The summer of 2024 has been...
complicated for Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck. As they possibly, allegedly, begin divorce proceedings, she appears to be living her Nancy Meyers-esque best life, boating in Italy and biking in the Hamptons, while he’s been riding his motorcycle around Los Angeles. (You know how it goes when you’re hot, rich, and famous.
) These two have weathered pretty much every up and down that a celebrity couple can, so it’s possible that this latest rough patch is just another bump in the road (they !). While we wait to find out if the are, in fact, real, however, catch up on the full story behind this larger-than-life duo’s decades-long romance. Act I: Jen and Ben meet (December 2001) A little film by the name of began filming in December of 2001, bringing Lopez and Affleck together for the first time.
In a recent interview with , Lopez recalled first meeting Affleck during a read-through of the film. “I don’t remember a whole bunch more about it,” she continued, “but I remember being on the set with him every day and loving it.” It’s not every woman that can nab a famous boyfriend while playing a character described as a “lesbian assassin”, but that’s J Lo’s power for you! Act II: Jen and Ben’s first musical collaboration (November 2002) Affleck may be on the record in the music video for Lopez’s 2002 hit “Jenny from the Block”, but I, for one, can’t get enough of watching the couple lounge on a yacht from a paparazzo.