Jennifer Lopez files for divorce from Ben Affleck

What occurred

Jennifer Lopez filed for divorce from Ben Affleck this week, precisely two years after the superstar couple celebrated their marriage at a lavish occasion in Georgia. That they had legally wed in Las Vegas a month earlier, in July 2022. The divorce petition was filed in Los Angeles Superior Courtroom, and the listed date of separation was April 26, 2024.

Who mentioned what

Lopez and Affleck — know as “Bennifer” since they first coupled up in 2003 — had “two engagements, two weddings and headlines too quite a few to depend,” The Related Press mentioned. And now their relationship is over, “or a minimum of the second installment of it.” Their 2004 engagement was known as off proper earlier than the marriage, and each stars went on to marry different individuals, have kids, and divorce.

Then, in 2021, “Bennifer 2.0 was born on the excellent second, a couple of 12 months into Covid-19, when individuals desperately wanted a distraction,” The Washington Put up mentioned. To some followers, The New York Occasions mentioned, “Bennifer 2.0 represented a fantasy of reuniting with the one which received away.”

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