Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck Are Formally Getting a Divorce

Simply because we knew this was coming would not make it any much less unhappy to announce: Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck are getting a divorce.

As first reported by TMZ, after which confirmed by means of a number of sources to Individuals, Lopez filed for divorce from Affleck on Tuesday, August 20. The Grammy-nominated singer/dancer filed in Los Angeles County Superior Courtroom and listed the date of separation as April 26, 2024. Individuals experiences she filed for divorce herself with out utilizing a lawyer and is technically self-represented, and based on TMZ, they don’t have a prenup.

The previous couple have but to handle the information themselves on social media or by means of a consultant. Satirically, August 20 marks two years since their marriage ceremony in Georgia.

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Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck lastly made it down the aisle (a number of occasions) in 2022—almost 20 years after calling off their first engagement in 2004.

Nonetheless, the constructive press got here screeching to a halt when Lopez was noticed home searching in Los Angeles with out Affleck by her aspect in Could 14, 2024. Someday later, In Contact reported that Affleck had moved out of their shared house, and that the couple was “headed towards divorce.”

By June, their LA mansion was reportedly put available on the market and Lopez had canceled her world tour to spend extra time with “her youngsters, household, and shut buddies.” Even so, Lopez spent a bulk of the summer time within the Hamptons whereas Affleck remained in Los Angeles, the place he was typically photographed with and with out his marriage ceremony ring.

Whereas many experiences have cited Affleck’s distaste for the highlight as the foundation of their issues, one source advised Individuals that the pair had “deeper points” than Lopez’s profession. “The concept that Ben thinks Jennifer is just too well-known and that he didn’t know what he was moving into with the eye on their marriage isn’t true,” the source stated in July.