.K., and admitted that she was scared of voodoo.

It does not seem like a friendly dinner will patch things up between the two, as TMZ found that “the lawsuit is [still] 100% active.”

Here are pictures of Hilton and Graff on the night in question.

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