Lopez, first husband reach settlement

Los Angeles – Jennifer Lopez has been awarded nearly $545,000 in a lawsuit against her first husband, Ojani Noa, over his plans to publish a tell-all book claiming she had several affairs.

A court-ordered arbitrator made the decision in April in Lopez’s breach-of-contract lawsuit against Noa, court papers filed Monday indicated. The figure includes only $200,000 in damages, with the rest going for arbitration costs and attorneys’ fees.

Lopez’s lawsuit claimed that Noa had violated a previous lawsuit settlement preventing him from revealing private information about their relationship.

The arbitrator also decided that a permanent injunction should be awarded against Noa that would bar him from “criticizing, denigrating, casting in a negative light or otherwise disparaging or causing disparagement” to the singer-actress.

Noa also would be directed to give Lopez or her attorney all copies of materials related to the book.

The arbitration decision was disclosed Monday when Lopez’s attorney filed papers asking a Superior Court judge to confirm the award. A hearing in the case was scheduled for Sept. 5.

Noa, 31, and Lopez, 39, married in February 1997 and were divorced 11 months later.

Exhaustion makes singer go to hospital

Los Angeles – Amy Winehouse was hospitalized in London Wednesday for “severe exhaustion,” a Universal Music spokeswoman said.

The 23-year-old soul singer was released in the afternoon and advised to “take complete rest,” said Serena Gallagher. Winehouse’s scheduled performances in Norway and Denmark this week have been canceled.

The big-haired singer is scheduled to begin the North American leg of her tour in September.

Jack White becomes father for second time

New York – Jack White and his wife, Karen Elson, are the parents of a baby boy.

The couple’s second child, named Henry Lee White, was born Tuesday, a publicist for the White Stripes frontman said Wednesday.

White and Elson have a 15-month-old daughter, Scarlett Teresa White.

“The new child and his mother are both feeling very healthy and happy,” White’s representative, Chloe Walsh, said in a statement to The Associated Press.

White, 32, married Elson, a 28-year-old model, in 2005. The White Stripes are on a break from their North America tour, which will resume Sept. 13 at the Kiva Auditorium in Albuquerque, N.M.

Amid paternity uproar, ex-Spice Girl marries

Las Vegas – Former Spice Girl Melanie Brown, who gave birth to Eddie Murphy’s daughter in April, married her boyfriend, Stephen Belafonte, in June, according to Clark County marriage records.

Murphy acknowledged his paternity of Brown’s daughter, Angel, last week, one day after the 32-year-old singer took legal action to establish him as the parent.

Belafonte is a movie producer whose recent credits include “Sisters” and “Thank You for Smoking.” Brown was known as Scary Spice when she performed with the Spice Girls, whom she’ll join for the band’s reunion tour in December and January.

A marriage certificate filed with Clark County, which encompasses Las Vegas, lists the date of the couple’s nuptials as June 6. It does not state exactly where they were married.

An e-mail to Brown’s publicist was not immediately returned.

Toni Braxton sued after check bounces

Los Angeles – Toni Braxton has been sued by a wardrobe and costume designer who alleges the Grammy-winning singer wrote him a bad check and still owes him $15,000 for work on a Las Vegas show.

Anthony Franco filed the lawsuit Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court claiming the sultry R&B singer had agreed to pay him $35,000 to design the entire wardrobe for the “Toni Braxton: Revealed” show.

Franco says he received a check, but it was returned for insufficient funds. He alleges Braxton and co-defendant Liberty Entertainment Inc. put a stop-payment on the check.

Franco claims he was eventually paid $20,000, leaving an outstanding balance of $15,000.

Braxton is best known for such hits as “Breathe Again,” “You’re Makin’ Me High” and “Love Shoulda Brought You Home.” She has starred on Broadway in “Aida” and “Beauty and the Beast.”

Braxton’s show at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas began last August.

One tour, two shows

Los Angeles – Miley Cyrus and her alter ego are going on tour.

The “Best of Both Worlds Tour” will feature the 14-year-old singer-actress performing as a solo artist and as Hannah Montana, her Disney Channel character.

She will open the concert with hits from the two “Hannah Montana” soundtracks. After an intermission, she’ll perform material from her June solo debut, “Meet Miley Cyrus.”

The 54-date tour will open Oct. 18 in St. Louis and wrap up in Albany, N.Y., on Jan. 9.

Tickets go on sale Aug. 18.