After a beautiful relationship that lasted two decades, two engagements, two weddings and headlines too numerous to count, Jennifer Lopez has filed for a divorce from Ben Affleck.
The filing took place on Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court which brought to an apparent end a celebrity coupling that dazzled from the very heights of the pop culture firmament and countless tabloid covers. They were at some point, known as a power-couple "Bennifer”.
After meeting, falling in love and getting engaged in the early 2000s, the couple parted ways, blaming the pressure of the public eye. But to the delight of many, they reunited two decades later and got married.
The couple had flown to Las Vegas to get their license and were wedded just after midnight at A Little White Wedding Chapel, where Lopez collected that a Bluetooth speaker played their brief march down the aisle song. She called it the best night of their lives.
A month later, they had a much awe-inspiring wedding at Affleck's house in Georgia, in front of friends and family. Both of them had been previously married. Affleck, 51, married Jennifer Garner, with whom he shares three children, in 2005. They divorced in 2018.
Lopez, 54, had been married three times before. She was briefly married to Ojani Noa from 1997-1998 and to Cris Judd from 2001-2003. Her and singer Marc Anthony were married for a decade, having wed in 2004, and share 14-year-old twins. She started dating former baseball player Alex Rodriguez in 2017, but the couple called off their engagement in 2021.
Affleck himself expressed admiration for her self-possession, telling the AP last year that he agreed with the observation that Hollywood was unsure how to capitalize on her wide-ranging talent.
"I think she's in her prime, and She is doing extraordinary work in large measure because she's taking that step to take responsibility for what she's doing rather than say, 'This is what I'm being offered".
Lopez suddenly cancelled off her US tour, citing her need to spend some quality alone time with her family. It was noticed that they also put their marital home worth $68m on the market also got caught house hunting separately.
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