Yahoo Lifestyle Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck finalize their divorce, ending Bennifer 2.0 after 2 years of marriage
The "This is Me… Now" singer filed to divorce Affleck in April 2024, after they eloped in Las Vegas in July 2022.
Bennifer 2.0 has officially reached its end.
Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck have finalized their divorce half a year after the singer filed for a dissolution of marriage. According to the Associated Press, Lopez filed documents on Monday, Jan. 6 in Los Angeles Superior Court to show that the former couple settled their divorce through mediation in September.
Per the terms of their split, neither star will pay the other spousal support. The singer has also requested that her former name, Jennifer Lynn Lopez, be restored and will drop Affleck from her legal name once a judge finalizes their breakup. Additional financial details of the settlement were not filed publicly.
TMZ, the first to break the news of the divorce settlement, reports that the exes also reached an agreement on the $61 million home purchased during their marriage, but the details remain confidential. The property has been put up for sale.
Entertainment Weekly has reached out to representatives for Lopez and Affleck for comment.
After marrying on July 16, 2022 in Las Vegas, Lopez and Affleck separated in April 2024, and Lopez officially filed for divorce four months later on Aug. 20 2024, the two-year anniversary of the couple's 2022 Georgia wedding ceremony. They cited “irreconcilable differences” as the reason for their split. This marked the second marriage for Affleck, the fourth for Lopez, and the culmination of their highly-publicized 22-year-long romance.
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Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez in 2024The former couple first met in 2002 on the set of their panned crime drama Gigli (while Lopez was married to her second husband, Cris Judd), and they were engaged soon after. They went on to share the screen for Lopez's "Jenny From the Block" music video in 2003, and Affleck was the subject of several tracks on her third studio album, This is Me… Then. But before they could walk down the aisle, their whirlwind romance came to an end: the couple announced their first split in 2004, citing the excessive media attention. In the years to follow, they would speak at length about how the overwhelming press coverage complicated their relationship.
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To the shock and delight of many, Lopez and Affleck would rekindle their romance two decades later, in 2021. April of that year saw the couple unexpectedly spotted together, immediately sparking relationship rumors that were soon confirmed when they announced their second engagement. In July 2022, Lopez revealed that she and Affleck had eloped in Las Vegas, on what she described as the "best night ever."
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Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez in 2003Public scrutiny continued to play a role in their relationship the second time around; in addition to the general media frenzy, Lopez got intimate and explicit about her relationship with Affleck on her latest album, This Is Me... Now, and the Air actor featured prominently in the documentary about the making of said visual album.
By 2024, reports emerged that Bennifer had hit a rough patch, as the couple began attending events separately. In May, PEOPLE reported that Affleck and Lopez were not living together in their Los Angeles home and two months later, Lopez filed for divorce.
The couple have no children together but both have kids from prior marriages. Lopez shares twins Max and Emme, 16, with ex-husband Marc Anthony while Affleck shares three children — Violet, 18, Seraphina, 15, and Samuel, 12 — with ex Jennifer Garner.
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