LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck formally grew to become divorced and single Friday.
A Los Angeles Superior Courtroom decide accepted their divorce settlement on Jan. 6, and declared that it might take impact on Feb. 21, after California’s required six months handed since Lopez filed to dissolve their two-year-old marriage. The doc stated they settled by way of mediation in September, avoiding the form of drawn-out court docket battle that different celeb {couples} have gone by way of.
Lopez now drops the Affleck from her authorized identify. A lot of the monetary particulars have been saved non-public, however neither star pays the opposite spousal assist, they usually haven’t any youngsters collectively so custody is just not a difficulty.
The celebrity pairing married in July 2022. Lopez filed for divorce in August 2024. The submitting stated that they had separated greater than a yr earlier.
It was their second stint as a pair. Within the early 2000s, they met, fell in love, obtained engaged and starred collectively within the notorious “Gigli” and “Jersey Girl” in 2004. They break up up that very same yr, blaming partially the stress of the general public eye.
However to the enjoyment of many followers and maybe the doubt of others, they obtained again collectively twenty years later and obtained married.
Affleck divorced Jennifer Garner, with whom he has three youngsters, in 2018. Lopez has been married 4 occasions and has twins with singer Marc Anthony.
