It seems like the judges from American Idol or in a competition of their own. It’s to see who can rake in the biggest paycheck.

Jennifer Lopez is currently in negotiations to bring home a 20 million dollar paycheck to join the cast for another season. Her fellow judge Steven Tyler wants to make sure he is getting a piece of the pie too.

“J.Lo’s management is close to brokering her a huge deal to come back to the panel for at least one more season, and but the side effect is that it means her follow judges also want more money,” a source told the NY Post.

Steven Tyler has a two-year deal worth $10 million, but his management has asked for more money. “They argue he was just as sensational and as popular on the panel as Jennifer. But, on the other side, show bosses argue he’s tied into a deal and has to stick to it. However, it’s hoped they can come to a compromise to keep Steven happy, because the producers love him,” the source told the paper.

Jennifer and Tyler were added to the panel when Simon Cowell left the hit show. Randy Jackson still remains as the only original judge.

American Idol will return to Fox for another season in January.

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Jennifer Lopez is ready to move on, Marc Anthony – notsamuch.

Although Lopez has joyously embraced life as a single working mom since the couple announced the end of their seven-year marriage nearly three weeks ago, Anthony is struggling and scrambling big-time, an insider tells the new Us Weekly, out now.

And the Latin crooner sometimes takes it out on his future ex-wife. “His mood shifts from blaming her to begging her to take him back to telling her she is destroying his life,” the Lopez source says.

And as the couple hash out the details of an impending divorce, “he’s being difficult on every little point…He wants to prolong things so she reconsiders,” the insider says.

And while volatile Anthony has been “hard for Jennifer to take,” the singer, actress , designer and American Idol judge has stuck to her resolve to break free — and she’s loving every minute.

“She is very happy,” another pal tells Us. “She is surrounded by love.”

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Jennifer Lopez is speaking out on the end of her seven year marriage to singer Marc Anthony.

Just two weeks after Lopez and Anthony announced their split. Jennifer tells her side to Vanity Fair magazine.

“That was my biggest dream, and I really worked hard at it. We both did,” Lopez, 42, says of her failed union with Anthony, also 42.

Continues the singer, actress, designer and American Idol judge: “Sometimes it doesn’t work–and that’s sad. But I remain an eternal optimist about love. I believe in love.”

It was the third marriage for Lopez and the second for singer Anthony; the couple share 3-year-old twins Max and Emme.

Will she try again at love? You bet. “It’s still my biggest dream,” she says. “I am positive–determined to move forward with my life, bring up my babies, and do the best job I can as a mother, entertainer, and person. I now look forward to new challenges. I feel strong.”

Adds the star, whose pre-Anthony loves famously included P. Diddy, Ben Affleck and others: “I’m a hopeless romantic and passionate person when it comes to love.”

Although she doesn’t get into specific about her rocky romance with Anthony , whom multiple insiders have described as frequently controlling and jealous, the single-again Lopez sounds triumphant. “It’s not that I didn’t love myself before,” she confides.

“Sometimes we don’t realize that we are compromising ourselves. To understand that a person is not good for you, or that that person is not treating you in the right way, or that he is not doing the right thing for himself–if I stay, then I am not doing the right thing for me. I love myself enough to walk away from that now,” she declares.

But things are not bitter with Anthony, she insists.

“I will always respect Marc as a singer and performer,” she says. “We actually work great together, and he was always very supportive. Together we could make magic-—and we did. He will always be in our lives. He will always hold a special place in my heart as the father of my children.”

I don’t know who was at fault, but I would think both of them would be hard to live with. Divas!

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Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony announced their split last Friday, but the duo came close to parting ways two years ago because of Anthony’s fling with a flight attendant.

In the new Us Weekly, a source says that Anthony hooked up with a flight attendant he met aboard a private plane in 2009.

“Marc and Jennifer almost split up over it,” the source tells Us of the couple.

Seconds another insider: “Jennifer was going to leave him then, but Marc begged her to stay. They went to marriage counseling and she decided to give it another shot. He was someone she truly loved.”

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Although Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck famously called off their engagement and 18-month romance in January 2004, the actor was happy to help as his ex’s 7-year marriage to Marc Anthony was falling apart.

Guadalupe Lopez, the singer-actress’s mother (and plus-one at the July 9 BAFTA bash with the royals in Hollywood), sought Affleck’s advice on July 12, multiple sources confirm in the new Us Weekly, out Wednesday. “Guadalupe reached out to Ben over email. She wanted advice for Jennifer,” reveals a source.

“She always liked and trusted him. [Ben] replied back on email, wished her well and offered what he could,” the source says of Affleck, 38, now happily married with two daughters to Jennifer Garner. (Lopez, now 41, wed Latin crooner Anthony, 42, just months after she and Affleck split.)

Three days after that secret email exchange with Affleck, Lopez and Anthony announced the end of their union in a joint statement. “It was a very bad marriage, and Jennifer got the courage to end things,” an insider says, adding, “[Marc] was a terrible husband.”

At issue: Anthony’s raging jealousy over Lopez’s career, his compulsion to control everything from her business endeavors and even her famous wardrobe, and, according to multiple sources, at least one extra-marital affair in 2009.

And despite her ultra-glamourous, ultra-confident persona in the public eye, Lopez “actually has low self-esteem,” one pal explains. “And Marc really played into that insecurity. That’s why she put up with his abuse for such a long time.”

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