Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck's romance has been years in the making but now their marriage is coming to an end. After two years as husband and wife, on Aug. 20, according to court documents obtained by TODAY.
com. The couple, known as Bennifer, did not have a prenup, according to a source close to the singer. The source also confirmed to NBC News that Lopez filed without an attorney.
Reps for Affleck and Lopez did not immediately respond to TODAY.com’s request for comment. The couple first met and got engaged in 2002, but called it off in 2004.
They reconnected in 2021 and , 20 years after first meeting, in 2022. Lopez was so inspired by their romance that she made it the focus of her , “This Is Me..
. Now,” and its accompanying During a Feb. 15 appearance on TODAY, Lopez shared how “supportive” Affleck was of her new body of work.
One of the songs ," is a follow-up to a 2002 song of the same name, and speaks about how their romance evolved. “He inspires me and obviously, the feelings between us inspired me making this music,” she said. “He’s always supportive of whatever I’m doing,” she continued.
“And he knows that I’m a creative person and I’m an artist, and I’m going to express myself in the ways. I don’t think anybody really understood what I was trying to do and that made it hard..
. But he was always kind of like, ‘You can do this. Whatever you want to do.
I believe in you, so you go and do your thing.’” Read on to see a timeline of.