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"Jennifer Lopez is reportedly countersuing her former chauffeur for at least $20 million in damages. Hakob Manoukian, who began working for Lopez and her ex-husband Marc Anthony in 2005, filed a suit in April alleging that he was humiliated by Lopez&amp;#039;s manager Benny Medina and was demoted at Medina&amp;#039;s request.  However, Lopez has now countersued the driver for extortion and defamation, E! Online reports. The former American Idol judge claims in court documents that Manoukian threatened to release &amp;quot;disruptive and potentially damaging&amp;quot; details and &amp;quot;sensitive and personal information that he had allegedly overheard&amp;quot; about her unless she paid him $2.8m (\u00C2\u00A31.79m). Lopez claims that Manoukian signed a confidentiality agreement to work for her. She also denies the allegations that he was treated poorly by Medina and not paid the agreed salary. The singer adds that Manoukian became &amp;quot;hostile and angry&amp;quot; towards Medina after a disagreement and &amp;quot;plotted to retaliate&amp;quot; against him. &amp;quot;In the furtherance of this plot, he abruptly terminated his employment with Ms Lopez and began to threaten her,&amp;quot; the court documents state.  Lopez is now thought to be seeking $20m (\u00C2\u00A312.8m) in damages for &amp;quot;irreparable injury&amp;quot;, in addition to exemplary and punitive damages, court costs and &amp;quot;injunctive relief&amp;quot; to stop Manoukian from harassing her further. Earlier this month, reports claimed that Lopez and her partner Casper Smart - who are said to be &amp;quot;cooling&amp;quot; their romance - were planning to sue over a claim that Smart attended a &amp;#039;gay sex club&amp;#039;. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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