A California judged granted Jennifer Lopez a temporary restraining order barring her ex-husband from selling or distributing 11 hours of sex-tinged home videos of their honeymoon and brief marriage. The singer claims he is trying to exploit her with the footage and a proposed film he is making about his life, titled 'The J.Lo and Ojani Noa Story.'
According to reports, the film includes scenes of Noa spanking Lopez, as well as shots of the singer wearing skimpy lingerie. There is also reportedly footage of Lopez embroiled in a heated argument with her mother.
But Noa, 34, who represented himself in court, insisted the camcorder footage included nothing sexual and is used to develop characters for the film. Further, he claims he had no intention of selling it. He describes the film he is making a 'Borat'-style mockumentary about his life as an immigrant.
"I'm not making any money from these videos," he told the NY Daily News after the ruling. "This is about having a closure. It's my story."
But a judge agreed that he was trying to make money of his ex-wife, who filed a $10 million lawsuit against Noa on Friday alleging he has broken a confidentiality agreement they signed in 1998 and 2005.
"It's a movie about my life," he said outside court. "They're trying to ruin my life again ... She don't want me to succeed and that's the problem."
In 2007, she won $545,000 in damages and attorney fees in another lawsuit that blocked Noa from publishing a ghostwritten tell-all book. Lopez claimed Noa demanded $5 million to keep from publishing the book.
The restraining order also applies to Ed Meyer, who is Noa's manager. Meyer's attorney, Frank Sanes Jr., said the criticism is undeserved.
"Noa has an interesting story that should be told. He has nothing but respect for Jennifer," Sanes said. "The talk about sex tapes is a smoke screen."
