Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez Michael Tran / AFP
Jennifer Lopez has revealed when she and Ben Affleck truly separated after months of hypothesis that the pair’s marriage was on the rocks.
Based on divorce papers filed by Lopez, 55, and obtained by Us Weekly on Tuesday, August 20, the pair formally known as it quits on April 26.
Rumors started to swirl that there was rigidity between Lopez and Affleck, 52, in April, when Individuals reported that the pair had not been photographed collectively publicly for greater than 47 days.
On the time, Lopez and Affleck had not been seen collectively since March 30 in New York Metropolis, after they had been noticed holding fingers. (Their final purple carpet look, in the meantime, occurred again in February for the premiere of Lopez’s This Is Me … Now: A Love Story.)
The phrase “Bennifer” would possibly embody flashbacks to frosted lip gloss and butterfly clips, however all the pieces comes again in model finally. Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez bought again collectively practically 20 years after their romance first took the world by storm. The pair first linked in 2002 on the set of the ill-fated Gigli. The film […]
In Could, Lopez was making ready to function a cohost on the 2024 Met Gala in Manhattan. The singer revealed through Vogue’s official Instagram account on the time that she was struggling to determine what to put on to the occasion.
“I’ve a couple of totally different sketches, I’m nonetheless deciding,” she stated within the April 17 put up that charted her preparation. Within the video, she enthusiastically spoke about her cohosting duties, smiling for the digicam and telling followers that it was a “actual honor” to be chosen by Anna Wintour.
Simply 10 days after the couple privately separated, Lopez attended the Met Gala on her personal on Could 6. Later that month, she additionally attended the Los Angeles and Mexico Metropolis premieres of her Netflix movie, Atlas, sans Affleck.
Jennifer Lopez on the 2024 Met Gala Jamie McCarthy/Getty Photos
On the Mexico Metropolis premiere, Lopez was requested a query about her marriage to which her Atlas costar Simu Liu swiftly shut down. “OK, we’re not doing that,” the actor, 35, responded. “Thanks a lot, guys. We actually recognize it.”
Lopez took a second earlier than addressing the query herself. “You realize higher than that,” she stated.
That very same month, an insider completely advised Us that Lopez and Affleck had been “having points of their marriage,” which allegedly started when Lopez ramped up “work commitments” in preparation for her This Is Me … Reside Tour. (The tour was later canceled by Lopez, who credited desirous to “be together with her youngsters, household and shut mates,” per an electronic mail shared by Reside Nation and her fan e-newsletter on the time.)
The insider additionally famous that Lopez had begun a house in Los Angeles that she claimed was an funding property. A second insider advised Us that Affleck was staying at a spot in Los Angeles, not the couple’s shared property which they bought in March 2022 that ignored the Hollywood Hills.
Ben Affleck isn’t any stranger to a high-profile romance — however not all of them have ended fortunately ever after. Through the years, the Justice League actor has confirmed that he can nonetheless be on good phrases with an ex regardless of breaking apart. In a February 2020 New York Occasions profile, he confirmed his assist […]
In June, a supply confirmed to Us that Lopez and Affleck had been within the strategy of promoting their Los Angeles house. The next month, Lopez celebrated her fifty fifth birthday within the Hamptons with out Affleck.
The timing of Lopez’s Hamptons journey additionally coincided with the estranged couple’s second marriage ceremony anniversary. Neither Lopez or Affleck publicly commented on the July 16 milestone, with Affleck spending the event in Los Angeles.
Rumors of hassle inside Lopez and Affleck’s marriage first surfaced when the pair attended the Grammys collectively in February 2023.
Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck on the 2023 Grammys Kevin Mazur/Getty Photos for The Recording Academy
The then-couple had been filmed on the occasion in what some viewers alleged to be a disagreement. Affleck’s lower than enthused demeanor led to many on-line memes on the time, regardless of Lopez telling followers through Instagram that she had the “finest evening” with “my love, my husband.”
One 12 months later in February 2024, Lopez dropped her ninth studio album, This Is Me … Now, which featured a “cinematic odyssey” sequel to her 2002 album, This Is Me … Then, launched throughout her first romance with Affleck.
Lopez gushed about collaborating with Affleck on the challenge, telling Selection on the time, “I really feel like as a result of Ben and I’ve rediscovered one another — and now that we’re married — I’ve one thing to supply.”
Regardless of Lopez’s reward for Affleck’s collaboration, the Oscar winner expressed that he skilled a sure component of discomfort in being featured in Lopez’s work on the time.
“I did actually discover the sweetness and the poetry and the irony in the truth that it’s the best love story by no means advised,” he stated throughout The Best Love Story By no means Advised, a documentary that explored Lopez’s more moderen album. “Should you’re making a document about it, that appears type of like telling it.”
Lopez and Affleck met on the set of Gigli in 2002 and the pair had been engaged by November that 12 months. Simply days earlier than their scheduled September 2003 marriage ceremony, they known as the marriage off and in January 2004, Lopez and Affleck introduced their breakup.
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez Kevork Djansezian/Getty Photos
However their story didn’t finish there. In Could 2021, Us confirmed that the previous couple had been spending time collectively and in July that 12 months, Lopez and Affleck had been noticed house-hunting collectively.
The pair staged a shock marriage ceremony in Las Vegas on July 16, 2022 and had been married in a second ceremony in Georgia on August 20 that 12 months.
Two years later, to the date, Lopez filed for divorce from Affleck at a court docket in Los Angeles.
