Jennifer Lopez's bootylicious bod will no longer be draped in Louis Vuitton.
The superstar's run as the luxury line's pitchwoman has expired, and, if the gossip columns are to be believed, Lopez was dropped because her penchant for pricey freebies annoyed company execs.
La Lopez, who was the face of Vuitton's fall 2003 campaign, allegedly took tens of thousands of dollars worth of luxury goods after a photo shoot for the design house. J.Lo even sent an assistant back to collect a groovy pair of socks she'd forgotten, according to a source cited in the New York Post.
But a rep for Lopez calls the report "completely inaccurate," saying the campaign was meant to be a one-shot deal only. "It was a mutually fantastic experience for both," said the spokesperson.
Calls to Louis Vuitton were not returned.
Curiously, the diva-esque claims come as the former Fly Girl has rekindled her relationship with onetime manager Benny Medina, who has been credited with orchestrating Jenny's rise from the Block to Bling-Bling City. Last week, the two sides allegedly dropped dueling legal filings against each other. No word on a cause for the reconciliation.
Earlier this year, Lopez axed Medina. At that time, the 43-year-old manager was largely blamed for her most pampered demands, like her request for a fully equipped 45-foot trailer while shooting a brief cameo for a charity video benefiting 9-11 and AIDS victims and her insistence on all-white dressing rooms stocked with white lilies, white sofas and room-temperature Evian everywhere she goes.
Dubbed "The Mediva" due to his own love of all things luxurious, the ex-manager became the public fall guy for Lopez's diva image and was singled out as the reason for the multi-hyphenate's departure from the Endeavor Agency--her reps there released a statement in June saying they "were no longer able to work with" Medina.
Lopez's house cleaning this summer also extended to her publicist, Alan Nierob, who had reportedly advised the Latin sensation to tone down her diva demands.
Among some of the more outrageous requests the press have attributed to Lopez are her insistence on having her coffee stirred counterclockwise, employing lackeys to spray gardenia perfume in her path, refusing to sleep in any hotel bed that wasn't brand new and directing hotel staff not to look her directly in the eye.
But the woman who allegedly had Fenway Park security guards rope off a ladies room for her own private use insists that the public's perception of her is all wrong.
During a Dateline NBC interview earlier this year the Bronx-born babe tried to dispel her diva image, saying, "All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared...Then you hear all this stuff that people say about you. It can be hurtful," Lopez told interviewer Pat O'Brien.
"I think people are always surprised, when I go work on a movie or do something, when I show up and it's just me, my assistant and my driver. And they say, 'Well, where is everybody else?' This is it. It's just me," said Jenny.
The Misunderstood One, who's looking to bring out a line of lingerie next fall, just wrapped shooting on Shall We Dance? opposite Richard Gere. Then there are two Miramax flicks waiting to be released, An Unfinished Life with Robert Redford and Jersey Girl opposite Ben Affleck.
Bennifer's other half is on spin-control mode for his upcoming Paramount Pictures Christmas Day release, Paycheck. Rumors of another flop have prompted the studio and Affleck's rep into overdrive, insisting the stinker reports are "bulls--t!"