Hollywood celebrities Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck will get a divorce on February 20, almost two years after getting married in July 2022.
In August 2024, Lopez filed for divorce. She stated that they had separated on April 26 and used the excuse of irreconcilable differences.
Lopez, 55, and Affleck, 52, will keep their individual assets, such as their own companies and project profits, and neither will provide the other with spousal maintenance, according to TMZ.
Ben will retain his ownership of Artists Equity, the production company he co-founded in 2022 with coworker Matt Damon, as part of the deal. Four months before he married Lopez, he founded the business.
Artists Equity has produced several notable movies, including ‘Air’, ‘Unstoppable’, ‘The Instigators’, ‘Small Things Like These’, and ‘The Accountant 2’.
On the other hand, Lopez will retain her project income from films like ‘Atlas’, ‘This Is Me… Now’, ‘The Mother’, ‘Shotgun Wedding’, and ‘Marry Me’.
The settlement also stipulates that Lopez will drop Affleck as her last name and revert to Jennifer Lynn Lopez. Additionally, the pair agreed to sell the $61 million house they bought together, although details of the sale remain private.
Recall that, Jennifer Lopez opened up about her thoughts over her divorce from her ex-husband Ben Affleck.
After a turbulent romance, the couple got married in 2022 and separated in April. On their second wedding anniversary, Lopez filed for divorce.
Jennifer Lopez discussed the difficult incident in a recent interview with Interview Magazine, saying that it “almost took her out for good.”
She acknowledged that marrying Affleck was an essential step in her path, but she did not voice any regrets about the decision.
The 55-year-old added that she does not have everything figured out but is “excited to be free and flying on my own”.
“It feels lonely, unfamiliar, scary. It feels sad. It feels desperate. But when you sit in those feelings and go, ‘These things are not going to kill me,’ it’s like, I am capable of joy and happiness all by myself,” she said.
“Being in a relationship doesn’t define me. I can’t be looking for happiness in other people. I have to have happiness within myself.
“I used to say I’m a happy person, but was still looking for something for somebody else to fill. I don’t regret it one second. That doesn’t mean it didn’t almost take me out for good. It almost did.
“But now, on the other side of it, I think to myself, “That is exactly what I needed. Thank you, God. I’m sorry it took me so long. I’m sorry that you had to do this to me so many times. I should have learned it two or three times ago.”
