J-Lo doesn’t want her ex-husband peddling sex tapes or mockumentaries

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Jennifer Lopez has sued her ex-husband for $10 million over his selling their honeymoon sex tape to filmmaker Ed Meyer and for his making an upcoming mockumentary called “How I Married Jennifer Lopez: The JLo and Ojani Noa Story.”

According to Courthouse News Service, Noa is a Cuban-born model. He and J-Lo were married from February 1997 to January 1998. Noa is trying to make the most of those 11 months of marriage. He has already tried to write a book about it. In a previous round of Noa-Lopez litigation, she paid him a settlement and he signed an agreement not to “disclose for monetary fain any private or intimate details about either [Lopez] or his relationship with [Lopez].” Because of that agreement, Lopez was able to stop him from writing the book.

Now he’s attempting to get around the agreement by creating a “mockumentary” instead of a documentary.

In her complaint in Los Angeles Superior Court, Lopez says Noa and Meyer are “producing and marketing for sale a feature film titled ‘How I Married Jennifer Lopez: The JLo and Ojani Noa Story’ … which they describe as the ‘(s)tory of Jennifer’s Lopez’s tumultuous first marriage to Cuban immigrant, chef and model Ojani Noa.’ [Filmmaker Ed] Meyer also claims to have acquired from Noa the exclusive rights to what Meyer described as ‘11+ hours of previously unseen home video footage of Jennifer Lopez and Ojani Noa’ … and asserted that he and Noa ‘will be marketing/licensing [the films] for sale in DVD format at the American Film Market,’ which is to be held in Santa Monica, California, from November 2-11, 2009.”

Her complaint states: “In response, that same day Meyer sent Lopez’s attorney an email in which he stated that the Home Video Materials depict Lopez ‘in revealing lack of clothing, and in sexual situations, especially in the hotel room footage from [her and Noa's] honeymoon,’ and that the injunction is ‘100% ineffective.’”

…Meyer sent another email to her attorney, in which he wrote “that the injunction was ‘only a “State Court” injunction, with extremely limited jurisdiction and effectiveness.’ Meyer continued to state that: ‘I don’t even need to litigate this in the court system, as I can litigate it in the media.’”

via Courthouse News Service.

So then Lopez sued. And now he does have to litigate it in the court system.

She is seeking $10 million in damages for invasion of privacy, violation of publicity rights and breach of contract. I imagine her suit will be more successful in the courts than her movies are at the box office.