Sex tape shown at R. Kelly trial

Prosecutors played the sex tape at the center of R. Kelly's child pornography trial in Chicago yesterday, just hours after opening statements in which they accused the R&B singer of choreographing and starring in the footage with an underage girl. The jurors, who had been taking feverish notes during the statements, sat motionless while the video played. Their eyes were fixed on a 4-by-4-foot monitor near the jurors' box; in the courtroom, the lights were dimmed and blinds drawn across windows. A grim-looking Kelly, 41, appeared to watch the entire footage intently on a monitor on the defense table. He occasionally rocked in his chair and rested his chin in his hand. (AP)

A New York college student sued Lindsay Lohan, 21, claiming the actress took her mink coat without permission and kept it for more than two weeks. Maria Markova, 22, said in a lawsuit that Lohan took the $12,000 golden sheared mink coat while in the 1 Oak nightclub Jan. 26. Markova next saw her coat on Lohan in a photo in OK! magazine. Markova got the coat back on Feb. 14. (AP)

Rapper Nas's controversially named new album has been changed and will be released July 1. "It's important to me that this album gets to the fans," he said. The rapper came under fire for using a racial slur as the album's title, which now reportedly will be simply "Nas." (Billboard)

Actress Jessica Alba, who is pregnant with her first child, married long time boyfriend Cash Warren on Monday, her publicist said. Alba, 27, best-known for her roles in TV's "Dark Angel" and the movie "Fantastic Four," announced she was engaged last year. The baby is expected in the early summer. (Reuters) . . . Jermaine Jackson and his wife, Alejandra, have finalized their divorce, according to papers filed in Los Angeles. (AP)

"No 'scrapping' is going on, simply a few retakes, especially since all those recordings were leaked to the Net." - Courtney Love, on a report she has scrapped work on her next album