It’s over. Jennifer Lopez filed for divorce from Ben Affleck after two years of marriage, submitting her paperwork with the courtroom on Tuesday, August 20, Nearer can affirm. The “Ready for Tonight” singer listed their date of separation as April 26, 2024.
The submitting marked an finish to J.Lo and Ben’s fairytale reunion in 2021, adopted by two weddings in the summertime of 2022.
Public tensions began to show when Jennifer, 54, launched a documentary about their love story, The Best Story By no means Advised, in February. It accompanied her album of affection songs about Ben, This Is Me… Now, together with a $20 million self-financed multimedia challenge in regards to the album.
The Prime Video documentary confirmed how the pair weren’t on the identical web page when it got here to residing life within the highlight. Ben, 51, participated, however didn’t appear fully snug with it.
He confessed on digicam, “Getting again collectively, I stated, ‘Hear, one of many issues I don’t need is a relationship on social media.’ Then I form of realized it’s not a good factor to ask. It’s form of, like, you’re going to marry a ship captain and also you go, ‘Effectively, I don’t need the water.’ We’re attempting to study to compromise.”
Jennifer added, “I don’t assume [Ben] could be very snug with me doing this, [but] he doesn’t need to cease me.”
At one other level within the documentary, The Marriage ceremony Planner star shared love letters from Ben courting again to once they first started seeing one another in 2001. He later stated within the doc, “Issues which are non-public I at all times felt are sacred and particular as a result of, partly, they’re non-public.”
After being inseparable in PDA images since their reunion and marriage, Ben and Jennifer went 47 days with out being photographed collectively beginning on March 30. In Contact solely obtained the first pictures of the 2 reuniting at his little one Fin’s faculty play on Could 16.
Ben skipped out on attending the Met Gala on Could 6, the place J. Lo was a co-chair. She was compelled to stroll the purple carpet solo, with the Argo star’s absence stunning vogue reporters.
At some point after Jennifer was photographed home looking in Beverly Hills on Could 14, regardless of proudly owning a $60 million residence bought with Ben in Could 2023, In Contact reported solely that the pair were headed for a split.
“The writing is on the wall – it’s over,” the insider dished on Could 15. “They’re headed for a divorce – and for as soon as, [Ben’s] to not blame!”
“Ben already moved out they usually’ll probably must promote the dream home they spent two years looking for. They’ll by no means cease loving one another, however she will be able to’t management him, and he can’t change her. There’s no method it may have lasted,” the supply added.
The next day, the Gone Lady actor was photographed driving away from a $100,000 monthly rental residence he was staying at in Brentwood, California, not removed from the place his ex-wife, Jennifer Garner, and their three youngsters lived.
Throughout Ben’s daughter Violet’s highschool commencement actions, the Oscar winner attended one occasion solo, whereas J. Lo joined him and his mother, Ann Boldt, for a celebration on Could 30, though the “Let’s Get Loud” singer left by herself after one hour.
The next day, Jennifer introduced that she was cancelling her summer tour amid her marriage disaster.
“I’m fully heartsick and devastated about letting you down. Please know that I wouldn’t do that if I didn’t really feel that it was completely crucial,” she wrote on her OnTheJLo web site on Could 31. Live performance promoter Reside Nation stated in an announcement that the tour had been scrapped as a result of “Jennifer is taking day without work to be along with her youngsters, household and shut buddies.”
Ben and Jennifer’s love story started in 2001 once they fell for one another whereas making the movie Gigli. They have been imagined to marry in a lavish, Santa Barbara, California, marriage ceremony ceremony in September 2003, however referred to as it off days earlier than the nuptials. The pair broke up in January 2004.
Jennifer went on to marry fellow singer Marc Anthony six months later in June 2004. They divorced 10 years later in June 2014.
Ben wed his Daredevil costar Jennifer Garner in June 2005. The pair break up in 2015 and their divorce was finalized three years later.
