After months of hypothesis in regards to the standing of their relationship, Jennifer Lopez has formally filed for divorce from Ben Affleck.
On Tuesday, Lopez personally filed divorce paperwork by way of the Los Angeles Superior Courtroom with out utilizing a lawyer, TMZ first reported and HuffPost can affirm.
The paperwork affirm that the couple, who married in July 2022 almost 20 years after calling off their first marriage ceremony, had been separated for a while.
Lopez’s filings record the date of separation as April 26, 2024.
Courtroom information don’t include data concerning a prenuptial settlement, which may imply any property the couple accrued throughout their almost 2 years of marriage could be break up between the 2 of them.
Within the paperwork, Lopez requested to waive spousal assist for each herself and Affleck.
Lopez’s filings come precisely two years after the pair sealed their union with a second marriage ceremony ceremony in Georgia following an preliminary ceremony in Las Vegas one month prior.
The story of Affleck and Lopez’s break up was fairly the saga.
Reviews that the connection was in rocky territory started to emerge this Could, fueled by the truth that the couple as soon as generally known as “Bennifer” had not been seen in public collectively for almost two months.
Round that point, an insider instructed Individuals that Affleck had not been residing on the Los Angeles property he shared with Lopez.
Amid stories that the 2 have been residing individually, the “Hustlers” actor tried to place a damper on the breakup hypothesis.
When she was requested in regards to the reported relationship strife throughout an occasion selling her movie “Atlas” in Mexico Metropolis on Could 22, costar Simu Liu stepped in.
Chastising the journalist for the query, Liu stated: “OK, we’re not doing that.” Lopez added: “You know better than that.”
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Although the 2 appeared completely happy collectively at Affleck’s daughter’s highschool commencement on Could 30, questions in regards to the marriage intensified when “Entertainment Tonight” reported that Affleck and Lopez had quietly put their $60.8 million Beverly Hills property available on the market in early June. The property hit public actual property listings in July.
Following the house’s preliminary non-public itemizing, Lopez took a solo trip to Italy, adopted by an prolonged journey to the Hamptons.
In late June, after he’d been noticed a number of instances with out his marriage ceremony ring, Affleck was seen shifting his issues out of the couple’s Los Angeles property.
When their second marriage ceremony anniversary rolled round in mid-July, the pair stayed aside on reverse coasts.
Lopez then celebrated her fifty fifth birthday with an opulent “Bridgerton”-themed social gathering that Affleck didn’t attend.
The couple’s destiny appeared sealed when it was reported that Affleck had bought a $20 million Los Angeles property on his personal on the finish of July.
Tuesday’s announcement marks the second near the couple’s decadeslong love story.
Affleck and Lopez first met in 2001 on the set of the field workplace bomb “Gigli,” and have been engaged the next November.
The connection buckled amid intense public scrutiny, and in September 2003, they known as off their marriage ceremony, citing “the excessive media attention” they have been receiving.
Twenty years later, the “Out of Sight” star would describe canceling their nuptials as the “biggest heartbreak” of her life.
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The couple have been unable to salvage the union after pulling the plug on their marriage ceremony plans, and Lopez’s representatives introduced she and Affleck had damaged up in January 2004.
That June, Lopez married singer Marc Anthony, with whom she shares twins Emme and Max. The pair divorced a decade later.
Affleck married actor Jennifer Garner in June 2005. They welcomed three youngsters collectively earlier than separating in 2015 amid Affleck’s battle with alcoholism. They collectively filed for divorce two years later.
Within the spring of 2021, Lopez and Affleck rekindled their relationship within the wake of her break up from her fiancé, baseball star Alex Rodriguez.
The top of Lopez and Affleck’s marriage comes on the heels of a number of skilled setbacks for Lopez.
In late Could, the “Maid in Manhattan” star canceled her This Is Me… Dwell Tour following dismal gross sales of its accompanying album and brutal evaluations for the companion movie of the identical identify.
On the time, a consultant for Dwell Nation stated in a press release that “Jennifer is taking time off to be with her children, family and close friends.”
