Lo's new boss not same as the old boss
Even though Benny Medina thought he was going to get Jennifer Lopez back in the latest round of craziness surrounding the actress/singer and Ben Affleck, this is not the case. Even though Lopez turned up at Medina's birthday party in Hollywood on Saturday night, no one should take this as a sign of anything but the actress dropping in on an old friend.
In fact, Lopez has a new manager, and he's an unexpected player in her continuing saga. Simon Fields, the British movie producer of Lopez's "Shall We Dance?" and other movies such as "Serendipity" and "Town and Country", is now "partnered" with Lopez, according to sources, and advising her on career moves.
Fields has no management experience per se, but he's worked with "Shall We Dance?" director Peter Chelsom for a long time. I'm told that he and Lopez got along so well on the movie's set that a bond formed and turned into a business relationship. That's too bad for Medina, who definitely expected the Affleck phase out would mean a renewed union for him with Lopez.
At the birthday party, by the way, Lopez was put in one room and Mariah Carey - currently Medina's part-time client - was in another. Medina began advising Carey last summer after the 21-year-old son of her long-time manager, Louise McNally, died of an accidental morphine overdose. Medina, says another source, saw an opportunity. "He preys on people when they're weak," says my source.
Lopez, meantime, hit the Golden Globes ceremony with a vengeance. At first she said she wouldn't walk the red carpet, but she changed her mind at the last minute and also asked for several seats for her entourage. The result, I hear, is that many invitations had to be rescinded in order to accommodate her decision. (Fox 411)
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