It was a sharp and surprising setback to Jennifer Lopez.
A Los Angeles judge Friday morning rejected the singer’s attempt to move an ongoing legal feud stemming from a never-made mockumentary scripted by Lopez’s former husband out of the courts and into private arbitration. (And out of public scrutiny.)
Superior Court Judge William Fahey told lead Lopez attorney Jay Lavely that neither the singer’s ex, Ojani Noa, nor Noa’s business associate, Ed Meyer (pictured, with Noa), were covered by a narrowly defined passage from a Lopez-Noa 2005 post-divorce settlement.
That agreement contained clauses effectively barring Noa from marketing tell-all accounts of their marriage.