Jennifer Lopez's Ex Denies Extortion Claims  6/29/06

Jennifer Lopez's first husband Ojani Noa has denied the singer/actress' claims he tried to extort $5 million out of her in return for keeping quiet about their failed marriage.

Lopez filed suit against the former waiter in April (06), after Noa announced plans to detail his one-year marriage with the Latina beauty in a tell-all book.

In court documents filed in Los Angeles on Friday (23JUN06), Lopez's attorney Paul Sorrell says, "Sadly, no personal detail is too sacred to be sold by Noa for profit.

"Noa will do anything within his power to make money off his ex-wife - and thinks nothing of willfully breaching the agreement and hurting (Lopez) in the process."

Noa and Lopez signed an agreement last year (05), ruling he could not disparage the Maid in Manhattan star or make money from disclosing intimate details from their brief marriage.

In response, Noa's lawyer Robert Vasquez filed a six-page document last week (ends23JUN06), denying the model's "compliance could be bought for the right price".

According to court documents, Noa is preparing to allege Lopez had "multiple duplicitous sexual affairs" on the set of Anaconda in 1997 and had an affair with her current husband Marc Anthony while he was still married to Dayanara Torres.

Noa says, "I mean, I live in a free country. No? I can express myself. I can talk and say whatever I want to."

Sorrell responds, "Amazingly, Noa also claims that the terms of the agreement are too vague because they do not specify exactly what personal details about (his ex-wife) Noa cannot reveal."

The couple divorced in March 1998 after 13 months of marriage.