Jennifer Lopez and her husband, Marc Anthony, are suing the claims they were linked to a drug scandal, their Belfast lawyer Paul Tweed, who specializes in bringing US-based celebrities' libel cases to British and Irish courts, told The Associated Press that actress-singer Lopez, 38, and singer Anthony, 37, were seeking "a six-figure settlement" from the Enquirer, based in Boca Raton, Fla., and its parent company, American Media Inc. Tweed said the lawsuit would be filed Tuesday in a Belfast court, and in subsequent days in courts in Dublin, London and Paris.
immediately returned on Monday. A spokesman for AMI, Richard Balvo, said he had no comment. "It would be our policy to not comment on it at this time, Balvo even as an acquaintance.
Anthony posed for the 2004 photograph, Tweed said, in keeping with his usual hospitality toward backstage by US-based celebrities in European courts, where libel laws favor the celebrity, not the publication. individuals to sue successfully," Tweed said. "But with the advance of the internet, and with US publications now extending their distribution network into Europe, they must subject themselves to libel laws in these jurisdictions.
" firm, Lavely Singer, to proceed with the lawsuit. July 2006, he secured a published apology in the European edition Britney Spears was about to divorce Kevin Federline.
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