Jennifer Lopez has filed for divorce from Ben Affleck, US media reported Tuesday, two years after the Hollywood energy couple formally gave love a second probability by tying the knot.
The pair, who had been nicknamed “Bennifer” once they first dated within the frenzied tabloid celeb days of the early 2000s, had rekindled their relationship nearly twenty years later.
But Lopez on Tuesday filed divorce papers at a Los Angeles courtroom, Hollywood commerce outlet Variety and celeb gossip web site TMZ stated.
A consultant for Lopez declined to remark. Affleck’s publicist didn’t instantly reply to an AFP request for remark.
It was the fourth marriage for pop singer-turned-actress Lopez, 55, and the second for Oscar-winning film star and director Affleck, 52.
The pair first met in 2002 on the set of the broadly panned film “Gigli.”
They grew to become a media sensation as they began courting and introduced their engagement.
But they postponed their deliberate 2003 nuptials, and introduced their relationship was over in early 2004.
“Bennifer” set the web alight once more in 2021 when images of them collectively once more started circulating.
“It’s a beautiful love story that we got a second chance,” Lopez stated in an interview round that point.
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Lopez and Affleck introduced their engagement in April 2022, and the A-list lovebirds wed in Las Vegas in July.
They made it official once more the next month in a lavish ceremony on the “Good Will Hunting” star’s 87-acre (35-hectare) property within the southeastern US state of Georgia.
Among the Hollywood varieties in attendance on the three-day affair had been longtime Affleck pal Matt Damon and director Kevin Smith.
The couple reportedly purchased a $60 million residence collectively in Los Angeles final 12 months.
But rumours of marital troubles emerged within the leisure press and on social media earlier this 12 months.
Fans famous that Lopez celebrated her fifty fifth birthday with out her husband final month, and TMZ stated that they had bought their joint residence, with Affleck shifting right into a luxurious bachelor pad.
People journal stated relations grew to become strained due to their totally different approaches to celebrities.
“She likes to open her heart to her fans and to the world,” the journal quoted an unnamed supply as saying.
“He is more introspective and private. This has been difficult day-to-day.”
Divorce papers listed the couple’s date of separation as April 26, 2024, in keeping with TMZ, which stated the pair are not on talking phrases.
Lopez was beforehand married to actor Ojani Noa, dancer Cris Judd, and singer Marc Anthony, with whom she shares twins Max and Emme.
Affleck was married to actress Jennifer Garner, and they’re the mother and father of Violet, Seraphina, and Samuel.
AFP