The star revealed that she plans to spend more time focussing on more serious film roles and music projects - without thinking about the profits.

She added: "If you focus on the money you’re not going to get anywhere. If money is your motivation you’re going to be such an empty shallow person."


J-Lo sued over ’stolen’ TV series - May 21 2007
A US judge has ordered Jennifer Lopez to court to answer questions about a television series on Miami’s modelling and nightclub scene.

The questions are in a writ brought last year by a television writer who says the actress, along with UPN and CBS Television, stole his idea to create South Beach.

Jack Bunick claimed in a lawsuit in US District Court in Manhattan that the series that debuted in January 2006 was too similar to a plot he described in 1999 for a pilot episode of a show that would have been called South Beach Miami.

In February, lawyer Orin Snyder argued for J-Lo in court papers that although she was executive producer, the actress was barely involved in the creation and development of South Beach and was brought in only at a later stage to "lend celebrity to the show".

Sheldon Farber, a lawyer for Bunick, hit back his own letter to the court saying J-Lo was a proper defendant.

"Her celebrity is not a shield for her to use to avoid direct testimony in a case in which she has not been named frivolously," he wrote.

"I am unaware that one of the perks of fame is protection from legal process. She may be inconvenienced by an appearance at a deposition. I can assure the court that I will not ask for her autograph."

The lawsuit in Manhattan sought unspecified monetary damages and an injunction barring further broadcasting of South Beach, which has been cancelled.

J-Lo’s rep denies death threats - May 10 2007
J-Lo’s spokeswoman has denied reports that the singer has been forced to beef up her personal security team after receiving death threats from an animal rights activist.

A friend of the glamorous star told the New York Daily News that an extremist has been sending Jen letters threatening "to kill her in public, just like the slaughtered animals whose fur she wears".

The source added that La Lopez dismissed the notes as junk mail at first, but her husband Marc Anthony became concerned when the letters continued to arrive over the past month.

"He has hired two off-duty police officers, in addition to her usual security team, to watch over Lopez whenever she makes public appearances," the friend told the newspaper.

The star’s spokeswoman, however, says that the friend’s claims are "untrue", adding that Jennifer "has had the same security team she has always had".

A spokesperson for animal rights group PETA, which is not linked to the alleged threats, told the newspaper: "All violence is wrong. But J-Lo needs to stop the real violence she promotes and subsidises rather than give herself extra protection she doesn’t need."

J-Lo sues over drugs scandal allegations - April 18 2008
Jennifer Lopez launched a libel action over allegations she was involved in a drugs scandal.

Her Belfast solicitor confirmed the first in a series of writs has been served on US tabloid the National Enquirer on behalf of the Hollywood actress and husband Marc Anthony.

Defamation proceedings were taken against the paper’s New York-based publishers American Media Inc, along with distributors Eason & Son Ltd in Dublin and John Menzies Plc in Edinburgh.

The star is understood to be seeking six-figure damages.