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SINGER JENNIFER LOPEZ has filed for divorce from her husband, actor Ben Affleck. US media reported the split on Tuesday, two years after the couple officially tied the knot.
Lopez filed the divorce papers with a Los Angeles court yesterday, according to Hollywood outlet Variety and celebrity gossip website TMZ. The papers said that the couple had separated in April 2024, and were no longer on speaking terms.
Neither of the celebrities provided any comment on the split.
It is the fourth divorce for Lopez, 55, and the second for Affleck, 52.
The pair first became romantically involved on the set of the widely-panned film ‘Gigli’, in which the pair play mobsters involved in a botched kidnapping.
After becoming a media sensation, they announced their first engagement in 2002. However, their nuptials were postponed in 2003, with a break-up being announced in 2004.
Flash-forward to 2021 though, and ‘Bennifer’ was once more setting the internet alight, with photos of the pair together again surfacing.
“It’s a beautiful love story, we got a second chance,” said Lopez at the time.
They announced a second engagement in April 2022, and married in Las Vegas that July.
This was followed up with a more official ceremony a month later at Affleck’s estate in Georgia, attended by some of the Bostonian’s long-time friends actor Matt Damon and director Kevin Smith.
They reportedly purchased a home in Los Angeles together last year, costing in the realm of $60 million.
However, not all was well in paradise. Rumours of marital trouble began to emerge earlier this year in the entertainment press and social media, and fans noted that Lopez celebrated her 55th birthday in July sans spouse.
Scrutiny has not just been restricted to their personal lives.
In March, Lopez dropped seven shows from her ‘This is Me…Now’ tour, which had been struggling to fill seats. In April, it was rebranded to ‘This is Me…Live/Greatest Hits’, reportedly in an attempt to draw in more crowds with some of her classics.
In June, the tour was cancelled, a decision that Lopez said had her “heartsick and devastated”.
“Please know that I wouldn’t do this if I didn’t feel that it was absolutely necessary. I promise I will make it up to you and we will all be together again,” she said in a statement on her website.
A spokesperson said that she was taking time “to be with her children, family and close friends”.
Lopez was previously married to actor Ojani Noa, dancer Cris Judd, and singer Marc Anthony, with whom she has twins, Max and Emme.
Affleck was married to actress Jennifer Garner, with whom he has three children: two girls, Violet and Seraphina, and a boy, Samuel.
With reporting from © AFP 2024.
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Fine. Now let’s get to legalizing weed, please
@Wicked Hedgehog: that will have the people turned schizophrenic, running around with knives attacking people. Dangerous stuff indeed keep it away.
@Wicked Hedgehog: Yes, that’s worked so well in America.
@Wicked Hedgehog: I think alcohol is a bigger problem in Ireland, should we look at banning it?
@Mick Joe: America ain’t the only country where weed is legal a Nation that shoots people for fun isn’t good example how about Spain where you can buy it in weed clubs or Holland and soon to be in Germany
@Stephen Blood: just back from kos, they had vending machine in some shops selling weed, pre rolled joints and even the gummies,
@Meatball Martin: personally I wouldn’t want it to be honest, I’ve nothing against anyone who wants to smoke it as I’m a ex smoker myself but vending machine with no control over will end up with 6yr old kids off their tots on gummies, a shop in kos had a locked door that you had to ask to be opened and let in, then it was like an aladins cave for weed smokers, very well managed and controlled
@Sean Money: The health hazards of any substance come from having unregulated supply.
Take it out of the hand of criminals, and those problems go away.
Yet another argument for legalisation.
@Wicked Hedgehog: Need a few generations of Sky-pointers gone (just like Sean there), we’re not a very rational people. Get a Vivosun or some-such discreet automated set up, and you can control your needs plus your not supporting crime, rather the already gargantuan industry. Just that Ireland doesn’t benefit in any way, cant use the money to support health lead approach etc.
Why ban the sale of tobacco product to under 21s but the establishment are pushing for children their change their gender
@Niall Fennessy: They need to throw the public “a bone” to appear to care.
Just an observation. I was in our local shop at the weekend, young and very capable confident student working for summer, one person handed in lotto slip, student had to press bell for assistance as under 18, next person requested cigs, again student had to ring bell for assistance.
@Nancy Gallagher: What’s your point? That we should stop phasing out smoking because of inconvenience?
@Dennis L: Probs there should always be someone over 18 in attendance would be fine
Totally agree with that bill and it should be extended to vapes
But it wil drive the whole thing underground more
@John Gaughan: Australia has now restricted the sale of vapes to pharmacies only. A step in the right direction
@John C: Doctor on the radio this morning explaining that vaping was safer alternative than smoking cigarettes and the lesser of two evils, I think it’s you that’s the dope and a big one at that.
Nanny state telling people what to do . Sitting on a couch watching TV for 4 hrs a day on top of sitting at a desk for 8 is a far greater health risk.
It’s nearly 20 euros a pack now.
But at least the choice remain
They will just get their 22 year old mate to buy the Cogs for them
I don’t smoke anymore I find ffgs hubris disgusting at this stage and at least 50,% of there support know, we diverse a better way
@Robert Halvey: we diverse a better way of what?
Kids don’t smoke cigarettes they vape so all a bit pointless
@Martin Curtin: though that’s not true it seems
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20210920/Study-finds-rising-rates-of-smoking-and-vaping-among-teenagers-in-Ireland.aspx
Should be banned completely.
“The health hazards of any substance come from having unregulated supply”
Are the cigarettes bought in shops a healthy version? Does alcohol served in pubs have no impact on our livers?
Wow.
Pointless to do anything about tobacco without mirroring it for vapes.
It took years for vapes not to be sold to under 18′s yet it was patently obvious they were bad.
Typical government garbage policies where they’re done out of step and allow damage to be done.
@Meatball Martin: Vapes contain nicotine, a highly addictive substance.
And a poison.
Vapes should only be of use to those trying to stop smoking. No one else should be using them.
Do you own a vape import business, by any chance?
There is no reasonable argument for the use of vapes, except for those trying to give up smoking.
Did they never hear of king Canute?
@Padraig O’Brien: A wise man he was. He took some of his Lords and Courtiers down to the sea to prove to them that he was NOT all powerful. He ordered the tide to stop and it didn’t. Ppint effectively made.
vape shops ! Booming
Keep talking , keep drafting , live at your own bubble.
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