JENNIFER Lopez and Ben Affleck are set to “file for divorce” after weeks of split rumours, according to reports.
The Hollywood couple married two years ago, 20 years after their previous engagement.
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But it looks like they won’t be getting one of J-Lo’s rom-com fairytale endings as they are reportedly said to be “pushing ahead with divorce after a final attempt at reconciliation” failed reports The Mail.
Their divorce documents are said to be “finalised, but not yet turned in”, as sources told the publication.
It comes after Gone Girl star Ben bought a brand new $20.5 million ‘bachelor pad’ mansion in Los Angeles on July 24, the day Jennifer turned 55.
The property boasts five bedrooms, six bathrooms, a guest quarters and a media room.
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It comes just weeks after he put the Beverly Hills mansion he shared with Jennifer Beverly Hills on sale for $68 million, reports TMZ.
And just last month she threw a Bridgerton-themed party for her 55th birthday — but husband Ben was nowhere to be seen.
But, amid rumours of their marriage being on the rocks, actor Ben, 51, clutched a coffee 2,500 miles away in Los Angeles.
SIGNS OF TROUBLE
In the strongest sign yet that all is not well at home, J-Lo has called off her This Is Me . . . Now summer tour of the US just weeks before it was due to start, telling fans she is “taking time off to be with her children, family and close friends”.
And Gone Girl star Ben was pictured with his ex-wife, actress Jennifer Garner, in Santa Monica, California last in May taking their son Samuel, 12, to basketball practice.
The next day J-Lo arrived to see Samuel play a match in the city and shared an awkward-looking kiss with Ben which fans fear was staged for the cameras.
Amid her relationship turmoil, she has since reportedly warned Ben’s ex to stay away from him.
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Ben has repeatedly been seen without his wedding ring of late, and he and J-Lo are believed to have put their £45million Beverly Hills marital home on the market.
It was revealed last month Ben had moved out of the 12-bedroom mansion and into a £78,000-a-month rental home in Los Angeles suburb Brentwood, while J-Lo has been photographed house-hunting without her husband.
The Hollywood couple met on the set of 2002 film Gigli and got engaged later that year before calling time in 2004, only to then get back together and marry in July 2022.
But now Ben, 51, and J-Lo, 54, have reportedly been living separate lives for some time.
J-Lo now appears to be preparing for the worst after it emerged she has hired a crisis PR team.
She also broke her silence over the marriage rumours, blasting “negativity” in the world, while refusing to say all is well with her man.
Ben later escorted his wife to the passenger side before then slamming her door shut in a clip that went viral.
A few days later they looked tense at the premiere for Jen’s Netflix film The Mother, as J-Lo gesticulated at Ben while he looked annoyed.
She has also revealed they have clashed over her revealing outfits.
She admitted: “He’ll joke with me sometimes . . . he’ll say things like, ‘Where’s the rest of that shirt?’ I’m like, ‘Oh, this one doesn’t have anything else’.”
J-Lo’s recent docu-film The Greatest Love Story Never Told, which was released in February, tells the story of her latest album This Is Me . . .
Now which was released the same month, as well as her and Ben’s love story.
But it shows Ben looking uneasy about how a book of love letters he sent her had been used as inspiration for the album.
There has been wedding ring drama, too. Ben was spotted with-out his band last month, at his kids’ school, but days later had it on again when pictured pulling up to his rental home.
Then J-Lo was seen looking for a new home, without Ben.
An insider said: “He’s focusing on his work and kids now.
“He already moved out and they’ll likely have to sell the dream house they spent two years searching for.
“They’ll never stop loving each other but she can’t control him, and he can’t change her. There’s no way it could have lasted.”
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