Jennifer Lopez files for divorce from Ben Affleck after 2 years of marriage
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are seen out and about on March 30, 2024 in New York, New York. (Photo by MEGA/GC Images)
Jennifer Lopez has officially filed for divorce from Ben Affleck after two years of marriage.
Lopez filed legal documents on Tuesday at the Los Angeles County Superior Court, TMZ reported. She filed pro per, which means she filed the documents on her own and without an attorney present.
Breakup rumors
Breakup rumors surrounding the couple sparked earlier this year and last month, the pair appeared to be living separately.
Lopez, 55, was seen on July 24 spending the weekend in the Hamptons on the East Coast, while Affleck, 51, was spotted cruising through town on his motorcycle on the West Coast during the same time.
Previous marriage
After meeting, falling in love and getting engaged in the early 2000s — and starring together in 2003's infamous "Gigli" and 2004's "Jersey Girl" — the couple parted ways, blaming in part the pressure of the public eye.
But to the delight of many and perhaps the skepticism of others, they reunited two decades later and married — twice — in 2022.
"Love is beautiful. Love is kind. And it turns out love is patient. Twenty years patient," wrote Lopez, announcing their first, quickie Las Vegas wedding that July, and signing off as Jennifer Lynn Affleck.
"Stick around long enough and maybe you’ll find the best moment of your life in a drive through in Las Vegas at 12:30 in the morning in the tunnel of love drive through with your kids and the one you’ll spend forever with," she wrote in her newsletter.
The couple had flown to Las Vegas, stood in line for their license with four other couples and were wed just after midnight at A Little White Wedding Chapel, where Lopez said a Bluetooth speaker played their brief march down the aisle. She called it the best night of the couple’s lives.
A month later, they had a much grander wedding at Affleck’s house in Georgia, in front of friends and family.