Jennifer Lopez is being threatened with a $40-million lawsuit by the owners of a north Cyprus luxury hotel where she recently backed out of a performance, with a statement on her website — since removed — citing “sensitivity to the political realities of the region” in conjunction with the cancellation of the July 24 show.

Lopez on Monday posted a note of apology, stating that she has a “personal policy not to comment on political issues between countries,” blaming her representatives for the cancellation statement and apologizing to any fans who might have been “hurt or offended in any way.” The direct link to the reps’ statement is no longer working.

Speaking from Istanbul on Sunday, the chief executive of the new Cratos Premium Hotel and Casino, which had hired Lopez as the headliner for its official opening night, said the contract “has not been terminated” from the hotel’s point of view.

“The cancellation … is not covered by any clause in the contract she signed with us,” Murat Bozoglu said, according to the Cyprus Mail. He said that if Lopez doesn’t show July 24, his company will file suit, seeking damages because of what it sees as the politically motivated nature of the singer’s decision.

Jennifer Lopez called off a controversial birthday show in the breakaway north of Cyprus, provoking celebrations Friday by Greek Cypriots while Turkish Cypriots denounced the move.

The furor over a luxury hotel inauguration showed how easily bitter rivalry can flare up between Cypriots across the ethnic divide, even as the two sides are locked in fruitless peace talks.

Reports that Lopez would perform at a hotel in the breakaway Turkish north on her 41st birthday this month triggered a Greek Cypriot online campaign pushing for cancellation.

Greek Cypriots viewed Lopez’s July 24 appearance as helping legitimize the Mediterranean island’s violent division. Cyprus was split into a Greek speaking south and a Turkish speaking north in 1974 when Turkey invaded following a coup by supporters of union with Greece.

“Jennifer Lopez would never knowingly support any state, country, institution or regime that was associated with any form of human rights abuse,” the statement said. It added that it was a team decision “that reflects our sensitivity to the political realities of the region.”

A judge granted singer Jennifer Lopez a temporary restraining order barring ex-husband Ojani Noa Tuesday from peddling sexy home videos of their brief marriage.

Noa, 34, was in court without a lawyer and claimed after the ruling it was never his intention to sell the steamy camcorder footage.

He said he planned to make a Borat-style mocumentary about his life as a Cuban immigrant.

“She is destroying my life,” Noa told the Daily News outside court. “This is another proof of her power and money trying to stop me from moving on with my life.”

He swore the home videos were not for sale.

“I’m not making any money from these videos,” he said. “This is about having a closure. It’s my story.”

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Jennifer Lopez will never forget the night she and husband Marc Anthony discovered a lump on daughter Emme’s head. Emme and twin brother Max were only three weeks old at the time.

“We both got very nervous, very very nervous, and I just remember my heart sinking to my feet,” Lopez recalled at last night’s Noche de Ninos gala benefit for Childrens Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA). “I looked at [Marc] and I said, ‘You know if anything happens, I’m not going to be okay, you know that right?’”

Lopez and Anthony rushed Emme to Children’s Hospital, where she underwent a battery of tests, including an MRI. “Luckily in the end,” Lopez said, “she turned out fine.”

Jennifer Lopez has won a cybersquatting case against a U.S. web operator who registered two Internet addresses that used her name for commercial profit, a U.N. agency said on Thursday.

The disputed domain names, jenniferlopez.net and jenniferlopez.org, directed users to a website that generated paid advertising revenues, according to the ruling issued by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO).

A man based in Phoenix, Arizona, named as Jeremiah Tieman, registered both domain names and asserted that he ran primarily a fan site devoted to providing news and information about the star, according to the arbitrator, Williams Towns.

Tieman “registered two domain names that are identical to the complainant’s mark and has used those domain names to attract Internet users to a website from which (he) generates pay-per-click advertising,” Towns said in his ruling.

In the face of reports that the duo have been fighting and are headed for a split, E! News has learned exclusively that J.Lo and her hubby are spending a few days together in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where Anthony is scheduled to perform as part of his ongoing tour.

Rumors are swirling that Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony’s marriage is at the breaking point.

Last week, Lopez appeared at the premiere for “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” without her 8-carat engagement ring, wedding band or even her husband, who is generally photographed by her side.

According to a report in Us magazine, whose cover story claims that the couple’s marriage is in crisis, Marc Anthony was spotted just one week before the premiere without his wedding band.

According to Us, Jennifer is unhappy just being a “Long Island housewife” and blames Anthony for the demise of her career as a box-office star.

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3. Mr. + Mrs. Smith

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6. Don’t Look Now

7. Y Tu Mama Tambien

8. The Last of the Mohicans

9. A Walk on the Moon

10. Before Sunset