If you’ve been following the Ben Affleck/Jennifer Lopez story closely for the past few months you’ll likely feel a sense of relief that it’s finally come to what has long appeared to be its inevitable conclusion.
It hardly required the foresight of Nostradamus to predict that the popular union of ‘Bennifer’ was destined for a saddening end, and for most people it’s been a question of when, not if, divorce papers from either party would be filed.
Well, that question was answered earlier this week when JLo finally made the move to officially shut the door on her marriage to Affleck, two years to the day since the couple tied the knot in a Las Vegas wedding.
Much of 2024 has seen celebrity tabloids and gossip columns filled with updates regarding Ben and Jen’s marriage, and there have been very few pieces, if any, that had a positive outlook.
Rather, there have been a series of strong hints portioned out over the past few months, many neat-fitting pieces of a jig-saw puzzle that, when completed, promised the end to one of the entertainment industry’s most high-profile couplings.
Lopez, 55, filed for divorce on Tuesday, Aug 20, and did so without a lawyer.
Most significant of all is the date on which the superstar singer finally bit the bullet, as it marks the two-year anniversary of her and Ben’s wedding.
“She was done waiting and the date she did it speaks a ton,” a source told PEOPLE.
A second Lopez insider told the same publication: “She tried really hard to make things work and is heartbroken.
“The kids are a top priority, as they always have been.”
Affleck and Lopez’s love story goes back two decades, when they established themselves as one of the ‘IT’ couples of the celebrity world in the early 2000s. The pair were engaged but ultimately called off their wedding, later separating and finding new partners.
The A-listers rekindled their romance in 2021 and were engaged in April of 2022. They tied the knot in Las Vegas later that year, but it wasn’t long before the gossip sheets began to publish rumors of trouble in paradise.
Sadly, it just wasn’t meant to be.
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