Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez in February 2024. (Robyn Beck/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
When Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck finalized their divorce, they took their private belongings with them.
The exes formally ended their marriage on Monday, January 6, in accordance with paperwork obtained by Us Weekly. In doing so, each events “agreed to divide all belongings and liabilities” to keep away from additional litigation and expense.
Lopez, 55, retains all of her private belongings and earnings from their date of separation — April 26, 2024 — in addition to half of their financial institution accounts. Affleck, 52, will get the identical. Per the settlement settlement, they’ll additionally divide their $60 million mansion in Beverly Hills that’s now in the marketplace, however the particular phrases to the settlement are sealed.
Within the divorce, Lopez retains her clothes, jewellery and “miscellaneous private results in her possession, custody or management,” and all belongings that she owns “individually or by entities of which [Lopez] is the only real proprietor, member or shareholder.”
The phrase “Bennifer” may embrace flashbacks to frosted lip gloss and butterfly clips, however every thing comes again in type finally. Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez received again collectively almost 20 years after their romance first took the world by storm. The pair first related in 2002 on the set of the ill-fated Gigli. The film […]
In the meantime, Affleck holds onto his curiosity within the Artists Fairness manufacturing firm that he based with Matt Damon in November 2022. The settlement states that he “shall pay, indemnify and maintain [Lopez] innocent from any and all liabilities, claims, money owed, actions, causes of motion and/or tax liabilities related to” the corporate.
They settled their divorce by way of mediation in September. Lopez requested to drop “Affleck” from her final title and restore her authorized title to Jennifer Lynn Lopez.
The actress filed for divorce from Affleck in August 2024. As an alternative of tapping a lawyer to submit paperwork on her behalf, Lopez submitted it herself on the two-year anniversary of the pair’s Georgia marriage ceremony, regardless of their separation date being months earlier.
On the time, movie star divorce lawyer Chris Melcher prompt in an interview with Us that Lopez’s choice to file sans lawyer was “intentional to ship a message that this is not going to be a battle.” Melcher posited that the duo had probably “labored out most of [the] points earlier than going public with the submitting.”
Lopez and Affleck share an extended historical past. They met on the set of the box-office bomb Gigli in 2001 and received engaged in November 2002. They had been headed to the altar in September 2003, however known as off their marriage ceremony days earlier than the ceremony. They confirmed their break up in January 2004.
Sparks flew anew when the couple — famously referred to as “Bennifer” — reconnected in Could 2021 and have become engaged once more in April 2022. They exchanged vows in Vegas that July and hosted a second ceremony in Georgia the subsequent month.
Lopez was beforehand married to Ojani Noa from 1997 to 1998, Cris Judd from 2001 to 2003 and Marc Anthony — with whom she shares twins Max and Emme — from 2004 to 2014. Affleck, for his half, was married to Jennifer Garner from 2005 to 2018, they usually coparent their three kids, Violet, Seraphina and Samuel.
In Could 2024, rumors of marital troubles started swirling after Lopez and Affleck weren’t seen collectively in public for 47 days. Us quickly confirmed that Affleck had moved out of their dwelling.
A supply completely instructed Us that June that they couldn’t “get on the identical web page [and had] been discussing divorce as an possibility.”
