Jennifer Lopez has filed for divorce from Ben Affleck after two years of marriage that have fascinated both the press and the public. Every gesture, initiative or movement was fuel for the media and drugs in the veins of all of us. How could they have gotten divorced in just two years? We review the rise and fall of one of the most vibrant couples in the world. star system.
Key Facts
Jennifer Lopez filed for divorce on Tuesday in Los Angeles. The official date of separation is listed as April 26, 2024, according to the Associated Press.
Lopez and Affleck tied the knot by surprise in Las Vegas on July 16, 2022 in a simple and intimate ceremony that took place at A Little White Wedding ChapelA month later, they held a larger official ceremony at the actor’s mansion in the Hampton Island reserve in Georgia, in the middle of nature, which he acquired exactly twenty years ago, during his first engagement to the singer.
The second ceremony was organized by the group Colin Cowiewho usually charge between $25,000 and $25 million per event. In this case, the total was $400,000, according to the Daily Mail magazine. Hollywood celebrities such as Matt Damon and Jason Mewes attended.
The two made appearances at premieres and promotional events for each other’s various projects, which included films such as “The Last Duel,” “The Mother” and “This Is Me… Now: A Love Story,” according to Variety.
But it didn’t go unnoticed this past July as the couple celebrated their second anniversary apart. Where Lopez was enjoying bike rides in the Hamptons, New York, Affleck was in Los Angeles, California, on his way to the office, according to ABC newspaper.
His story
Lopez, 55, and Affleck, 52, got engaged in 2002 after meeting on the set of the crime comedy A Jersey GirlBy then she was married to Chris Judd, in a marriage that lasted eight months, and in the summer of 2002 she made her relationship with Ben Affleck official. They separated approximately a year later, days before the planned date of their wedding, claiming that their relationship and their impending wedding were causing a media stir that was impossible to sustain.
Lopez later married singer Marc Anthony, with whom she had two children, 16-year-old twins Emma Maribel and Max, born on February 22, 2008. The couple was married for 10 years. They met through their careers in the music industry, where they recorded a song together in 1999 called “Don’t Love Me,” a conflictive time for both of them since Lopez was in a relationship with Ben Affleck, and Anthony was married to Dayanara Torres, according to ¡Hola! magazine.
For his part, Affleck married actress Jennifer Garner, 52. The couple had three children, their firstborn Violet, 18, Fin, 15, and Samuel, 12. But they divorced after 13 years of marriage in 2018. Everything was thrown into disarray by Affleck’s problems with alcohol. In 1998, he confessed in an interview with USA Weekend that “I began to regret some of the things I did when I was drunk.” But it was not until 2020 that he admitted in the media, specifically in the New York Times, that “fundamentally, deeply, without a shadow of a doubt, I am an alcoholic,” despite having been photographed several times in rehabilitation centers.
The Reunion
Lopez and Affleck reunited in July 2021, all thanks to an email that the actor sent to the singer, the conversation felt natural and that it “flowed”, which is why they decided to meet and in secret. The two felt that the love that once began in 2002 had not dissipated, according to Lopez in an interview for Vogue magazine. A year later they got married, making all of humanity dream that second parts are possible (contrary to what statistics show). Rumors surrounding the actors’ separation began this year, with Affleck moving his belongings out of his home in Los Angeles two months ago, according to People.
