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 Albert Ferreira / Reuters Jennifer Lopez reportedly reached a very beneficial agreement with Star magazine to avoid a lawsuit. |
Looking for the dirt on J.Lo’s wedding?
You won’t find it in the Star, according to one source. The usually-feisty supermarket tab has an agreement with the diva that it won’t print anything about her without her okay, according to the insider.
The arrangement came about after the Star ran a widely-publicized alleged interview with Lopez after she broke up with Ben Affleck. It turned out that the reporter, mob boss daughter Victoria Gotti, never actually spoke with Lopez. The singer threatened to sue the tab, reports the source, and agreed not to when the tab’s reps agreed not to print anything about her without Lopez’s approval.
Lopez’s reps didn’t return calls for comment. A spokesman for the tab, however, flatly denied the story. “That would be impossible,” the rep told the Scoop. “It would make us lose our journalistic integrity. We want to be credible. That’s our whole thing.”
She must be a slow learner
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Scott Gries / Getty Images file |
The hot young star has been upsetting some advocates for the mentally disabled by using the word “retarded” as an insult.
When asked about rumors she’d had breast implants, for example, Lindsay replied, “That’s retarded.” And, referring to reports that she was feuding with Hilary Duff, Linsay said, “It’s retarded.”
The Arc, a group that advocates the rights of people with mental disabilities, is so concerned about Lohan’s language that they’re writing her a letter. “I’m going to drop her a little note to let her know that, like it or not, as a role model, she has influence over a lot of young people and the way they talk and think,” Arc spokesman Chris Privett told the Scoop. He says he sent a similar letter to Britney Spears after she used the offending word backstage once. “I think someone like Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears and, frankly the majority of people who toss that word around if they’re ordering a glass of water, don’t understand the impact of that word. There are millions of people out there who, when they hear that word, it’s like a dagger in the heart.”
Notes from all over
Vin Diesel says he grew up proud of being bi-racial. “When I was a kid, I would hear people say they had talked about my brother and me in science class, the fact that we were twins,” the action star — who has a blond, blue-eyed fraternal twin brother — told Details magazine in an issue coming out this month. “So I’m 12 years old and I’m proof of some scientific principle.” . . . Martha Stewart has stripped her Westport, Conn., home of its paint, leaving neighbors wondering if she’s looking to spruce it up to sell it, or if she’s just undertaking a new project to keep herself busy this summer. Stewart’s rep didn’t return calls. . . . Nicole Kidman says she’s no bimbo — she’s more like a nerd. “I’m not worried about people thinking I’m a bimbo. I was more the geeky bookworm type,” the star of "The Stepford Wives" tells Ladies Home Journal. “I would have preferred to be the gorgeous blonde bimbo … but I didn’t have the sexual confidence. I’ll never have it. But I think you have more fun if you do.”
Jeannette Walls delivers the Scoop Monday through Thursday on MSNBC.com.
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