Jennifer Lopez’s Divorce Filing Was ‘A Big F–k You’ for Ben Affleck

Jennifer Lopez waited to end her marriage Ben Affleck for a very obvious reason.

“The timing of the divorce was a big blow to Ben,” says a Hollywood insider We weekly exclusively following Lopez’s move to officially cut ties with Affleck, 52.

Us confirmed on Tuesday, August 20, that Lopez had filed for divorce from Affleck after months of questions about the status of their union. Court documents filed Tuesday in a Los Angeles court show that the former couple’s actual divorce date was April 26 — three months before their second wedding anniversary.

However, Lopez waited until the two-year anniversary of their actual wedding anniversary to move forward with the filing. (Lopez and Affleck tied the knot in a Las Vegas ceremony in July 2022 before tying the knot in front of family and friends in Georgia the following month on August 20.)

For months, reports have continued to surface that the former couple’s marriage is on the rocks. But Lopez’s divorce filing officially puts an end to the discourse.

We confirmed in May that Affleck had moved out of their shared Beverly Hills home together.

“They can’t get on the same page [and] have discussed divorce as an option,” a source said Us in June. The following month, Us confirmed that Affleck had purchased a new $20 million mansion without his estranged wife.

Lopez and Affleck first got together in the early 2000s after meeting on the Gigli movie set. They were engaged in November 2002 but split early the following year without ever walking down the aisle.

The A-listers eventually reunited in 2021 and got married the following year. Questions about the status of their relationship arose earlier this year when they had not been publicly spotted together for 47 days. Neither Lopez nor Affleck have addressed the dissolution of their relationship.

A separate source told Us in July that Affleck and Lopez were “living separate lives” as they decided the next steps in their marriage. There was a “splinter of hope” for reconciliation, a second insider shared at the time.

“They are going through so much, individually and as a couple,” says a third source Us. “It may take some time for them to see if this complicated moment can resolve itself and they come back to each other [as] better people.”

The same insider added: “They don’t hate each other – they do [just] going through hard times.”