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Jennifer Lopez has more problems after private footage of her and her ex was reportedly stolen.LOS ANGELES - Jenny's sexy home videos are back under lock and key.
A hard drive containing 11 hours of footage from Jennifer Lopez's 1997 honeymoon with ex-husband Ojani Noa - which went missing - was turned over in court Wednesday and placed in a bank safe deposit box, sources told the News.
Ed Meyer, a production partner with ties to Noa, brought the drive to court this morning after he allegedly took it from the home of film producer Claudia Vazquez without her consent, Vazquez's lawyer Cris Armenta said.
"It's now in a secure location. We still have to forensically examine it to make sure Mr. Meyer didn't make copies, but he swore under oath that he did not," Armenta said. "We're going to check that he didn't."
Meyer previously released short snippets of the video and told reporters he was entertaining bids from porn web sites despite a restraining order.
Armenta said the video is not a sex tape.
"There's no nudity. The most revealing scenes show her in a bikini. It's nothing you wouldn't see on the dance floor or in videos," she said. "It's nothing to be overly concerned about."
Lopez, 41, has been fighting to keep the footage private. Now that it's in a safe deposit box, her lawyers will get their first chance to review it, Armenta said.
Noa and Lopez wed in 1997, but their marriage lasted only 11 months.
They signed a confidentiality agreement in 2005, and Lopez used that pact to sue Noa in 2009 over his alleged plan to use the honeymoon footage in a "Borat"-style film about his life as a Cuban immigrant.
Lopez won a restraining order in December 2009 that barred Noa and Meyer from disseminating the footage.
Vazquez, who once dated Noa and bought a license to the video in mid-2009, was not a party to that injunction. She recently won court permission to continue production of a film depicting Noa's life.
A judge clarified Monday that she can't use the video in the film.
"I'm still making my film," Vazquez told the News. "At first I wanted to make a romantic comedy. Now it's going to be a drama too with all these power trips and legal games."
This latest saga isn't the first time Lopez has tried to stop Noa from cashing in on her fame.
She won a $545,000 lawsuit in 2007 that put the kibosh on a tell-all book.
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