LOS ANGELES, Ca. (WSAV) — Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck officially became divorced and single Friday.
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge approved their divorce settlement on January 6, 2025, 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.
- Ben Affleck, left, and Jennifer Lopez attend the premiere of "The Last Duel" on Oct. 9, 2021, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
- FILE - Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez watch an NBA basketball game between the Golden State Warriors and the Los Angeles Lakers in Los Angeles, March 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis, File)
- FILE - Cast member Jennifer Lopez, right, and Ben Affleck attend a photo call for a special screening of "Marry Me" on Feb. 8, 2022, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)
- Jennifer Lopez arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Feb. 24, 2019, left, and Ben Affleck appears at the premiere of "Justice League" in Los Angeles on Nov. 13, 2017. The A-listers rekindled their romance 17 years after they broke up in 2004. (AP Photo)
- Ben Affleck, left, and Jennifer Lopez arrive at the premiere of "The Tender Bar" on Sunday, Dec. 12, 2021, at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
- Ben Affleck, left, and Jennifer Lopez arrive at the premiere of "This Is Me... Now: A Love Story" on Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
- FILE - Cast member Jennifer Lopez, right, and Ben Affleck attend a photo call for a special screening of "Marry Me" at DGA Theater on Feb. 8, 2022, in Los Angeles. The couple have obtained a marriage license in Nevada, according to court records posted Sunday, July 17, 2022. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)
- Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, seen here at the Venice International Film Festival in 2021, are engaged once again. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)
- WESTWOOD, CA - JULY 27: Actress Jennifer Lopez and actor Ben Affleck attend the premiere of Revolution Studios' and Columbia Pictures' film "Gigli" at the Mann National Theatre July 27, 2003 in Westwood, California. "Gigli" opens nationwide on August 1, 2003. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
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 in Las Vegas, followed by a lavish, star-studded wedding at Affleck’s 87-acre compound south of Savannah, Georgia. 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.
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.
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