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Los Angeles, Nov 10 (IANS) A judge here has stopped Jennifer Lopez’s first husband from releasing a so-called mockumentary featuring the ex-couple’s short-lived love life and an expose of her allegedly cheating ways.
Ojani Noa, who has been trying to milk his role as Lopez’s husband No. 1 ever since their marriage broke more than a decade ago, has been pitching “How I Married Jennifer Lopez: The J. Lo and Ojani Noa Story”, for a couple of weeks.

Lopez filed a $10 million lawsuit Friday and requested an injunction preventing the release of any footage featuring her.

On Monday the Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James C. Chalfant agreed to keep the movie on lockdown until a further hearing Tuesday on whether to make the injunction permanent.

Chalfant will also decide whether to grant a request by Lopez’s attorney, John H. Lavely, to review all video material, sexually explicit or otherwise, Noa and his manager-producing partner Ed Meyer plan to shop around so he can determine if they violated the ex-couple’s nondisclosure agreement.

“We’re going try to convince the judge that the injunction is not called for. The judge will have to decide whether or not [to grant plaintiff's request] to have certain documents sealed or not,” Meyer’s lawyer Frank Sanes told E! News.

Meyer and Noa believe they are skirting the terms of a confidentiality agreement by fictionalizing parts of the story and hiring actors to re-create scenes. Meyer told E! News that production was set to begin in January.

Lopez met Noa, then a waiter in a Miami eatery, before she hit the big time. They married in February 1997 but divorced 11 months later. They remained on friendly terms, with Lopez even hiring Noa to run her Los Angeles-area restaurant in April 2002.

But things soured and she fired him six months later. Noa sued her for wrongful termination, and the pair eventually signed an agreement preventing either from talking about the settlement or their union.

That didn’t stop Noa from threatening to publish a tell-all book about their time together and how she allegedly cheated on him and other boyfriends.

A court-appointed arbitrator ruled in Lopez’s favour and awarded her $545,000 in compensatory damages.