Greater than two years after their secretive Las Vegas marriage ceremony, Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck have referred to as it quits on their decades-long love story.
Lopez filed for divorce on Tuesday in Los Angeles County Superior Court docket, in line with authorized paperwork.
TMZ was first to report information of the movie star couple’s divorce. The outlet claimed Affleck and Lopez should not have a prenuptial settlement in place.
The Let’s Get Loud singer listed April 26, 2024, because the date of her separation from Affleck. Lopez and Affleck, nicknamed “Bennifer” within the tabloids, married in July 2022.
They tied the knot in a drive-thru chapel ceremony in Las Vegas.
Lopez, who legally modified her final identify to Affleck after changing into married, detailed the day’s occasions in her e-newsletter, On the J Lo. She advised followers that she, Affleck and her two kids flew to Vegas to acquire the couple’s marriage licence. They have been wed later that evening on the Little White Chapel, within the “tunnel of affection” drive-thru.
“Love is gorgeous. Love is variety. And it seems love is affected person,” Lopez mentioned on the time. “We did it.”
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Lopez and Affleck would additionally go on to additionally host a extra conventional marriage ceremony ceremony in Georgia at Affleck’s 87-acre compound outdoors Savannah on Aug. 20, 2022, which, coincidentally, is identical date Lopez filed for divorce from Affleck two years later.
In July, amid rumours of an impending divorce, Lopez and Affleck put the Beverly Hills mansion they bought collectively up on the market. The couple purchased the sprawling 5.2-acre property collectively in Could 2023 for US$60.8 million (C$82.6 million).
The outside of the Beverly Hills mansion bought by Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez in Could 2023.
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The star’s nuptials got here after they rekindled their flame from the early 2000s, when the previous well-known “it” couple have been persistently on the duvet of tabloids. Lopez and Affleck met in 2002 on the film set of infamous flop Gigli.
Later that yr, Affleck popped the query, although he and Lopez would name it quits in 2004 earlier than exchanging vows.
They reunited in 2021, after Lopez’s cut up from Alex Rodriguez that very same yr. Lopez and Rodriguez have been engaged however by no means mentioned “I do” on the altar.
Affleck has been married as soon as earlier than to actor Jennifer Garner, with whom he shares three kids. The couple divorced in October 2018.
Lopez has been married 4 occasions. Earlier than Affleck, she was married to Cuban actor and producer Ojani Noa from 1997 to 1998. She then married dancer Cris Judd in 2001, and the couple have been collectively for 2 years. In 2004, Lopez married singer Marc Anthony, with whom she shares two kids. Lopez and Anthony divorced in 2014.
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