They’ve been married for less than two years but rumors of whether Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck are divorcing are already swirling. The couple known as Bennifer rekindled their romance in April 2021 after first falling for each other in the early 2000s.
But InTouch Weekly reports it could all be over. “The writing is on the wall—it’s over,” an insider said. “They’re headed for a divorce—and for once, [Ben’s] not to blame!” Indeed, the couple haven’t been seen together in 7 weeks; the last time was grabbing lunch in New York City at the end of March 2024.
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“He’s focusing on his work and his kids now,” the insider added. “Ben already moved out and they’ll likely have to sell the dream house they spent two years searching for. They’ll never stop loving each other, but she can’t control him, and he can’t change her. There’s no way it could have lasted.”
Perhaps we could’ve seen this coming. In J.Lo’s documentary The Greatest Love Story Never Told, Ben admitted, “Getting back together, I said, ‘Listen, one of the things I don’t want is a relationship on social media.’ Then I sort of realized it’s not a fair thing to ask. It’s sort of, like, you’re going to marry a boat captain and you go, ‘Well, I don’t want the water.’ We’re trying to learn to compromise.”
J-Lo and Ben met in 2001 on the set of their movie, Gigli, in which they played love interests. They started dating in 2002, around the time Ben also starred as the love interest in the music video for J-Lo’s song, “Jenny From the Block.”
In November 2002, Ben proposed to J-Lo with a 6.1-carat pink diamond ring from Harry Winston, and the two got engaged. Two days before they were scheduled to tie the knot in September 2003, J-Lo and Ben announced that they had postponed their wedding and eventually called it off.
J-Lo and Ben got engaged for a second time in April 2022 and married in July 2022 at the Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada. “We did it. Love is beautiful. Love is kind. And it turns out love is patient. Twenty years patient,” J-Lo wrote in her newsletter, On the JLo, at the time. She continued, “They were right when they said, ‘all you need is love’.”
