Tuesday, October 22, 2024, 1:25 p.m.
To a skinny dog, everything is fleas. That is what Jennifer López must be thinking in 2024 in which, in addition to divorcing the person she thought was the love of her life, she has been affected by the Puff Daddy scandal, with whom she had a relationship in the late 90s and the beginning of the 2000s. As if that were not enough, now, her first husband, Ojani Noa, has returned to the fore to insinuate in the program ‘Despierta América’ that the end of their fleeting marriage was due to infidelity on the part of the star of music with the controversial rapper.
Jennifer López and Ojani Noa met and fell madly in love in Miami where he was a waiter at Gloria Estefan’s Lario’s restaurant while trying to build a career as a model. At that time, Jennifer was filming the movie ‘Blood and wine’. Their relationship was as intense as it was fleeting. They married in February 1997 and eleven months later, January 1998, they separated. In fact, on more than one occasion, the singer and actress has assessed that this and her second wedding with dancer Chris Judd, which also lasted only a few months, “do not count” in her personal calculation since she was very young at the time.
The breakup came without further scandals and neither of them revealed the reason for their divorce. Soon, the singer of ‘El Anillo Pa When’ began a relationship with Puff Daddy, with whom she had previously begun her professional relationship since the rapper was the producer of several songs on her first album. A turbulent romance that lasted two years, between 1999 and 2001, during which Jennifer was detained when she was involved in a shooting during a party that left several people injured. Despite the media impact, Noa did not speak out then and it has been now, after the arrest of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs and the sexual assault complaints, that she has decided to speak.
It all started when the Bronx diva’s first husband published a post with a list of names and surnames that allegedly corresponded to the guest list of one of the parties organized by the rapper in which the sexual crimes were supposedly committed. The name Jennifer Lopez appeared on it. Ojani Noa explained that he did it to prevent them from continuing to ask him about his participation in these controversial meetings, but the truth is that his publication has returned him to the public scene and it was in an interview on the program ‘Despierta América’ where he revealed the due to his divorce from Jennifer López. “I was in Los Angeles opening my restaurant, Conga Room, and she was between Miami and New York working on the album,” he recalled. “In that distance, in that separation, was where the deceptions, the lies, the separation began,” he said.
During his intervention, he also urged his ex-wife “to tell the truth, to tell everything that happened” in relation to the rapper’s parties, but he also asked her for explanations about the complaint that the singer filed against him in 2004: «I would also ask him what I did to him to take me to court, to accuse me, to lie. Why has he created false things about me, he has called companies, television stations, to not give me work. “Why if I haven’t done anything to him,” he said.
A legal war that began when Ojani announced that he planned to publish a book about the time he had shared with the artist, who had already achieved world fame, counting his songs and his films by successes and his partners by failures – by 2004 he had already broken up. with Puff Daddy, had married and separated from Chris Judd and had broken up with Ben Affleck for the first time after getting engaged. The artist’s legal team took action and sued Ojani for wanting to share a private video of the couple. The confrontation lasted five years until, in 2009, the Los Angeles Superior Court blocked the distribution of the audiovisual material.
With the return of her first husband to the scene, a new front opens up for the singer while the Puff Daddy case takes on more gruesome overtones every day, with new allegations of sexual assaults among which is that of a woman who is now 37 years old and that at 13 (which places the alleged events around the year 2000, when Jennifer Lopez and the rapper were together) she was allegedly the victim of a rape by Sean Diddy Combs and another famous man before the eyes of a also known woman, as detailed by lawyer Tonay Buzbee.