newsmakers

April 18, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

newsmakers

Jay-Z sues Ortiz

NEW YORK

Jay-Z and a business partner are suing slugger David Ortiz, claiming the Boston Red Sox star named his Dominican nightclub after the hip-hop mogul’s chain of 40/40 nightclubs.

The lawsuit, filed Thursday in a federal court in Manhattan, accuses Ortiz and his sister of naming their Santo Domingo club Forty-Forty in the hopes of trading in on the rapper’s name.

The suit seeks more than $5 million in damages and for Ortiz to forfeit any use of the name.

Jay-Z, a Yankees fan who performed at the team’s World Series victory parade last year, opened his original 40/40 club in Manhattan with business partner Juan Perez in 2003

The 40/40 club’s lawyers also asked the court to block the slugger from using the Forty Forty name on his club’s Web site.

Jay-Z’s 40/40 club is named after the rare feat among ballplayers of hitting 40 homers and stealing 40 bases in one season.

Ortiz is a power hitter who has stolen 10 bases in 13 seasons, but he has hit more than 40 homers three times.

Applegate engaged to wed rocker beau

LOS ANGELES

Christina Applegate is engaged to marry musician Martyn Lenoble.

Applegate’s publicist, Ame Van Iden, said that the couple of two years became betrothed on Valentine’s Day.

This will be the second marriage for both the actress and the Dutch rocker. No wedding date has been set.

Applegate’s recent credits include TV’s “Samantha Who?” and the movie “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel.” She is set to appear with Drew Barrymore and Justin Long in the film “Going the Distance,” due this summer.

Lenoble is a founding member of the rock group Porno for Pyros.

Actor Glover, 11 others arrested in Maryland

GAITHERSBURG, Md.

Actor Danny Glover and 11 others have been arrested during a labor-union protest at the Maryland headquarters of a food service company.

Montgomery County police spokesman Capt. Paul Starks says Glover and others stepped past yellow police tape and were asked to step back three times at Sodexo headquarters. When they refused, Starks says officers arrested them.

The dozen were issued citations for trespassing and let go. Starks says they face a $1,000 fine or 90 days in jail.

The Service Employees International Union was protesting what it calls Sodexo’s unfair and illegal treatment of workers. Sodexo says the union was spreading misinformation.