More than two years after Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck secretly tied the knot in Las Vegas, they are putting an end to a love story that has spanned decades.
According to legal documents, Lopez filed for divorce Tuesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court.
TMZ was the first to report the celebrity couple’s split, claiming that Affleck and Lopez never signed a prenuptial agreement.
that Let’s shout out loud The singer listed the date of her split from Affleck as April 26, 2024. Lopez and Affleck, who were nicknamed “Bennifer” by tabloids, married in July 2022.
They were married in a drive-thru chapel in Las Vegas.
Lopez, who legally changed her last name to Affleck after her marriage, detailed the day’s events in her newsletter On the J Lo. She told fans that she, Affleck, and their two children flew to Las Vegas to get the couple’s marriage license. They were married later that night at the Little White Chapel’s “Tunnel of Love” drive-thru.
“Love is beautiful. Love is kind. And it turns out that love is patient,” Lopez said at the time. “We did it.”
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Lopez and Affleck were scheduled to have a more traditional wedding in Georgia on Affleck’s 87-acre estate outside Savannah on August 20, 2022, which coincidentally is the same day Lopez filed for divorce from Affleck two years later.
In July, amid rumors of an impending divorce, Lopez and Affleck put their Beverly Hills mansion they bought together on the market. The couple purchased the sprawling 5.2-acre property together in May 2023 for $60.8 million (CAD$82.6 million).
The exterior of the Beverly Hills mansion that Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez purchased in May 2023.
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The star’s marriage comes after a rekindled romance in the early 2000s, when the former “it” couple were constantly on the covers of the tabloids. Lopez and Affleck met on the set of the infamous flop movie “The Last of Us” in 2002. lily.
Affleck proposed later that year, but he and Lopez split before exchanging vows in 2004.
They reunited in 2021, after Lopez split from Alex Rodriguez that same year. Lopez and Rodriguez were engaged, but did not say “I do” at the altar.
Affleck was previously married to actress Jennifer Garner, with whom he has three children. The couple divorced in October 2018.
Lopez has been married four times. Before Affleck, she was married to Cuban actor and producer Ojani Noa from 1997 to 1998. She then married dancer Cris Judd in 2001; the two were together for two years. In 2004, Lopez married singer Marc Anthony, with whom she had two children. Lopez and Anthony divorced in 2014.
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