Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez in February 2024.
(Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images)When Jennifer Lopez AND Ben Affleck finalized the divorce, took their personal belongings with them.
Formerly officially ended their marriage on Monday, January 6, according to documents obtained by Us Weekly. In doing so, both parties “agreed to share all assets and liabilities” to avoid further conflicts and expenses.
Lopez, 55, keeps all of her personal belongings and earnings from the date of separation – April 26, 2024 – as well as half of their bank accounts. Affleck, 52, gets the same. Under the settlement agreement, they will also share their $60 million Beverly Hills mansion that is now on the market, but the specific terms of the settlement are under seal.
In the divorce, Lopez retains her clothing, jewelry and “various personal items in possession, custody or control” and all assets she owns “individually or by entities of which (Lopez) is the sole owner, member or shareholder.” .
The word “Bennifer” may involve a throwback to frosted lip gloss and butterfly clips, but everything comes back in style eventually. Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are back together nearly 20 years after their romance first took the world by storm. The pair were first linked in 2002 on the set of the ill-fated Gigli. The movie (…)
Meanwhile, Affleck retains his interest in the production company Artists Equity that he founded with Matt Damon in November 2022. The agreement says he will “pay, indemnify and hold harmless (Lopez) from any and all liabilities, claims, debts, actions, causes of action and/or tax liabilities related to” the company.
They settled their divorce through mediation in September. Lopez asked to drop “Affleck” from her last name and restore her legal name to Jennifer Lynn Lopez.
actress filed for divorce by Affleck in August 2024. Instead of tapping a lawyer to file the paperwork on her behalf, Lopez filed it herself in the second anniversary of the couple’s wedding in Georgia, despite the fact that the date of their separation was months ago.
At that time, the famous divorce lawyer Chris Melcher suggested in an interview with us that Lopez’s decision to file without a lawyer was “intentional to send a message that this is not going to be a fight.” Melcher claimed that the pair had probably “worked out most of (the) issues before going public with the dossier”.
Lopez and Affleck share a long history. They met on the set of the box office bomb lily in 2001 and got engaged in November 2002. They headed down the aisle in September 2003, but called off their wedding days before the ceremony. They confirmed their separation in January 2004.
Sparks rekindled when the couple – known as “Bennifer” – reconnected in May 2021 and got engaged again in April 2022. They exchanged vows in Vegas that July and held a second ceremony in Georgia the following month.
Lopez was previously married to Come on Noah from 1997 to 1998, Chris Judd from 2001 to 2003 and Marc Anthony — with whom he shares twins Max and Eme — from 2004 to 2014. Affleck, for his part, was married to Jennifer Garner from 2005 to 2018, and they are joined by their three children, Violet, Seraphina and Samuel.
In May 2024, rumors of marital problems began to swirl after Lopez and Affleck were not seen together in public for 47 days. us quickly confirmed it Affleck was gone of their home.
A source exclusively said us that June that they could not “do on the same page (and had). discussing divorce as an option.”
