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Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony call it quits
NEW YORK
Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony’s marriage has hit a sour note: The superstar couple announced Friday they are breaking up. The two married in 2004 and have 3-year-old twins, Max and Emme.
In a Friday statement to The Associated Press from Lopez’s publicist, the pair called the decision to end their marriage a “very difficult decision.”
They said they have come to an “amicable decision” on all matters and asked for privacy. It’s Lopez’s third marriage and Anthony’s second.
Man pleads not guilty in Hilton stalking case
LOS ANGELES
A man accused of stalking Paris Hilton has pleaded not guilty to felony charges that could land him in jail for five years.
City News Service says 36-year-old James Rainford entered pleas Friday in Los Angeles to two felony stalking charges and three misdemeanor counts of disobeying a court order to stay away from the socialite.
Rainford was arrested on the Fourth of July after paparazzi recognized him outside Hilton’s Malibu home. It was his third arrest in less than a year related to Hilton.
Rainford is jailed on $150,000 bail. Jail records don’t indicate whether he has an attorney.
Rainford was released from jail in May after serving time for misdemeanor battery. Authorities say he had tried to grab Hilton’s then-boyfriend outside a courthouse earlier this year.
Richard Hatch wants sentence thrown out
PROVIDENCE, R.I.
Reality-TV star Richard Hatch asked a federal appeals court Thursday to throw out a nine-month prison sentence handed down earlier this year for failing to pay taxes on the $1 million he won on the first season of the hit CBS show “Survivor.”
In a brief filed in the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston, Hatch’s attorney says a lower court overlooked several factors in finding that he violated the terms of his supervised release by failing to file amended tax returns for 2000 and 2001.
Associated Press