Jennifer Lopez News: Ojani Noa Still Battling Ex-Wife Over Honeymoon Tape In Court [VIDEO]
Jennifer Lopez is still in a legal battle with her ex-husband, Ojani Noa, over a reported sex tape, E News! reported Wednesday.
A notice from counsel that differences between Lopez, Noa and two of his associates was filed in L.A. Superior Court Monday in the years long legal battle between. The issue stemmed from Lopez's ex-husband attempting to sell a tape featuring the On The Floor singer on her honeymoon with the former waiter in 1997. The two divorced a year later, but the matter has persisted for 15 years and Noa's business partner said that an end was not yet in sight.
"Ojani Noa and I have not accepted a settlement," Ed Meyer told E! News. What Jennifer Lopez's attorneys are offering is ridiculous. We are asking for $ 3.75 million."
Meyer previously described the tape as containing 15-20 minutes of nudity and that there were 27 hours of footage. However, both sides have always demurred over whether the tape featured sexual activity.
"There wasn't anything close to sex in it," Lopez's attorney John Lavely told PEOPLE in December 2009. "We never alleged that. But it's still private and personal to my client."
Meyer owns a portion of the videotape as does Noa's girlfriend Claudia Vazquez. She purchased the distribution for $1 in 2011. Vazquez's initiated another round of legal wrangling between the exes when she attempted to sell footage of the so called sex tape as part of a documentary she planned to release on the pop singer's rise to fame. A judge had previously prohibited Noa from releasing the tape to the public or capitalizing on his relationship to Lopez for monetary gain.
Vazquez and Meyer attempted to find a loophole in the ruling by pitching the sale of the tape themselves. They fielded offers in June 2011.
"I've gotten emails from Pornhub, YouPorn, Pulse Distribution, Red Light District and Kevin Blatt, who brokered Paris Hilton's sex tape," Meyer said at the time. "If an offer looks good, we'll definitely take it."
Lopez once again had her attorney's go to court to prevent the release. A judge declared on June 6, 2011 the tape could not be released without the singer's consent.
Watch the videos below of Noa discussing Lopez and threats to his life in 2009.