JLo, Marc Anthony and Floyd, the German shepherd guard dog (Courtesy www.celebrities.au)

A flight attendant on a private jet carrying salsero Marc Anthony and his wife, singer/actress Jennifer Lopez, was attacked by the couple’s guard dog in flight because she was carrying eating utensils to their table.

So the flight attendant, Lisa Wilson, is suing the couple in a Brooklyn, N.Y., court over the 2006 attack in a Gulfstream jet. Wilson says the snarling dog lunged and head-butted her, causing her to fall and injure her back.

For her pain and suffering, she is demanding $5 million.

According to the New York Daily News, the German shepherd, Floyd, received military-style training and has a thing for sharp objects being handled near the Dolphins’ minority owner Anthony. According to the court documents, the glamorous couple’s personal chef also has been harassed by the pooch.

An animal behavior expert hired by Wilson’s legal team said the dog is dangerous and the famous couple knew it. Early in the flight, Anthony warned Wilson not to look at Floyd in the eyes and call his name when she wanted to pass by.

“The dog was obviously dangerous and we will prove at trial that it was only a matter of time before he hurt someone,” Wilson’s lawyer, William Cafaro, told the News.

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It’s that time of year. Millionaires at the helm of mega-yachts pulled into town for their yearly rendez-vous at Rybovich Marina on West Palm Beach’s north side. Three dozen 100-footers will be docked through the weekend, and their owners are paying up to $20,000 to be there. That money is going to the Boys and Girls Club of Broward County. The event includes, among plenty parties, a yacht hop and Saturday’s gala at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, featuring a concert by disco diva Donna Summer. Parts of the event are open to the public. To see who’s there, check out Palm Beach Post lensman Ray Graham’s photos of last night welcome party:

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With the NFL more than a month behind last year in announcing the halftime entertainment for the Feb. 7 Super Bowl at Land Shark Stadium, rumors are rampant that the league is considering one of two solutions.

The first, according to a source close to the host committee, is that the Miami Dolphins’ new co-owners — salsero Marc Anthony, hip-hopper Jennifer Lopez and Latin star Gloria Estefan — would combine forces for one of the world’s most-watched halftime shows. It’s unclear whether Fergie of the Black Eyed Peas, who agreed to purchase a small share of the team but hasn’t paid for it yet, would participate.

“Gloria appeared in six Super Bowls,” said Estefan publicist, David Naranjo. “She enjoys helping showcase the city. But I haven’t heard anything about her doing it again.”

The Who's Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend

The other avenue, according to a report in Sports Illustrated’s online version, it that the British band The Who may be thisclose from receiving the nod. While the band’s music is going through a renewal of sorts with the soundtracks of TV series like CSI: Miami, The Who aren’t touring and have no new CD to sell. The band’s frontman, Roger Daltrey, is in the states on the tail end of a solo tour. He appears at the Seminole Hard Rock and Casino in Hollywood on Nov. 29.

“The committee feels that it’s strange that the NFL hasn’t made an announcement yet,” the source said. “Last year, they did it (it was Bruce Springsteen) during a Sunday night game in September. “

At the NFL headquarters in New York, a spokeswoman said there’s no timeline to announce halftime shows.

“When we have something to announce, we will,” she said.

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Fergie: Adult diapers, please!

Under congressional fire: Miami Dolphins’ celebrity owners!

U.S. Rep. Steve King, a Republican from the boondocks — I mean Iowa — asked NFL Commish Roger Goodell a pertinent question in a Capitol Hill hearing yesterday.

If Palm Beacher Rush Limbaugh is too offensive to be a part-owner of the St. Louis Rams, then why are Fergie and singer/actress Jennifer Lopez?

King, who hijacked a hearing about football injuries, said: “I don’t think anything that Rush Limbaugh said was offensive, but with Fergie and with J-Lo, they have, between the two of them, alleged that the CIA are terrorists and liars. They’ve promoted sexual abuse of women. They’ve used the N-word, verbal pornography, recreational drug use, etc. And they are owners of the Dolphins. And it’s also ironic that Fergie was approved as an owner on the very day that you made your statement on Rush Limbaugh.”

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And King left out a few things.

He didn’t seem to remember the time when Fergie was so drunk she peed on herself during a show. And he left out Dolphins part-owner Serena Williams, the Palm Beach Gardens tennis titan whose obscene tirade at a line judge at this year’s U.S. Open was seen by a worldwide audience.

And he’s got the JLo thing wrong. Her hubby, salsero Marc Anthony, is an owner — JLo isn’t listed on the team’s media guide as one. She does accompany him to games and often ends up in game photos.

As for Fergie, the sale of her shares into the team is pending.

Still, Goodell’s response was little else than a typical D.C. topic-shifting ploy. He talked about Donovan McNabb, the Philadelphia Eagles QB whom Limbaugh once called “overrated.”

On his Web site Wednesday, Limbaugh called Goodell a “total weasel.”

King ended his questioning by telling Goodell to listen to JLo and Fergie songs and report back.

“I’d ask you to go back and take a look at the owners of the Dolphins, and . . . the songs that they recorded, review those lyrics, and I’ll provide some of those lyric songs to you,” he said, “and I’ll ask you to come back and respond to that question after the hearing as to whether you’ll put the same scrutiny on those owners who have really shined a negative light on the NFL as opposed to somebody that the NFL apparently just doesn’t agree with his politics.”

The Limbaugh controversy erupted earlier this month when star conservative radio talker was dropped from a group of investors who bid on the hapless Rams. Goodell spoke against Limbaugh becoming an investor, as did players and current team owners — mostly for things Limbaugh may or may not have said concerning race.

Meanwhile Dolphins majority owner Stephen M. Ross, whose Palm Beach home is two miles south of Rush’s, has stocked the team’s ownership with celebrities. The roster includes tennis star Venus Williams, Serena’s sister, and Miami singer Gloria Estefan and husband Emilio. The Dolphins signed a commercial deal with Palm Beach troubadour Jimmy Buffett and had hip-hopper T-Pain redo the team’s fight song.

Said Dolphins spokesman Harvey Greene: “We have no comment, except to reaffirm that our limited partners were approved through the appropriate process by the NFL.”

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American Idol star Kris Allen chills backstage on the parking lot of Land Shark Stadium on Sunday afternoon. Minutes later, Allen debuted three tracks from his upcoming album as NFL fans gathered for the Miami Dolphins’ loss to the New Orleans Saints. Strange venue, but Allen, winner of the Fox show’s eighth season, did Before We Come Undone, Written All Over My Face and Can’t Stay Away. The football fans’ favorite: A cover from Britney Spears‘ Hit Me Baby One More Time.

Salsa star and Miami Dolphins part owner Marc Anthony tries to make it discreet as he kisses wife Jennifer Lopez on Monday during the game against the stinking New York Jets. More pictures of couple in their stadium suite in the gallery below.

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Anthony sings the national anthem Monday night

30 Rock cutie Katrina Bowden just couldn’t stay incognito for too long Sunday in Miami Beach. Page2Live’s paparazzo recognized her as soon as the 20-year-old siren, who plays the sexy secretary of Tina Fey’s character on the NBC sitcom, came out of the ocean near the Fontainebleau Resort. And like her Cerie on the show, it seems Bowden was wearing something that was too small for her (See below). Bowden, who’s here to celebrate her 21st b’day, eventually made it to the Dolphins’ game against the Buffalo Bills later Sunday, dressed appropriately.

Dolphins Coach Tony Sparano with wife Jeanette (Michele Sandberg/Special to Page2Live)

Dolphins coach Tony Sparano might be feeling the pressure of a winless season so far, but he hasn’t lost sight of what’s really important. Holding wife Jeanette’s hand, Sparano Tuesday announced that Sunday’s game against the Buffalo Bills at Land Shark would be used to promote breast cancer awareness.

The players will be wearing pink cleats, wristbands, gloves, sideline caps, helmet decals and captains’ patches. Coaches are planning to wear pink caps and pink ribbon pins, and there will be pink goal-post padding in the end zone. The move, however, stops short of Major League Baseball, where some teams occasionally play in pink.

Earlier this year, the Fins’ tight ends coach, George DeLeone, lost his wife Roberta to breast cancer.

The Miami Dolphins lost Monday night – but they sure looked glamorous doing it.

There were searchlights. Limos. Celebrities. French champagne. Russian caviar.

The only thing missing was a 10-foot replica of an Oscar.

A year after the team couldn’t attract boldfacers even when they paid them, famous folks descended on the stadium like locusts to see the Fins take on the Indianapolis Colts.

Singers Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez try to work their way through the crowd to enter Land Shark Stadium on Monday night.

The celebs arrived one by one, stepping out of limos and onto an orange carpet where sweaty fans lined up six-deep.

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– Who’d have thunk it!? Black Eyed Peas frontman will.i.am loves the Miami Dolphins so much that he’d put his bod on the line for the team. He posted on his blog this video plea to team owner Stephen Ross to grant him a tryout before the season starts next week. At 5-foot-4 on high heels, however, the self-described “fast” will.i.am may have a hard time finding a position, except maybe kicker. He says he wants to be a punt returner. “Yo, Ross, this ain’t no joke, I wanna play,” will says on the video. The team had no reax to the rapper’s come-ons. A source, meanwhile, tells me Dolphins officials ordered jerseys with Black Eyed Peas hottie Fergie’s name on the back, fueling rumors that the band will play at halftime of the Sept. 21 Monday night home opener.

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– From the Great Beyond, Michael Jackson is pushing real estate prices up by at least 30 percent. Future stiffs have gone wacko for burial plots near Forest Lawn Memorial Park mausoleum where the King of Pop himself was interred last week in Glendale, Calif. Burial plots that went for $7,000 a few weeks ago now are creeping toward $10,000, reports TMZ. Interested in a crypt for two inside Jackson’s mausoleum? Fuhgettaboutit! They’re now trading for $34,000 a piece.

– Hey, A-Rod, got something to tell us? Kate Hudson, the actress galpal of Miami’s New York Yankees superstar Alex Rodriguez, is stepping out with a big fat sparkler on her ring finger. Spies for the New York Daily News spotted her with the bling at a recent Bombers game. Seeing that it took the lovebirds weeks in the spring to admit they were an item, it’ll probably be years for them to confirm they’re engaged.