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J.Lo's Ex Comes Out Fighting

Fri., Dec. 1, 2006 6:37 PM PST by Natalie Finn

Ojani Noa is unwilling to go quietly into obscurity.

Jennifer Lopez's first ex-hubby told a Los Angeles judge Friday that he is sorry he ever agreed to stop peddling a tell-all book about Lopez and instead wants to "fight this thing to the end."

"I didn't agree to it," Noa told the court, referring to the preliminary injunction handed down June 30, adding that he's not sure what this whole "arbitration" business is all about either.

The former waiter, whom Lopez married in 1997, said that because of his limited English skills, he didn't understand what was happening when his lawyer agreed in October to enter arbitration with Lopez, rather than let the matter play out before a judge.

"My lawyer told me that was the right thing to do, and I went along with it," Noa said.

To Noa's credit, maybe his attorney didn't quite get the picture, either. Noa said that he found out on Nov. 8 that the lawyer who had been representing him wasn't actually licensed to practice law.

L.A. Superior Court Judge Victor Person gave Noa until Jan. 17 to obtain a new attorney or prepare to represent himself.

Lopez sued the would-be writer in April, asking for a permanent injunction against any tell-all publication possibly in the works, claiming Noa had told her he would consider dropping the project for a $5 million payoff.

Among the choice tidbits supposedly gathered in Noa's manuscript are details about his and J.Lo's first sexual encounter and info about her allegedly unfaithful ways during the course of their 11-month union, including a supposed dalliance with a still-married Marc Anthony.

Noa told reporters outside the courthouse Friday that his former missus was merely trying to vilify him in the public's mind, saying he did not try to blackmail her, but was only answering a question her associates posed to him.

"They asked me, 'What do you want?' " Noa said. "We live in a country where we have free speech—the First Amendment."

Furthermore, he said, this whole tell-all thing has gotten way out of hand as well.

"This was to be about my life story, coming here from Cuba," Noa said. "She was only a part of my life, but I was going to talk about my other girlfriends as well…I'm not that kind of guy. I'm a private person, too."

The New York Post reported back in January, however, that Noa's manuscript was a 12-chapter tome titled The Unknown Truth: A Passionate Portrait of a Serial Thriller, with each chapter name borrowing a title from one of Lopez's movies.

Under the current injunction, Noa is forbidden from selling or distributing the manuscript by any means and is not allowed to profit from any private or intimate details about Lopez or his relationship with her. He must also refrain from "criticizing, denigrating, casting in a negative light or otherwise disparaging or causing disparagement to the plaintiff."

(These terms closely resemble a part of a settlement agreement the pair arrived at last year, after Noa sued Lopez for allegedly backing out of an agreement to have him run one of her restaurants.)

Anyone Noa has already shared his manuscript with is also enjoined by the court order and must return any J.Lo book materials they have in their possession to the Out of Sight star and her attorneys.