LOS ANGELES – Kim Kardashian’s attorney told a judge Friday that the reality star wants her divorce from Kris Humphries to move forward but that the case has been slowed by the NBA player’s hurt feelings and his desire for an annulment.

Humphries’ attorneys said they needed more time to gather information to decide whether to pursue allegations that the couple’s 72-day marriage was a fraud. Proving the allegations would likely require a trial, which Kardashian’s attorney Laura Wasser said could prove costly to her estranged husband.

The couple was married last summer in a lavish, star-studded and televised ceremony, but Kardashian filed for divorce on Oct. 31. Humphries responded a month later asking for an annulment, claiming the couple’s nuptials were based on a fraud.

“I feel that (Humphries’) personal feelings and maybe some media drive is keeping this case alive,” Wasser said. She said the couple is eligible for a divorce since it has been more than six months since Kardashian filed her petition.

“Certainly, they’ve been separated longer than they’ve been married,” Wasser said.

She said if the case goes to trial and Kardashian wins, she will ask that Humphries pay her hefty legal fees. Currently, Kardashian wants each side to pay their own fees.

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The comments came during a routine hearing Friday in which a judge allowed Humphries’ Minnesota attorney, Lee Hutton, to take part in the case.

Humphries’ Los Angeles-based attorney Marshall Waller said they had to wait for the motion to be approved but that he expects to seek key information and the depositions of essential witnesses in the next few weeks.

Superior Court Judge Stephen Moloney told both sides to return to court on Aug. 15 for a status hearing.

Kardashian is the star of the E! Entertainment Television series “Keeping Up with the Kardashians,” which was E! Entertainment Television’s top-rated show, averaging more than three million viewers in its sixth season.

Humphries, a power forward who has played with the New Jersey Nets, is an unrestricted free agent.

Green says he’ll stick with ‘The Voice’

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LOS ANGELES – Cee Lo Green says he’ll stick with “The Voice” singing competition show “as long as it’s fresh.”

The rapper turned singer joined the show last year as coach and judge alongside Christina Aguilera, Blake Shelton and Adam Levine.

“I would like to think that we were irreplaceable, you know what I’m saying?” he said in an interview. “But the truth of the matter is, we’re still working-class artists and artists can be very fickle. …. I would like to be here as long as it’s fresh and new and exciting and fun for me.”

Green, 37, said he expects that NBC has plans in place should any of the judges decide to leave.

Boy suspended for reciting lyrics

AURORA, Colo. – A 6-year-old boy was suspended from his suburban Denver school for three days after school officials said he told a girl “I’m sexy and I know it,” a line from a popular song.

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D’Avonte Meadows, a first-grader at Sable Elementary School in Aurora, is accused of sexual harassment and disrupting other students, according to a letter sent to his mother Wednesday.

D’Avonte’s mother, Stephanie Meadows, said her son doesn’t know the meaning of sexual harassment and it’s the second time he has gotten in trouble for quoting “Sexy and I Know It.” The song by the duo LMFAO was at the top of Billboard’s Hot 100 chart for two weeks in January. “I’m just, I’m floored,” Stephanie Meadows told KMGH-TV. “They’re going to look at him like he’s a pervert. And it’s like, that’s not fair to him.”

Buckner baseball fetches $418,250

DALLAS – The baseball that rolled through the legs of Boston Red Sox first baseman Bill Buckner in the 1986 World Series has been sold at auction for $418,250.

Heritage Auctions says the ball was sold Friday in Dallas to a buyer who wants to remain anonymous.

Buckner’s error in Game 6 allowed the New York Mets to rally with two outs in the 10th inning. The Mets went on to win the series.


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