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Jennifer Lopez
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Jennifer Lynn Lopez (born July 24, 1969), popularly nicknamed J.Lo,
is an American actress, singer, record producer, dancer, fashion designer
and television producer. She is the richest person of Latin American descent
in Hollywood according to Forbes, and the most influential Hispanic
entertainer in America according to People en Español's list of "100 Most
Influential Hispanics".
Starting in 1999, Lopez released seven albums, including two #1 albums on
the Billboard 200 charts and four Billboard Hot 100 #1 singles. She won the
2003 American Music Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist and the 2007
American Music Award for Favorite Latin Artist. She has appeared in numerous
films, and has won ALMA Awards for outstanding actress for her work in
Selena, Out of Sight, and Angel Eyes. She parlayed her media fame into a
fashion line and various perfumes with her celebrity endorsement.
Media attention has also focused on her personal life. She has had
high-profile relationships with Ojani Noa, Cris Judd, Sean Combs, Ben
Affleck, and Marc Anthony. Her first children, fraternal twins named Max and
Emme, were born on February 22, 2008.
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Early life
Jennifer Lopez was born and grew up in the South Bronx, New York to Puerto
Rican parents Guadalupe Rodríguez, a kindergarten teacher, and David Lopez,
a computer specialist, She has two siblings, Lynda and Leslie. Lopez
spent her entire academic career in Catholic schools, finishing at the
all-girls Preston High School, in the Bronx. She financed singing and
dancing lessons for herself from the age of 19. After attending Baruch
College for one semester, Lopez divided her time between working in a legal
office, dance classes, and dance performances in Manhattan night clubs.
After months of auditioning for dance roles, Lopez was selected as a dancer
for various rap music videos, a 1990 episode of Yo! MTV Raps, and as a
backup dancer for the New Kids on the Block and their performance of their
song "Games" for the American Music Awards in 1991. After being rejected
twice, Lopez gained her first regular high-profile job as a "Fly Girl"
dancer on the television comedy program In Living Color in 1990. Soon after,
Lopez became a backup dancer for Janet Jackson and made an appearance in her
1993 video "That's the Way Love Goes".
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Film and television
Lopez appeared on the short-lived television programs South Central, Second
Chances, and Hotel Malibu, and the made-for-television film Nurses on the
Line: The Crash of Flight 7. Lopez broke into the big screen in the 1995
drama My Family and then appeared opposite Wesley Snipes in the action film
Money Train. Lopez has played roles in Francis Ford Coppola's 1996 comedy
Jack starring Robin Williams, and the 1997 thriller Blood and Wine with Jack
Nicholson. Lopez played the lead role in the 1997 film Selena for which she
was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for "Best Actress - Motion Picture
Musical or Comedy" in 1998. She became the first Hispanic actress to get
paid $1 million or more for a film role. Some of her other
critically-acclaimed films include Out of Sight, The Cell, An Unfinished
Life, and Shall We Dance?. Two independent films produced by Lopez were
well-received at film festivals: El Cantante at the Toronto International
Film Festival, and Bordertown at the Brussels film festival. Other modestly
successful films include The Wedding Planner, Maid in Manhattan,
Monster-in-Law, and Enough. Gigli, however, would be a critical and
commercial disappointment. In August 2007, Lopez collaborated on the feature
film, El Cantante, with her husband singer-actor Marc Anthony. The film is
in English, with a creative use of subtitles for songs with Spanish lyrics.
In April 2004, Lopez guest starred in the sixth season finale of Will &
Grace, playing herself. This was the highest-rated episode of the series
since Elton John's appearance in 2002 and Lopez appeared again in the
seventh season's opening episode.
Lopez made an appearance as a mentor on American Idol on April 10, 2007.
In May 2006, Lopez was the executive producer of the eight-episode reality
show, DanceLife, which ran on MTV beginning January 15, 2007. Lopez helped
select the show's participants and made cameo appearances. She then served
as executive producer of a miniseries broadcast on Univisión. Titled after
her CD Como Ama Una Mujer, it ran in five episodes from October 30 to
November 27, 2007, and starred Christian Borrero and Adriana Cruz.
Lopez signed a contract as star and executive producer of an unscripted
reality series for TLC, a division of Discovery Communications Inc. The
series will show the launching of her new fragrance,[8] and will not focus
on her family.
Though she doesn't appear in the HBO mini-series, Generation Kill, there is
a recurring storyline amongst the U.S. Marines about whether or not she is
dead.
Box office standing, record sales and wealth
Lopez is one of the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood and the highest-paid
Latin actress in Hollywood history, though she's never had a film grossing
over $100 million in the U.S. Lopez appeared in the 2007 Guinness World
Records as the most powerful actress. She was on the The Hollywood
Reporter's list of the top ten actress salaries in 2002, 2003, and 2004. She
received $15,000,000 for her role in Monster-in-Law. Her top-grossing film
domestically is Maid in Manhattan which grossed $94,011,225, and her most
successful international film, Shall We Dance?, grossed $112,238,000 at the
international box office. Domestically, Shall We Dance? grossed $57,890,460
and a total of $170,128,460 worldwide.
Wealth
Lopez has sold over 48 million albums worldwide. Lopez made the 2007 Forbes
magazine's list of The 20 Richest Women In Entertainment, ranking ninth. Her
wealth is estimated to be $110 million.
Music career
On the 6 (1999)
Main article: On the 6
Lopez's debut album On the 6, a reference to the 6 subway line she used to
take growing up in Castle Hill was released on June 1, 1999, and reached the
top ten of the Billboard 200. The album featured the Billboard Hot 100
number-one lead single, "If You Had My Love",, as well as the top ten hit
"Waiting for Tonight". The album also featured a Spanish language,
Latin-flavored duet "No Me Ames" with Marc Anthony (who later would become
her husband.) Though "No Me Ames" never had a commercial release, it reached
number one on the U.S. Hot Latin Tracks. On the 6 featured guest artists
such as Big Pun and Fat Joe on the track "Feeling' So Good", which had
moderate success on the Billboard Hot 100. "Let's Get Loud", the final
single, earned Lopez a Grammy Award nomination in the "Best Dance Recording"
category in 2001 Grammy Awards. "Waiting for Tonight" was nominated for the
same category the previous year. "No Me Ames" received two nominations at
the 2000 Latin Grammy Awards — "Best Pop Duo/Group with Vocal Performance"
and "Best Music Video".
J. Lo (2001)
Main article: J. Lo (album)
Lopez's second album, J. Lo, was released on January 23, 2001 and debuted at
number one on the Billboard 200. When her film The Wedding Planner achieved
number one shortly after, Lopez become the first actress-singer to have a
film and an album at number one in the same week. The lead single, "Love
Don't Cost a Thing", was her first number-one single in the United Kingdom
and took her into the top five on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. She followed
it up with "Play" which gave her another top twenty hit on the Billboard Hot
100 and reached number three in the UK. Her next two singles were "I'm Real"
and "Ain't It Funny" which were quickly rising up the charts. To capitalize
on this, Lopez asked The Inc. Records (then known as Murder Inc.) to remix
both songs, which featured rap artists Ja Rule (on both) and Cadillac Tah
(on the "Ain't It Funny" remix). Both remixes reached number one on the
Billboard Hot 100 for several weeks. She re-released J. Lo on her
thirty-second birthday with the remix of "I'm Real" as a bonus track. Also,
"Si Ya Se Acabó" was released in Spain, due to the success "Que Ironia".
J to tha L-O!: The Remixes (2002)
Main article: J to tha L-O!: The Remixes
Following the success of the re-release of J. Lo, Lopez decided to devote an
entire album to the remixing effort, releasing J to that L-O!: The Remixes,
on February 5, 2002. This album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200,
becoming the first remix album in history to debut at the top on the
chart. Featured artists on J to tha L-O!: The Remixes included P. Diddy,
Fat Joe, and Nas, and the album included rare dance and hip hop remixes of
past singles. It is the third all-time biggest-selling remix album in the
world, after Michael Jackson's Blood on the Dance Floor: History in the Mix
(1997) and Madonna's You Can Dance (1987).
This Is Me... Then (2002)
Main article: This Is Me... Then
On November 26, 2002, Lopez released her third studio album, This Is Me...
Then, which reached number two on the Billboard 200 and spawned four
singles: "Jenny from the Block" (featuring Jadakiss and Styles P), which
reached number three on the Billboard Hot 100; "All I Have" (featuring LL
Cool J), which spent multiple weeks at number one; "I'm Glad"; and "Baby I
Love U!". The album included a cover of Carly Simon's 1978 "You Belong to
Me".
The video for "I'm Glad" recreated scenes from the 1983 film Flashdance,
leading to a lawsuit over copyright infringement, which was later dismissed.
Rebirth (2005)
Main article: Rebirth (Jennifer Lopez album)
After a year away from the music scene, Lopez released her fourth studio
album, Rebirth, on March 1, 2005. Although debuting and peaking at number
two on the Billboard 200, the album quickly fell off the charts. It spawned
the hit "Get Right", which reached the top fifteen in the U.S. and became
her second Platinum hit (after "If You Had My Love"). "Get Right" was also
successful in the UK, becoming her second number-one single there. The
second single, "Hold You Down", which featured Fat Joe, reached number
sixty-four on the U.S. Hot 100; it peaked at number six in the UK and
ascended to the top twenty in Australia. Another song, "Cherry Pie", was
slated for a release in late 2005, but the plans to make a video were
cancelled as the album sales were definitely too weak and the promotion
budget exceeded. It was released to radio stations in Spain. Rebirth was
certified Platinum in the U.S. by the RIAA. Lopez was then featured on LL
Cool J's single "Control Myself", which was released on February 1, 2006. It
reached number four on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and number two on the UK
Singles Chart. It was Lopez's first U.S. top ten hit in three years.
Como Ama Una Mujer (2007)
Main article: Como Ama una Mujer
Lopez officially released her first full Spanish-language album, called Como
Ama una Mujer, on March 27, 2007 in the U.S. and March 23, 2007 in Europe.
Her husband, singer Marc Anthony, produced the album with Estefano, except
for "Qué Hiciste", which Anthony co-produced with Julio Reyes. The album
peaked at number ten on the U.S. Billboard 200, number one on the U.S. Top
Latin Albums (for four straight weeks), number one on the U.S. Latin Pop
Albums (for seven straight weeks), and number one hundred and thirty-one in
the UK. The album did well in Europe peaking at number three on the albums
chart, mainly due to the big success in countries like Switzerland, Italy,
Spain, France, Belgium, Greece, Germany, Austria, and Portugal. The lead
single, "Qué Hiciste" (Spanish for "What Did You Do"), was officially
released to radio stations in January 2007. Since then, it has peaked at
eighty-six on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the Hot Latin
Songs and the Hot Dance Club Play. It also went top ten on the European
chart. The video for the song was the first Spanish-language video to peak
at number one on MTV's Total Request Live daily countdown. The second single
released is called "Me Haces Falta" and the third is "Por Arriesgarnos".
Lopez won an American Music Award as the Favorite Latin Artist in 2007. Como
Ama una Mujer according to the United World Chart, it is #3 on the best
selling Spanish albums of 2007 and #37 on the best selling albums so far of
2007. Como Ama una Mujer holds the record for the best opening week internet
sales for a Spanish album. With Como Ama Una Mujer, Jennifer Lopez is one of
the few performers to debut in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 with a
Spanish album.
Brave (2007)
Main article: Brave (Jennifer Lopez album)
Just over six months later, on October 9, 2007, Lopez released her fifth
English studio album (sixth studio album overall). She collaborated with
producers Midi Mafia, J. R. Rotem, Lynn and Wade and Ryan Tedder, with Rotem
working on some tracks with writing partner Evan "Kidd" Bogart. Earlier,
on August 26, 2007, ABC premiered a promo for the fourth season of Desperate
Housewives, featuring a snippet of the song "Mile In These Shoes". "Do It
Well" was released as the lead single and reached the top 20 in many
countries. "Hold It, Don't Drop It" was released as the second single in
only in some countries from Europe.
Greatest Hits Album (2008)
She is almost 10 years active in the music industry. To celebrate this she
will release a Greatest Hits album which will include, besides her smash
hits, new songs she is currently recording. The Latina superstar hopes her
upcoming Greatest Hits album will hit stores in October this year. The new
material for the album will be produced by Swizz Beatz, Timbaland, Cory
Rooney and The Matrix. On the album the singer will resume to her musical
style, but she will add rhythms and a danceable style to her remarkable
funky, hip hop, r&b and dancy sound, so it will be different from her
previous music productions.
Tours
2001: Lets Get Loud Concert
2007: Juntos en Concierto
Billboard Magazine reported, on July 24, 2007, that Jennifer Lopez and Marc
Anthony would "co-headline" a worldwide tour called "Juntos en Concierto"
starting in New Jersey on September 29.Tickets went on sale August 10. The
tour was a mix of her current music, older tunes and Spanish music. In a
later press release, Lopez announced a detailed itinerary. The tour launched
September 28, 2007 at the Mark G. Etess Arena and ended on November 7, 2007
at the American Airlines Arena in Miami, Florida.
Business
Lopez launched a clothing line in 2003. Named JLO by Jennifer Lopez, the
line included different types of clothing for young women, including jeans,
T-shirts, coats, belts, purses, and lingerie, a jewelry line, and an
accessory line that includes hats, gloves, and scarves. Lopez participated
in the Louis Vuitton Winter 2003 campaign. In 2005, she launched a new
clothing line called Sweetface. In late 2007, Lopez retired JLO by Jennifer
Lopez and launched a new juniors' line called JustSweet. Her fashion lines
have featured at many New York Fashion Week events.
Lopez's frequent use of animal fur in her clothing lines and personal
wardrobe has brought the scorn of people concerned with animal rights. At
the Los Angeles premiere of Monster-in-Law, more than one hundred protesters
from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) held a demonstration
to highlight their concerns. Lopez told a radio DJ she was open to being
educated on the topic.
On April 12, 2002, Lopez opened a Cuban restaurant in the South Lake
district of Pasadena, California named Madre's. A media sensation was
creating when during a press shoot for the fancy restaurant, a mysterious
man appeared out of the sidelines and gave Lopez a floral arrangement from
Ben Affleck, even as then-husband Chris Judd stood next to her. Lopez was
widely criticized for what appeared to be infidelity on her part.
Lopez has ventured in the perfume industry, with her debut "Glow by J.Lo".
In October 2003, Lopez introduced a perfume called "Still", having revisit
"Glow" the previous year by creating a limited edition spin-off, "Miami Glow
by J.Lo", in homage to her adopted hometown of Miami. Lopez also marketed a
"Glow" line of body lotions and bronzers. For the Christmas season of 2005,
she launched another fragrance, "Live by Jennifer Lopez". For 2006
Valentine's Day, "Miami Glow" was replaced by yet another "Glow" spin-off,
"Love at First Glow by J.Lo". Her following fragrance, "Live Luxe", was
released in August 2006, with "Glow After Dark" following in January 2007.
Lopez owns the film and television production company Nuyorican Productions,
which she co-founded with her manager, Benny Medina.Dancer
and ex-husband Chris Judd once had a stake in the company when he and Lopez
were still married. Lopez is a spokesperson for Lux shampoo
in Japan, appearing in the product's television commercials.
Lopez has been recognized by People en Español magazine as both the cover
subject for the "50 Most Beautiful" issue in 2006 and the "100 Most
Influential Hispanics" issue in February 2007.
Relationships
Ojani Noa
Lopez's first marriage was to Cuban-born Ojani Noa on February 22, 1997.
Lopez met Noa while he worked as a waiter at a Miami restaurant. They
divorced in January 1998. Lopez later employed Noa as the manager of her
Pasadena restaurant Madre's in April 2002, but he was fired in October 2002.
After Noa sued Lopez over the termination, they drew up a confidentiality
agreement. In April 2006, Lopez sued to prevent her ex-husband, Noa, from
publishing a book containing personal details about their short marriage,
contending it violated their confidentiality agreement.
In August 2007, a court-appointed arbitrator issued a permanent injunction
forbidding Ojani Noa from "criticizing, denigrating, casting in a negative
light or otherwise disparaging" Jennifer Lopez. She was awarded $545,000 in
compensatory damages, which included nearly $300,000 in legal fees and
almost $48,000 in arbitration costs. Noa was also ordered to hand over all
copies of materials related to the book to Lopez or her attorney.
Sean Combs
Lopez next had a two-and-a-half-year relationship with hip-hop mogul Sean
Combs. On December 27, 1999, Lopez and Combs were at Club New York, a
midtown Manhattan nightclub, when gunfire erupted between Combs' entourage
and another group. Lopez and Combs were being driven away from the scene
when they were chased and stopped by the police. A stolen gun was found in
the front seat of their vehicle. Lopez was charged with felony gun
possession, but the charges were dropped, as she was riding in the back seat
at the time. Stress over the trial and pursuit by the press multiplied their
problems, and Lopez terminated her involvement with Combs one year later.
Lopez was served with a subpoena in June 2008 to testify about the incident
in a deposition August 6, 2008 but the deposition did not occur because
Lopez had “nothing to contribute to the case”.
Chris Judd
Her second marriage was to her former backup dancer, Chris Judd. She met Judd
while filming the music video for her single "Love Don't Cost a Thing." The
two were married on September 29, 2001, at a home in a Los Angeles suburb.
Their marriage effectively ended in June 2002, when Lopez began publicly
dating Ben Affleck. They were officially divorced in January, 2003.
Ben Affleck
Lopez's relationship with actor Ben Affleck was highly publicized, with the
media dubbing the couple "Jennifer". Lopez announced her engagement to
Affleck in November 2002, after Affleck gave her a six-carat pink diamond
ring worth a reported $1.2 million. Lopez promised interviewers that
Affleck was indeed "the one", and that they would soon have a family. The
marriage, planned for September 14, 2003 in Santa Barbara, California, was
called off just hours before the event. During the week before the scheduled
nuptials, Affleck had been seen by press carousing at a strip club in
Vancouver with friends. The media blitz intensified when it was Lopez's own
sister who called in live radio to tell Lopez where her fiancé had been the
previous night. Lopez would only respond by saying it was a terrible way to
begin the day, finding out about Affleck's behavior in that manner.
Publicists announced a permanent split on January 20, 2004. Affleck has
refused to speak of his relationship with Lopez, only citing intense media
attention as the cause of the break-up. Their relationship was parodied on
the South Park episode "Fat Butt and Pancake Head", which aired on April 16,
2003. There was a mild media furor as to whether Lopez would give Affleck
back his ring after the break-up. Lopez did return it and it was discreetly
placed for sale at the original jewelers. Affleck has since married actress
Jennifer Garner on July 1, 2005 and they have a daughter, Violet, born on
December 1, 2005. In 2003 Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck acted together in
the film "Gigli" and in the 2004 film "Jersey Girl".
Marc Anthony
Lopez and Marc Anthony at the 2006 Time 100 gala event. Shortly after her
break-up with Affleck, Lopez was seen with singer Marc Anthony, a longtime
friend with whom she had worked in music videos. They had briefly dated in
the late 1990s, before his first marriage and her second. Lopez and Anthony
were recording a duet together in early 2004, for Lopez's then-upcoming film
Shall We Dance?. In October 2003, Anthony became separated, for the second
time, from his first wife, former Miss Universe Dayanara Torres, with whom
he has two children. Torres filed for divorce three months later. Lopez and
Anthony married in a quiet home wedding on June 5, 2004, four days after his
divorce from Torres was final. Their ceremony was private and unpublicized.
In attendance were an estimated forty close relatives and friends. On the
morning of the wedding, however, the media was tipped off and circled her
backyard in helicopters. Photographs, alerting the rest of the world, soon
followed. Reports fueled rumors that Lopez was pregnant but this was not the
case.
Lopez's guests had been invited to an "afternoon party" at Lopez's house and
had not been made aware that they were actually going to her wedding. The
couple had planned not to publicize their marriage early on, allowing more
privacy and time together in an otherwise intrusive environment. Days after
the wedding, Anthony refused to comment on their marriage during interviews
which were scheduled earlier to promote a new album "Amar Sin Mentiras" (To
Love Without Lies). In February 2005, Lopez confirmed the marriage, and added
that "everyone knows. It's not a secret". A few months later, Anthony's
daughter, Ariana, appeared at the end of Lopez's music video "Get Right" as
her little sister. Regarding his marriage and family life, Anthony maintains
a private and sometimes defensive stance with the media, which has
influenced Lopez to set some boundaries with interviewers.
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Scientology
It was reported that Lopez and Anthony were taking professional business
meetings at the Church of Scientology Celebrity Centre in Hollywood,
California, in late 2006. It was also rumored that Lopez and Anthony became
Scientologists during that period with the help of Angelo Pagan, the husband
of "King of Queens" actress and Scientologist Leah Remini. Just prior to
those reports, Lopez said to NBC, "I'm not a Scientologist, I was raised
Catholic. But it's funny the way people come at it. To me it's so strange.
These are some of the best people I've ever met in my life." She added, "My
dad has been a Scientologist for 20 years. He's the best man that I know in
my life and so, it's weird to me that people want to paint it in a negative
way."
Pregnancy and birth of twins
On the last night of their "En Concierto" tour November 7, 2007, before a
crowd of fans, Lopez confirmed she was expecting her first child with
husband Marc Anthony. The announcement ended months of speculation over the
pregnancy. Her father later confirmed on February 5, 2008, she was expecting
twins. Lopez gave birth on February 22, 2008 to fraternal twins, a girl
and a boy, Emme Marbiel Muñiz, and Maximilian "Max" David Muñiz. The twins
were introduced in the March 11, 2008 issue of People magazine for which the
magazine paid $6 million.
Human rights advocacy
In May 2001, Lopez attended a White House benefit for UNICEF, where she
assisted magician David Copperfield with an illusion which gave the
appearance that she had been sawed into six pieces.
On February 14, 2007, Lopez received the Artists for Amnesty International
award "in recognition of her work as producer and star of Bordertown, a film
exposing the ongoing murders of hundreds of women in the border city of
Juárez, Mexico". Nobel Peace Prize winner José Ramos-Horta presented the
award to Lopez at the Berlin International Film Festival. She also received
special recognition and thanks from Norma Andrade, co-founder of Nuestras
Hijas de Regreso a Casa A.C. ("May Our Daughters Return Home, Civil
Association"), an organization consisting of mothers and families of the
murdered women of Juárez.
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