Los Angeles: After a marriage that spanned two years, celebrity couple Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck have called it quits. Court records showed Jennifer Lopez initiated the divorce proceedings and filed a petition in Los Angeles Superior Court on Tuesday. TMZ, which first reported the news, stated that Lopez listed the date of separation as April 26, 2024.
It added that she did not mention any prenuptial agreement. This has brought to an apparent end a celebrity coupling or at least the second installment of it that dazzled from the very heights of the pop culture firmament and emblazoned countless tabloid covers. The pair became known, even before such power-couple portmanteaus were ubiquitous, as Bennifer.
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 n.