Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck’s divorce has been finalized five months after she filed the paperwork, Life & Style can confirm.
Jennifer, 55, and Ben, 52, will walk away from their marriage with everything they “individually acquired,” TMZ reported on Monday, January 6. The pair will keep their earnings from their respective movie projects that they earned during their two-year marriage. In addition, Ben will keep his stake in his “highly successful” production company, Artists Equity.
The now-exes also reached an agreement on the $61 million home they purchased, but the agreement is confidential.
Rumors first began to swirl that Jennifer and Ben were dealing with marital woes when In Touch reported they were “headed for a divorce” in May 2024. The former couple spent the following months keeping their relationship status a secret, though Jennifer confirmed their marriage was over when she filed the divorce paperwork on August 20, 2024.
She filed the paperwork without a lawyer and didn’t state if she and Ben had a prenup at the time. Additionally, the Wedding Planner actress listed April 26, 2024, as their date of separation.
Shortly after Jennifer confirmed their split, an insider exclusively told Life & Style that she was hopeful they could work through their issues.
“This has been a long time coming. Jen and Ben have been separated since March when the marriage began to really fall apart and Ben asked for space,” the source revealed on August 21, 2024. The “On the Floor” singer initially hoped that the “space would help,” though they ultimately concluded that “the marriage was not fixable.”
The insider explained that “Ben had no intention of working on things,” and spending time apart made it “more clear” that their “marriage was a mistake.”
Ben and Jennifer spent the final months of their marriage on opposite sides of the United States, with her spending the summer in the Hamptons and him remaining in California. Not only did they put their shared home on the market, but Ben also bought a new property for $20 million in July 2024.
Back in June, an additional source told Life & Style that Jennifer was “desperate to save” her relationship with Ben. “But to do that, she needs to be where Ben is,” the insider explained, adding that the Gone Girl actor seemed “pretty content with the living arrangement” of them in separate houses.
“It’s Jennifer who can’t seem to accept that it’s over between them,” the source said.
Ben and Jennifer tied the knot in 2022. However, their love story began nearly two decades earlier when they dated in the early 2000s and even planned to wed before they called off their engagement in 2004.
Prior to the divorce filing, another insider exclusively told Life & Style in early August that “something shifted” in their relationship. “Ben got colder and he’s since ghosted her. They only talk through lawyers at this point, and J. Lo’s finding it humiliating,” the source explained.
“Jennifer thinks Ben’s being an insensitive brat and wants him to man up, quit the brutal mind games and treat her with more respect,” the insider continued at the time. “She’s not going to take being treated so poorly anymore. J. Lo’s ready to fight — this means war.”
The source added that it was “very difficult” for Jennifer to “accept” the issues in their relationship, though she eventually decided to give the Argo actor space “with zero trash talking or game playing.”
Ben “seemed to share J. Lo’s view that they needed to put on a united front while being respectful toward each other,” the insider claimed.
