Attorney Avenatti: R. Kelly paid $2 million to silence accuser

Jennifer Lopez makes up concert interrupted by power outage

Jennifer Lopez kept her word to fans who were disappointed when a power outage in New York City forced her to postpone her concert Saturday.

Lopez returned to the stage Monday at Madison Square Garden, saying she was going to celebrate “no matter what.” She called it an “amazing night.”

Lopez’s show was cut short on Saturday night when problems at a substation left parts of Manhattan without electricity. The Garden, Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts were all evacuated.

The power outage came on the anniversary of the 1977 New York City outage that left most of the city without power.

Celebrity attorney Michael Avenatti said Monday that R&B singer R. Kelly paid $2 million to keep an accuser in a child pornography case off the witness stand during a 2008 trial that ended with his acquittal on all charges.

“R. Kelly bought his acquittal,” Avenatti said, providing details of what he said has been a yearslong effort by Kelly to prevent his sexual abuse of several girls from becoming public. He said Kelly paid at least one associate $100,000 to hunt down videos of him having sex with a minor that had gone missing.

Avenatti said he represents three people, three parents of victims and three associates of Kelly whom he called “whistleblowers.”

Australian model sentenced for airline flight disturbance

An Australian model was sentenced Monday in Los Angeles to community service and probation for slapping a flight attendant and going on an obscene tirade during a flight, with a federal judge saying he believed she was deeply remorseful and did not deserve fines or prison time.

U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney sentenced Adau Mornyang to three years of probation and 100 hours of community service.

Prosecutors had sought a month in jail for Mornyang. But Carney said he believed she was truly sorry after she tearfully read a statement in court saying she is now receiving treatment for anxiety and depression.