Judge backs Lopez over home video row with ex (AFP)

LOS ANGELES (AFP) – A US appeal court sided with superstar Jennifer Lopez in a privacy dispute with her ex-husband over the use of the former couple's home videos.

The singer and actress, who annnounced last week that she was splitting from actor husband Marc Anthony, is seeking $10 million from her ex, Ojani Noa, and writer Ed Meyer.

Lopez says the video footage, which is not of a sexual nature, contains private information about her and her relationship with Noa, whom she married in 1997 but divorced 11 months later.

The 42-year-old, who originally sued Noa and Meyer in November 2009, alleges that the pair plan to make a movie she says is to be called "How I Married Jennifer Lopez: The J. Lo and Ojani Noa Story."

Noa and Meyer deny they are planning a tell-all movie and say it would not have the title stated in the lawsuit.

On Friday, a three-justice panel of the 2nd District Court of Appeal, reversing a lower court's ruling, said Lopez can force Noa and Meyer to resolve the case by arbitration.

The lawsuit was the second Lopez filed against Noa after their divorce: in 2007 she won $545,000 and legal costs for breach of contract over a planned ghostwritten tell-all book.

The book, which was blocked from being published, reportedly recounted how Lopez had had multiple affairs, including with her current husband Marc Anthony whom she is now leaving after seven years of marriage.

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Accused Ohio serial killer, in video, admits sex with victims (Reuters)

CLEVELAND (Reuters) – Jurors in the capital murder trial of accused Ohio serial killer Anthony Sowell watched on Friday as he admitted in a videotaped interrogation to having sex with six women whose remains were found on his property.

In the video, jurors see a Sowell who is at times talkative and animated when discussing his house or relationship with ex-girlfriend Lori Frazier, but who sometimes appears agitated when the subject turns to the remains found in his home.

Sowell, 51, is on trial accused of murdering 11 women and assaulting four others, and could face the death penalty. The bodies of the women were found in and around his house after police raided his home in 2009 to arrest him for rape and assault.

Sowell, in video shown to jurors, never confesses to hurting or killing any of the women found at his house, although he does discuss meeting women and refers to dreams and fantasies as detectives ask him direct questions.

Sowell appears to concentrate as he tries to remember information about the women he met, what they were wearing, and their height and weight. He is seen rocking in his chair grabbing his head and repeating: "I don't remember."

At one point, two detectives show Sowell a diagram outlining where they found six bodies and asking him repeatedly which body was "his first" and which "the last".

"I don't remember actually killing anyone," Sowell says and tells the detectives he can't distinguish the women he dates from the six bodies that had been found by then by police.

"I was separated ... I see flashes," he says.

Throughout the interview, Sowell is asked if the women he describes meeting were "one of the six". Never does Sowell hint that there were more remains to be found on his property.

Sowell admits to having sex with "the six" women but when Smith says, "If we took DNA from you will we find it on them?" Sowell responds, "I don't want to do that."

Sowell talks about meeting women and bringing them to his house. But he never gives any details about what happened to them or how their remains came to be in his house. "Maybe all I did was strangle ... that's what I did," he says.

He says, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry" over and over again as the interrogation goes on late into the night and the detectives offer to give him time to think.

Sowell agrees with detectives that he should help give the families of the victims closure but appears to have problems distinguishing fact from fantasy.

"I'm telling you the best I can," he says.

At one point, Sowell seems to grasp what is going to happen to him, "My life is over," he tells detectives.

(Editing by James B. Kelleher and Cynthia Johnston)

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Authorities release video taken from Garrido home (AP)

PLACERVILLE, Calif. – Prosecutors have released video footage investigators seized from the home of Phillip and Nancy Garrido, who pleaded guilty in the abduction of a California woman held captive for 18 years.

The Contra Costa Times reports that the video was taken between 1989 and 1993, and shows young girls playing at a park as Phillip Garrido tells his wife to discreetly focus the camera on the children. Phillip Garrido, in the video, plays guitar.

Dugard, now 31, was abducted in 1991.

The El Dorado District Attorney's office released the video of the young children Tuesday along with footage showing a parole agent at the couple's Antioch, Calif., home, reportedly during the time Dugard was being held in their backyard.

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Fast Fix: Newt Gingrich is in, but can he win? (VIDEO)

After months of false starts and speculation, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich will make it official today: he’s running for president in 2012.

While Gingrich was once the most recognizable and powerful Republican in the country, he’s now been out of office entirely for 13 years.

He remains a respected figure within the GOP thanks to his policy chops but has to overcome some significant hurdles not the least of which is the fact that he has been married three times.

So, can Gingrich actually win the GOP nomination in 2012?

We explore that question in today’s episode of the “Fast Fix”. And, don’t forget to check out all of our “Fast Fix” videos here. If you have a topic you want to see us break down in “Fast Fix” just email chris.cillizza@wpost.com with it.

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Anthony on video tells parents: We'll be together (AP)

ORLANDO, Fla. – Casey Anthony tearfully told her parents that her 2-year-old daughter Caylee was the "top point" in the family's star and predicted they would all be back together soon, according to jailhouse videos of their meetings while Anthony was jailed in 2008 over the child's disappearance.

Those conversations were shown Friday in an Orlando courtroom on the ninth day of Anthony's trial for first-degree murder. She's accused of killing Caylee, and if convicted could be sentenced to death.

For much of the day Thursday and all Friday morning, jurors watched videotaped jailhouse conversations between Anthony and her family.

The videotapes showed the 25-year-old Anthony crying, chatting and occasionally laughing with her family. Anthony told her visiting parents in July 2008 she ached to come home from jail and see her missing child. She thanked her parents for all they were doing and mentioned Caylee's birthday — which was about a week away at the time of the conversation — to her father.

"We all love that little girl," Anthony said.

Prosecutors said Caylee Anthony died from three pieces of duct tape being placed over her mouth and nose. A defense attorney for the mother claimed the toddler drowned in the family pool and the little girl's grandfather helped cover up the accident.

An autopsy was never able to conclude a cause of death for Caylee.

Casey Anthony waited a month before telling her mother in July 2008 that Caylee had disappeared, and that was only after her parents, George and Cindy Anthony, had recovered a car Casey had been driving, prosecutors said. The vehicle, which the grandparents picked up from a towing lot, had a foul odor inside.

Casey's attorney, Jose Baez, said she was molested by her father as a child, an allegation George Anthony denied on the witness stand. George Anthony also told jurors that Caylee didn't die at his house, and he denied disposing of her body and placing duct tape over her face.

During one of the taped jailhouse visits in 2009, Casey Anthony complimented the family on their efforts to find Caylee, telling them to "keep the faith." Anthony claimed the child had been missing for 31 days before police were called in mid-July 2008.

"You are doing a great job, mom," Casey Anthony said during the visit. "I know it's hard. I know better than anyone right now. You are doing so great."

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