A Los Angeles Superior Court judge Friday rejected Jennifer Lopez’s petition for a retraining to block West Coast hip-hop industrialist Marion “Suge” Knight from marketing and an allegedly pornography videotape of the singer-actor and former girlfriend of East Coast hip-hop industrial Sean “P-Ditty” Combs.
Lopez sought the restraining order in an invasion of privacy lawsuit against Knight and his label Death Row Records after the tabloid The Star reported last week that Knight had plans to market a sex videotape involving another former boyfriend that was purportedly filmed while she was a Flygirl dancer on the Keenan Ivory Wayans-produced satirical variety show “In Living Color.”
In a letter to Lopez’s attorney Stanton L. Stein, Knight’s attorney Jeffrey Lowry maintained that Knight did not possess such a tape. Stein acknowledged that one of Knight’s companies is producing a video documentary on Lopez titled “Lo-J Uncut: The Real Story.”
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Knight’s publicist Jonathan Wolfson of Brown Wolf confirmed the pending documentary but acknowledged that he was unaware of its contents because the film was still in editing.
In her lawsuit petition, Lopez acknowledged that she was unaware that such a video existed but that she wants it blocked if it does exist because she would “suffer greatly in her occupation” if it is made public.
Neither Stein nor Lowry returned Hip-Hop DX’s phone calls or emails.
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Knight was released from California’s Mule Creek State Prison in the Sacramento area town of Lone last month after serving half of a nine-year sentence for violating probation on assault charges in connection with a 1996 brawl in the lobby of the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas hours before the unsolved guy slaying of West Coast-based Death Row rapper Tupac Shakur. A Los Angeles judge ruled in 1997 that he saw Knight—who was in probation for assaulting two rappers in 1992 at the time of the 96 incident—kicking Los Angeles resident Orlando Anderson at the MGM Grand. While serving most of his sentence at the California Men’s Colony in San Luis Obispo, in Central California between Los Angeles and San Francisco, Knight was also a suspect in the ‘97 gun slaying of rapper Notorious BIG in Hollywood but was never charged by Los Angeles police.
