Man guilty of Lopez-Anthony wedding video plot

Jennifer Lopez (left) and Marc Anthony. Picture / Reuters

NEW YORK - A New Jersey man has pleaded guilty to stealing a video of the wedding of singers Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez and then trying to extort US$1 ($1.61) million from the couple to return it.

The video of the couple's June 2004 wedding was saved on Anthony's laptop computer and was in the singer's Cadillac Escalade when the vehicle was stolen last October in Linden, New Jersey.

Tito Moses, 31, admitted in Manhattan State Supreme Court yesterday that he and an accomplice hatched a plot to extort the million dollars from the celebrity couple in exchange for the stolen wedding video.

Moses thought he was dealing with a Lopez-Anthony representative but in reality he was talking with an undercover detective, prosecutors said.

In return for his plea, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Bonnie Wittner promised Moses a sentence of up to three years in state prison. He will be formally sentenced on Oct. 27.

Moses has been charged in New Jersey with stealing the Escalade.

The case against Moses' co-defendant, Steven Wortman, 49, a retired postal worker, is pending.

- REUTERS