After two years of marriage, Jennifer Lopez has filed for divorce from Ben Affleck, as confirmed by Us Weekly.
On Tuesday, August 20, Lopez, 55, filed for divorce in a Los Angeles court. Three months before she and 51-year-old Affleck commemorated their two-year wedding anniversary, Lopez entered the date of separation on her record as April 26.
Two years after the split couple’s Georgia marriage celebration, the singer filed the paperwork on her own behalf, bypassing the legal counsel. (Affleck and Lopez celebrated their marriage with family and friends in Georgia after getting married in a secret ceremony in Las Vegas.)
The couple’s divorce was announced after months of rumors that their marriage was failing. After going weeks without being photographed together, Us revealed in May that Affleck had moved out of their Beverly Hills shared house. Affleck and Lopez did not officially recognize their second wedding anniversary in July.
That month, an insider exclusively told Us that the couple was “living separate lives” while they worked through their ups and downs. The insider stated, “Jennifer suggested they just take time to figure it out.”
There was still a “sliver of hope” for the couple’s relationship, a second insider told Us at the time, adding that no formal decision had been made regarding their future together.
Affleck wasn’t at all present when Lopez celebrated her 55th birthday in the Hamptons last month. After reaching the milestone, she posted a heartfelt message on Instagram for her fans.
She stated, “On my birthday, I want you to know that YOU are my biggest gift.” “Apart from my loved ones and friends, you have always supported me during both happy and difficult times. You’re always dependable for me.
Moreover, I want you to know that you can depend on me at all times. I appreciate your kindness, patience, devotion, and most all, your love. Thank you so much for everything.
Affleck and Lopez, one of the most talked-about Hollywood pairs of the twenty-first century, first connected on the Gigli set in 2002 and began dating. After calling off their eventual engagement in 2004, the couple reconnected in 2021, having already been married and divorced a few times.
In April 2022, after their reconciliation, Affleck made another proposal while Lopez was having a bubble bath. Three months later, in Las Vegas, they eloped.
In January 2023, Lopez stated, “We were planning to get married in August in Savannah, the family was going to be there, everyone’s going to be there, and it was so stressful.” “I don’t know whether you people know this, but we were meant to get married 20 years ago a month prior. And then everything kind of fell apart, and this time, I definitely experienced some PTSD and wondered, “Is this happening? “
“One day Ben just said, ‘F–k it, let’s just go to Vegas and get married tonight,'” she stated at the time. “Go to rehearsal [for your show], and when you come back, I’ll have everything set up,” he said.
With just their kids present as witnesses, Lopez and Affleck exchanged vows at The Little White Wedding Chapel in Sin City. Affleck and his former wife Jennifer Garner co-parent Violet, 18, Seraphina, 15, and Samuel, 11, while Lopez and her ex-husband Marc Anthony share twins Max and Emme, 16, and Samuel, 11.
Affleck and the Marry Me actress had a more elaborate wedding in August 2022, a few months later. The earlier this year release of Lopez’s album This Is Me… Now was even inspired by their renewed connection. In February, a behind-the-scenes documentary and corresponding short film were made available.
At one point in the document, Lopez stated:
“I don’t think he’s very comfortable with me doing all of this.” “But he loves me, he understands that I’m an artist, and he will do all in his power to help me because he knows he can’t stop me from writing the words and creating the music that I have written.
He doesn’t want to stop me from doing that, and it will happen. .. However, that does not imply that he finds it easy to be the muse.
In a different scenario, Affleck expressed his pride in Lopez’s independently funded artistic endeavor.
Lopez was previously married three times: in 1997, for an 11-month period, to Ojani Noa; in 2001–2002, to Cris Judd; and in 2004–2014, to Anthony, a 55-year-old man. Between 2019 and 2021, she was also engaged to Alex Rodriguez.
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