Anthony won't confirm J. Lo marriage
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-06-09 08:42

Saying his personal life is off-limits, singer Marc Anthony refused to confirm Tuesday whether he's married to Jennifer Lopez.

Marc Anthony

During an appearance on NBC's "Today" show, co-host Matt Lauer asked the Latin singer how he'd spent his weekend.

"I see where you're going with this, and I'm going to preface it with just saying -- y'all know I don't talk about my personal life," Anthony said.

Lauer replied: "So, I -- do I need to congratulate you?"

"Yeah, I have two albums coming out, man. Absolutely. And I would appreciate it," the 34-year-old singer said.

Anthony, who performed in Rockefeller Plaza, was wearing what appeared to be a wedding band on his left hand.

When Lauer continued to ask whether a wedding had taken place Saturday at Lopez's home in Beverly Hills, Calif., Anthony responded, "That would fall into the category of personal. And that's where I'm going to leave it."

Later that morning, Anthony continued to evade marriage questions from the five women on ABC's "The View."

"I've always been just so private and I've kept what's mine, mine," Anthony said.

"It's still hard for me to understand, what is to me, the morbid fascination with celebrity," he added. "I just want to sing, I want to work on my music, I want to make my movies, that's all I want to do. I understand, you know, the interest but I really don't understand the fascination with it."

Anthony said no matter what may be written about him and Lopez, he plans to "let it go. I have nothing to say about anything. My life is my life, that's the only thing I have."

Rob Shuter, Lopez's publicist for about a year, said Tuesday that he stopped representing her Monday evening. He referred calls to Lopez's manager, Simon Fields.

Asked whether Lopez married over the weekend, Fields told The Associated Press on Tuesday, "No comment. ... We don't comment on her personal life."

Others do have something to say about her personal life, though -- namely the 1,200 people who responded to a recent online poll about Lopez's loves.

When the Trio cable channel and Star magazine asked which relationship they wish had succeeded, 31 percent said Lopez's two-year romance with Sean "P. Diddy" Combs. Nearly 29 percent preferred seeing her with Ben Affleck. Dancer Cris Judd, her second husband, got 27 percent of the vote. Anthony came in last with less than 14 percent.

(The poll, by the way, was part of Trio's monthlong look at "FLOPS!: The Great Failures," which celebrates pop culture phenomena that went horribly wrong.)

This would be the third marriage for the 33-year-old Lopez -- the first was to waiter Ojani Noa in 1997, the second to Judd in 2001. Noa lasted a little more than a year; Judd for nine months.

The singer-actress also was engaged to Affleck, her "Gigli" co-star, but they canceled their plans in September 2003 amid a huge media frenzy and broke up in January.

Anthony divorced former Miss Universe Dayanara Torres last week in the Dominican Republic. They married in 2000 and have two young sons; Anthony also has a daughter from a previous relationship.

His new album, "Amar Sin Mentiras," means "To Love Without Lies" in Spanish.

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