BY: Walker
Published 3 hours ago
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are officially single.
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge approved their divorce settlement on Jan. 6, and declared that it would take effect on Feb. 21, after California’s required six months passed since Lopez filed to dissolve their two-year-old marriage. The document said they settled through mediation in September, avoiding the kind of drawn-out court fight that other celebrity couples have gone through.
Lopez now drops the Affleck from her legal name. Most of the financial details were kept private, but neither star will pay the other spousal support, and they have no children together so custody is not an issue.
The superstar pairing married in July 2022. Lopez filed for divorce in August 2024. The filing said they had separated more than a year earlier.
It was their second stint as a couple. In the early 2000s, they met, fell in love, got engaged and starred together in the infamous “Gigli” and “Jersey Girl” in 2004. They split up that same year, blaming in part the pressure of the public eye.
But to the joy of many fans and perhaps the doubt of others, they got back together two decades later and got married.
Affleck divorced Jennifer Garner, with whom he has three children, in 2018. Lopez has been married four times and has twins with singer Marc Anthony.
via: AP
Documents obtained by PEOPLE on Jan. 29 indicated that the former couple will share the profit they obtain from their Beverly Hills, California mansion once it sells. Affleck and Lopez listed the mansion for sale publicly in July 2024, and it remained on the market as of January. Those legal documents indicated that the pair will divide the final sale price of the house between them, but the amounts and percentage each receive will remain confidential.
Since the exes finalized their divorce in January, both Lopez and Affleck have remained busy with work. Lopez appeared at the Sundance Film Festival in January to premiere her new movie musical Kiss of the Spider Woman, which Affleck produced through his company Artists Equity.
Affleck recently appeared in a new Dunkin’ Donuts commercial alongside his Casey Affleck as they revived the DunKings in a Super Bowl spot, which also featured actor Jeremy Strong, former New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick and his girlfriend Jordon Hudson.
Affleck will head back to the big screen soon with the upcoming release of The Accountant 2, a sequel to his 2016 action-thriller The Accountant. That movie sees Affleck reprise his role as Christian Wolff and Jon Bernthal as his brother Brax. It will premiere at the SXSW Film Festival on March 8 and hit theaters on April 25.
via: People
