Simply because we knew this was coming does not make it any much less unhappy to announce: Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck are getting a divorce.
As first reported by TMZ, after which confirmed by way of a number of sources to Individuals, Lopez filed for divorce from Affleck on Tuesday, August 20. The Grammy-nominated singer/dancer filed in Los Angeles County Superior Courtroom and listed the date of separation as April 26, 2024. Individuals stories she filed for divorce herself with out utilizing a lawyer and is technically self-represented, and based on TMZ, they don’t have a prenup.
The previous couple have but to deal with the information themselves on social media or by way of a consultant. Satirically, August 20 marks two years since their wedding ceremony in Georgia.
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Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck lastly made it down the aisle (a number of occasions) in 2022—almost twenty years after calling off their first engagement in 2004.
Nevertheless, the optimistic press got here screeching to a halt when Lopez was noticed home looking in Los Angeles with out Affleck by her facet in Could 14, 2024. Sooner or later later, In Contact reported that Affleck had moved out of their shared dwelling, and that the couple was “headed towards divorce.”
By June, their LA mansion was reportedly put in the marketplace and Lopez had cancelled her world tour to spend extra time with “her youngsters, household, and shut buddies.” Even so, Lopez spent a bulk of the summer time within the Hamptons whereas Affleck remained in Los Angeles, the place he was usually photographed with and with out his wedding ceremony ring.
Whereas many stories have cited Affleck’s distaste for the highlight as the foundation of their issues, one supply instructed Individuals that the pair had “deeper points” than Lopez’s profession. “The concept Ben thinks Jennifer is just too well-known and that he didn’t know what he was moving into with the eye on their marriage isn’t true,” the supply stated in July.
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