Federline attorney: There is no Federline-Spears sex tape

Los Angeles – There is no Kevin Federline-Britney Spears sex tape, Federline’s lawyer said Tuesday.

Attorney Mark Vincent Kaplan issued the statement in response to “reports rampant in the press and media regarding rumors of alleged attempts by Kevin Federline” to sell a purported sex video.

“While this is endemic of countless false and inaccurate stories that have made their way into the media regarding Kevin, his marriage to Britney and the divorce proceedings which they are presently going through, I want to put this issue to rest once and for all,” Kaplan said.

“There is not a sex video of Kevin and Britney in existence. It goes without saying that the stories of Kevin attempting to sell such a video are patently false and anyone who reports that they have information of such attempts is either lying or reporting the lie of someone else,” he said.

The couple married in 2004, and Spears, 24, filed for divorce this month. Federline, 28, has counter-filed, seeking custody of their two children.

Simpson story likely to turn up on Internet

New York – The O.J. Simpson project is dead, but the book and the TV interview could turn up in bootleg form in this age of YouTube and eBay, when scandalous information seldom stays secret for long.

News Corp., owner of Fox Broadcasting and publisher HarperCollins, called off Simpson’s “confession” Monday after a public outcry that the project was sick and exploitive.

A two-part interview had been scheduled to air Nov. 27 and Nov. 29 on Fox, with the book, “If I Did It,” to follow on Nov. 30.

HarperCollins spokeswoman Erin Crum said some copies had already been shipped to stores but would be recalled, and all copies would be destroyed. But with the interview already taped, and truckloads of books either sitting in warehouses or headed back to the publisher, Simpson’s supposedly hypothetical account of how he would have committed the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman appears all but certain to surface.

The Simpson saga took another twist Tuesday when his former sister-in-law, Denise Brown, accused News Corp. of trying to buy her family’s silence for millions of dollars.

A News Corp. spokesman confirmed that the company had conversations with representatives of the Brown and Goldman families over the past week and said that they were offered all profits from the book and TV show, but he denied it was hush money.

“There were no strings attached,” News Corp. spokesman Andrew Butcher said.

Honeymoon may be soggy

Colombo, Sri Lanka – Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have arrived in the Indian Ocean island chain of the Maldives, a government official has said.

“Yes, they are here, I can confirm that,” chief government spokesman Mohamed Hussain Shareef told The Associated Press by phone Tuesday from the capital, Male. “They have gone to one of the islands, but this is very, very secret.”

Cruise, 44, and Holmes, 27, arrived in the Maldives by private jet, the local Haveeru newspaper said, citing witnesses.

They may face bad weather.

“It has been raining heavily the past week and there are predictions of scattered showers,” Shareef said. “However, right now there is sunshine.”