The day Jennifer Lopez selected to file for divorce from Ben Affleck has fairly the importance.
Us Weekly confirmed that Lopez, 55, filed for divorce from Affleck, 51, on Tuesday, August 20, at a courtroom in Los Angeles. The date marks the two-year anniversary of the pair’s second wedding ceremony ceremony, the place they celebrated their nuptials with family and friends at Affleck’s Savannah, Georgia property in 2022. (Affleck and Lopez secretly tied the knot in Las Vegas in July 2022.)
Lopez listed her and Affleck’s date of separation as April 26. The actress allegedly submitted the submitting herself as an alternative of by way of an legal professional.
Information of the cut up comes amid months of experiences that Lopez and Affleck’s marriage was on the rocks after the duo weren’t noticed collectively for weeks. In Might, Us confirmed that Affleck moved out of his and Lopez’s shared Beverly Hills dwelling.
After the twosome didn’t publicly acknowledge their second wedding ceremony anniversary in July, a supply solely advised Us that Affleck and Lopez have been “doing their very own factor” whereas they labored on a possible reconciliation.
“Jennifer steered they only take time to determine it out,” the insider defined, reiterating that the duo have been “dwelling separate lives” on the time.
Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck Xavier Collin/Picture Press Company/MEGA
Lopez and Affleck have a whole lot of historical past. They started their romance in 2002 after falling in love on the set of their movie Gigli. The pair obtained engaged however known as off the marriage in 2004. Affleck later moved on with ex-wife Jennifer Garner with whom he shares three kids: Violet, 18, Seraphina, 15, and Samuel, 11. Lopez, for her half, was married to Marc Anthony from 2004 to 2014. They welcomed twins Max and Emme, 16, in 2008. (Lopez was additionally beforehand married to Ojani Noa for 11 months in 1997 and Cris Judd from 2001 to 2002. She was engaged to Alex Rodriguez between 2019 and 2021.)
Almost twenty years after their first breakup, Affleck and Lopez rekindled their relationship in 2021. The actor proposed for a second time the next 12 months. Throughout a January 2023 look on Jimmy Kimmel Stay!, Lopez opened up about her and Affleck’s choice to elope.
“We have been planning to get married in August in Savannah, the household was going to be there, everybody’s going to be there, and it was so traumatic,” Lopez defined. “A month earlier than, and I don’t know in case you guys know this, however 20 years in the past we have been imagined to get married. And it form of all fell aside again then and this time, I completely had a bit PTSD and I used to be like, ‘Is that this occurring?’”
She continued on the time, “In the future Ben simply stated, ‘F–ok it, let’s simply go to Vegas and get married tonight.’ He was like, ‘Go to rehearsal [for your show], while you get again right here I’m going to have all the pieces all arrange.’”
