Ben Affleck: what we know about his marriage to Jennifer Lopez

BEN AFFLECK JENNIFER LOPEZ. Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez got married on July 16, 2022 in a quick ceremony in Las Vegas.

[Mis à jour le 18 juillet 2022 à 14h25] Twenty years after their first engagement, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are finally married. The couple were engaged just three months ago when they said yes in Las Vegas this Saturday, July 16, 2022, in a quick and unexpected wedding. “Last night we flew to Vegas, stood in line with four other couples to get licensed,” the singer wrote in her newsletter, “On the JLO.”

“We got to the little white chapel just in time, midnight. They kindly stayed open for a few more minutes, let us take pictures in a convertible pink Cadillac, used of course in the past by the King himself .” After the exchange of vows and rings, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez have finally united, 18 years after the breakdown of their first engagement. “It was the most beautiful wedding we could have imagined. […] It was the best night of our lives.”

After this marriage, Jennifer Lopez took the name of Ben Affleck. She has indeed signed the On the JLO newsletter, in which she details her union with the actor who played Batman, “Mrs. Jennifer Lynn Affleck”. However, it seems unlikely that the singer will change her stage name to Jennifer Affleck at the end of this union, not having changed it on her Instagram account in particular.

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez met in 2002, on the set of the movie “Gigli”. For two years, the couple made tabloid headlines. They were to marry in 2004 but ended up breaking their engagement, after two years of love. The couple had reformed in 2021, almost twenty years after their separation and to everyone’s surprise and had ignited the red carpet of the last Venice Film Festival.

This isn’t the first time Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez have tied the knot. The actor had indeed married Jennifer Garner, the mother of his three children, in 2005. They separate ten years later and their divorce is widely publicized. The singer and actress is in her fourth marriage. She was married to Cuban chef Ojani Noa from 1997 to 1998, before saying yes to Cris Judd in 2001. Their marriage ended a few months later. From 2004 to 2011, Jennifer Lopez was married to singer Marc Anthony. They had twins together.

Ben Affleck was born in Berkeley on August 15, 1972. He began his career very young, at the age of eight in commercials and appeared in cinema for the first time in 1981 in the film The Dark End of the Street. Then, he played in television series and in TV movies in the 1980s. During his studies at Harvard, he met his best friend Matt Damon and ended up giving up his studies to devote himself to cinema.

The two men met for the first time on screen in 1992 in The difference by Robert Mandel. In 1997, he co-wrote with Damon the film Will Hunting whose screenplay and supporting actor, Robin Williams, won an Oscar. Ben Affleck is then predicted a bright future and this is how we find him in big budget films like Armageddon (1998) or Pearl Harbor (2001) and also in hit comedies such as the multi-Academy Award-winning, Shakespeare In Love (1999).t

Between 2002 and 2004, the highly publicized relationship he had with singer and actress Jennifer Lopez caused a severe slowdown in his career. Most of the movies they star in are commercial failures the most significant of which is undoubtedly Troubled loves with Lopez, a monumental failure linked to the hype around the couple who separated a year later. Finally, on the film set Daredevil, Affleck finds Jennifer Garner to whom he had already given the reply on the film Pearl Harbor. The two actors marry and become parents of three children. After a period where he chained unsuccessful castings, the label of boyfriend of Jennifer Lopez still sticking to his skin, he found the way to the sets in 2006 with Hollywoodland where he plays the late George Reeves.

He tried his hand at directing in 2009 with the detective film Gone Baby Gone in which he directs his brother Casey Affleck. The same year, he resumed his acting position to shoot what men think and the thriller Power games next to Russell Crowe. The following year, he directed the thriller The Town with Jon Hamm, Rebecca Hall and Jeremy Renner at the casting. For this, he received rave reviews from the press. He then finds Tommy Lee Jones and Kevin Costner in The Company Mena low-budget feature film debut from director John Wells.

Ben Affleck confirms his rebirth as a director by finally receiving recognition from his peers in 2013. Indeed, his film Argo about the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979, won the Oscar for Best Film, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Editing. In addition, Affleck seized the same year of the Golden Globes for Best Director. This rain of rewards earned him the role of the next Batman in which he faced Superman in dark rooms in 2015. The film and its Justice League sequel did not, however, allow him to return to the front of the stage. After a new slump, marked by his divorce from Jennifer Garner and addiction problems, he returns to the front of the stage in The Way Back (2020) and The Last Duel (2021).

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez lived a romance from 2002 to 2004, after meeting on the set of the movie “Gigli”. After a quick engagement, the couple broke up two years later. The reasons for their breakup were not mentioned, but the excessive media attention that the couple received was mentioned to explain this choice. Each on their side, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez lived romances and got married, before divorcing. In 2021, the two actors decide to give their couple a chance. They are getting married in Las Vegas on July 16, 2022.

Ben Affleck met Jennifer Garner on the set of the film Pearl Harbor in 2001. They then found themselves starring in the feature film Daredevil the following year. But it was from 2004, after filming together again for the film Elektra, that they officially became a couple. Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner got married on June 29, 2005 on a beach in Parrot Cay. They are parents of three children: Violet Anne (2005), Seraphina Rose Elisabeth (2009) and Samuel (2012). The couple separated on June 29, 2015 and formalized their divorce two years later. They would have remained on good terms, evoking wanting the well-being of their children.

Ben Affleck is dating actress Ana de Armas. Despite the 16-year age difference, their meeting on the set of the film Deep Water leads to an affair of more than a year. They get married in March 2020 and separate in January 2021. They are regularly photographed by the paparazzi during their private outings.