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Published:November 10, 2009, 7:02 AM

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Updated: August 21, 2010, 3:01 AM

Jenny wins a block, for now...

Jennifer Lopez won a court order Monday barring her first husband from making their sex life public— at least for a day.

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge James C. Chalfant issued a temporary restraining order blocking distribution of a proposed movie, “The J. Lo and Ojani Noa Story.” The order is in effect until a hearing on whether to extend it is completed. That hearing was scheduled to resume today. “I’m going to fight this,” Noa said of the order.

Lopez sued Noa on Friday for $10 million, claiming he breached a prior confidentiality agreement by intending to sell a movie containing hours of home video footage, including some showing Lopez in sexual situations on their 1997 honeymoon.

Lopez also sued Ed Meyer, Noa’s manager and producer of the proposed movie.

The singer-actress wed Noa in 1997, but their marriage lasted just 11 months. They have fought two previous court battles.

Noa obtained a $125,000 settlement from Lopez in a 2004 suit that claimed she fired him without cause from a job as manager of her now-defunct Pasadena restaurant.

In 2007, Lopez won $545,000 in damages and attorney fees in another lawsuit that blocked Noa from publishing a ghostwritten tell-all book. Lopez claimed Noa had demanded $5 million to keep him from publishing the book.

Lopez, 40, married Marc Antony in 2004 and they have two children. She also was married to choreographer Cris Judd in 2001. The marriage lasted for nine months.

A meatball milestone...

Joey Chestnut maintained his dominance in the sport of competitive eating—and expanded his palate—by winning the first-ever Martorano’s Masters Meatball Eating Championship in Las Vegas.

Chestnut on Sunday gobbled 50 meatballs in 10 minutes at the Rio All Suite Hotel & Casino.

The 6.25 pounds was a world record and earned him the first-place prize of $1,500.

Pat “Deep Dish” Bertoletti finished in second place, just one meatball behind Chestnut.

Sonya Thomas, weighing in at 105 pounds, ate 42 meatballs to finish third. The event was a Major League Eating-sanctioned competition. Chestnut’s resume also includes hot dog, pizza and chicken wing contests.

Spreading Material wealth...

Madonna is following a philanthropical trip to Africa with a stop in Rio to discuss social projects.

Rio de Janeiro Gov. Sergio Cabral says the 51-year-old pop star is looking for ways to lend her help.

Cabral told the Estado de S. Paulo newspaper Monday that he will meet with Madonna along with Brazilian billionaire Eike Batista to talk about possible partnerships.

The singer is expected to visit several poor communities.

Last month, Madonna spent nearly a week in the southern African country of Malawi, where she broke ground on a $15 million academy for girls and visited the orphanage that cared for her son David before she adopted him.

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