Jennifer Lopez Reveals When She and Ben Affleck Actually Split

Jennifer Lopez has revealed when she and Ben Affleck really separated after months of hypothesis that the pair’s marriage was on the rocks.

In keeping with divorce papers filed by Lopez, 55, and obtained by Us Weekly on Tuesday, August 20, the pair formally known as it quits on April 26.

Rumors started to swirl that there was rigidity between Lopez and Affleck, 52, in April, when People reported that the pair had not been photographed collectively publicly for greater than 47 days.

On the time, Lopez and Affleck had not been seen collectively since March 30 in New York Metropolis, after they had been noticed holding fingers. (Their final crimson carpet look, in the meantime, occurred again in February for the premiere of Lopez’s This Is Me … Now: A Love Story.)

In Could, Lopez was making ready to function a cohost on the 2024 Met Gala in Manhattan. The singer revealed by way of Vogue’s official Instagram account on the time that she was struggling to determine what to put on to the occasion.

“I’ve just a few totally different sketches, I’m nonetheless deciding,” she mentioned within the April 17 publish that charted her preparation. Within the video, she enthusiastically spoke about her cohosting duties, smiling for the digicam and telling followers that it was a “actual honor” to be chosen by Anna Wintour.

Simply 10 days after the couple privately separated, Lopez attended the Met Gala on her personal on Could 6. Later that month, she additionally attended the Los Angeles and Mexico Metropolis premieres of her Netflix movie, Atlas, sans Affleck.

On the Mexico Metropolis premiere, Lopez was requested a query about her marriage to which her Atlas costar Simu Liu swiftly shut down. “OK, we’re not doing that,” the actor, 35, responded. “Thanks a lot, guys. We actually recognize it.”
Lopez took a second earlier than addressing the query herself. “ higher than that,” she mentioned.

That very same month, an insider solely informed Us that Lopez and Affleck had been “having points of their marriage,” which allegedly started when Lopez ramped up “work commitments” in preparation for her This Is Me … Stay Tour. (The tour was later canceled by Lopez, who credited eager to “be together with her youngsters, household and shut mates,” per an e-mail shared by Stay Nation and her fan e-newsletter on the time.)

The insider additionally famous that Lopez had begun taking a look at a house in Los Angeles that she claimed was an funding property. A second insider informed Us that Affleck was staying at a spot in Los Angeles, not the couple’s shared property which they bought in March 2022 that neglected the Hollywood Hills.

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In June, a supply confirmed to Us that Lopez and Affleck had been within the means of promoting their Los Angeles residence. The next month, Lopez celebrated her fifty fifth birthday within the Hamptons with out Affleck.

The timing of Lopez’s Hamptons journey additionally coincided with the estranged couple’s second wedding ceremony anniversary. Neither Lopez or Affleck publicly commented on the July 16 milestone, with Affleck spending the event in Los Angeles.

Rumors of bother inside Lopez and Affleck’s marriage first surfaced when the pair attended the Grammys collectively in February 2023.

The then-couple had been filmed on the occasion in what some viewers purported to be a disagreement. Affleck’s lower than enthused demeanor led to many on-line memes on the time, regardless of Lopez telling followers by way of Instagram that she had the “finest evening” with “my love, my husband.”

One yr later in February 2024, Lopez dropped her ninth studio album, This Is Me … Now, which featured a “cinematic odyssey” sequel to her 2002 album, This Is Me … Then, launched throughout her first romance with Affleck.

Lopez gushed about collaborating with Affleck on the challenge, telling Selection on the time, “I really feel like as a result of Ben and I’ve rediscovered one another — and now that we’re married — I’ve one thing to supply.”

Regardless of Lopez’s reward for Affleck’s collaboration, the Oscar winner expressed that he skilled a sure factor of discomfort in being featured in Lopez’s work on the time.

“I did actually discover the sweetness and the poetry and the irony in the truth that it’s the best love story by no means informed,” he mentioned throughout The Best Love Story By no means Instructed, a documentary that explored Lopez’s more moderen album. “Should you’re making a document about it, that appears type of like telling it.”

Lopez and Affleck met on the set of Gigli in 2002 and the pair had been engaged by November that yr. Simply days earlier than their scheduled September 2003 wedding ceremony, they known as the marriage off and in January 2004, Lopez and Affleck introduced their breakup.

However their story didn’t finish there. In Could 2021, Us confirmed that the previous couple had been spending time collectively and in July that yr, Lopez and Affleck had been noticed house-hunting collectively.

The pair staged a shock wedding ceremony in Las Vegas on July 16, 2022 and had been married in a second ceremony in Georgia on August 20 that yr.

Two years later, to the date, Lopez filed for divorce from Affleck at a court docket in Los Angeles.