Second time lucky.
Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck got married last Saturday, according to the American media
TMZ
and confirmed by their representatives to
People magazine.
The couple would have married in Las Vegas according to the media, which has had access to the court record.
Among the guests would be the children and the mother of the actress.
The reconciliation of Jennifer Lopez, 52, and Ben Affleck, 49, became the news of the social chronicle last summer.
Benifer
's return
, an acronym with which they were baptized by the Anglo-Saxon press, was welcomed with joy by the fans.
His return filled the pages of magazines and social networks with nostalgia.
Now the relationship has gone a step further, celebrating a wedding that was delayed in 2004. The idea was to postpone it for a few months.
In the end it has been 18 years.
Lopez and Affleck were a couple between 2002 and 2004, they even announced wedding plans.
Just four days before it was to take place, the couple decided to postpone it.
"When we started seriously considering hiring three decoy brides for three different locations, we realized something was wrong," they admitted in a statement announcing that they were delaying their marriage.
A few months later the couple broke off their relationship.
This time Lopez and Affleck have been more discreet with the link, although this has not been a total surprise either.
Since they resumed the relationship, both have appeared very close and last April Lopez herself confirmed, in her personal newsletter
De Ella On her JLO
, that Affleck had given him an engagement ring from her.
She did it in a video, showing the jewel to the camera while the music of her 2002 song
Dear Ben
played , dedicated to the actor.
The couple's nods to their past relationship have been constant, something that makes sense on a personal level, but that, having developed in the spotlight, often means replicating moments that are part of pop culture.
In recent months, the
paparazzi
have returned to capture images of the couple in poses practically the same as those that were made almost 20 years ago in a recreation that has often gone viral.
In the past, their love story has gone beyond the personal to become the object of worldwide attention.
An attention that ended up eroding the relationship, as the actor revealed last year on
The Hollywood Reporter's Awards Chatter
podcast : "My relationship with Jennifer Lopez turned out to be that tabloid story at the time that business grew exponentially," he reflected.
After leaving him with Jenifer López, Ben Affleck married fellow actress Jennifer Garner.
They were married for 13 years, and had three children: Violet Anne, Seraphina Rose, and Samuel.
For her part, López has walked down the aisle three times.
In the nineties he did it with the actor and dancer Ojani Noa, with whom he spent a year and a half.
Her marriage to fellow actor Chris Judd did not last much longer.
She and Marc Anthony had a more stable relationship, they were together for ten years.
Together with the Puerto Rican singer, she had two children, Emme and Maximilian, and both boast of having a very cordial relationship.
The friendship between Lopez and Affleck has continued with ups and downs throughout these years.
In 2016, she said in an interview that her relationship with the actor had been “a genuine love” and that she did not know what could have happened between them “at a different time”.
He has not stopped praising her and, in an interview with
The New York Times
in 2020, the actor revealed: "I keep in touch with her regularly and I respect her a lot."
