Jennifer Lopez files for divorce from Ben Affleck

Nearly two decades after Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck got married The couple have decided to call the shots once more.

Lopez has filed a divorce petition on Tuesday at Los Angeles County Superior Court according to court papers. A person who is close to Lopez confirmed that they did not have any prenuptial agreements.

TMZ was the first publication to announce on the divorce application.

The couple who had been together for a long time finally tied the knot in the month of July 2022 following they had rekindled their relationship in earlier in the year.

Lopez as well as Affleck were engaged at the beginning of 2000s, but they broke up shortly before they got married, and after that, they spent 17 years of separation.

Lopez was married from 2004 until 2014 to the singer Marc Anthony, with whom she has two children and was in a relationship with New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez in 2019, before breaking the engagement in 2021.

In all, Lopez has been married four times.

In the time, Affleck was married to actor Jennifer Garner from 2005 to the year 2018. They have three children.

Lopez and Affleck were during the filming on the set of “Gigli” in 2002, according to Vulture In November of the same year, they had announced their engagement.

A year later, in the year 2004, Lopez announced their split.

When Lopez and Rodriguez split in 2021, Lopez was often photographed with Affleck which led to rumors suggesting that the couple were planning to rekindle their romance.

Lopez revealed the news in early April of 2022. She and Affleck were once more engaged about 20 years after the initial proposal. They were married on July 16, 2022 and received an official marriage certificate in Clark County, Nevada, court records indicate.

The couple got married on the same day in Las Vegas and arrived at the chapel at just before midnight, waiting in the line with four other couples According to Lopez’s fans newsletter, called the J Lo, which blasted out the news right after the ceremony.

“We did it,” the report stated. “Behind us two men held hands and held each other. In front of us, a young couple who made the three hour drive from Victorville on their daughter’s second birthday — all of us wanting the same thing — for the world to recognize us as partners and to declare our love to the world through the ancient and nearly universal symbol of marriage.”

The couple stated at the time that “it was the best possible wedding we could have imagined. One we dreamed of long ago and one made real.”

Rumors started to circulate in May, indicating that the couple was in the process of getting divorced after tabloids reported that they had not seen each other in a while and Affleck had left their house, which was then put on auction, and he then moved into his own house according to reports.