J.Lo Flight-Schooled
Perhaps Jennifer Lopez couldn't squeeze a checkbook into her carry-on luggage.
A Los Angeles-area private aircraft company sued the Maid in Manhattan star Wednesday for alleged post-flight misconduct. As in, neglecting to pay the bill.
Burbank-based Avjet Corp. filed its complaint in Los Angeles Superior Court, stating that Lopez and husband Marc Anthony (listed by their legal names of Jennifer and Marc Muniz) chartered a jet Jan. 26 to fly them and four friends from Farmingdale, New York, to Puerto Rico, and then used the company again May 25 to go from Farmingdale to Burbank.
Neither of the $16,000 trips has been paid for, Avjet's lawsuit says, and Lopez owes more than $34,000.
However, a publicist for Lopez and Anthony says the invoice was supposed to be processed by a third-party billing service and that the stars were targeted in the lawsuit because of their deep pockets and high profile.
When they weren't jetting across the country, Lopez and Anthony took time to attend the Toronto International Film Festival last month, where their pet project, the Héctor Lavoe biopic El Cantante, scored a distribution deal with Picturehouse and a summer 2007 release date.
"One of the things that people who've seen the movie walk away with is that they loved the music and [ask], 'Who is it? And how can I get more of it?' " Lopez told Spanish-language network MTV Tres, referring to the pioneering salsa rhythms that made Lavoe, played by Anthony in the film, an icon both in his native Puerto Rico and the U.S.
Lopez the Entrepreneur is scheduled to premiere her latest J.Lo and Sweetface collections Oct. 12 and 14 during Miami Beach Fashion Week.
The On the 6 singer also reportedly sacked her manager, Jeff Kwatinetz, last month. J.Lo didn't issue a statement, but Kwatinetz's company, The Firm, said: "Jennifer is a dear friend of The Firm and will remain so regardless of the business relationship. This was a decision based on differing styles and expectations and we wish her the absolute best."
Her first Spanish-language album, Como Ama Una Mujer (The Way a Woman Loves), is due out in November, and Lopez is back on the big screen later this year in Bordertown with Antonio Banderas.
Meanwhile, the multifaceted performer continues to deny that she's with child, surmising that she "must have had 20 babies by now. [But] it's part of being a celebrity, of being in the public eye."





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