Jennifer Lopez, better known by her stage name J. Lo, wed her longtime beau Ben Affleck on July 16 in Las Vegas. J. Lo’s full name is Jennifer Lynn Lopez.
On her official website, the actress, who is now 52 years old, made the announcement public. She also mentioned that the pair took a flight to Las Vegas and stood in line for their marriage licence among four other couples at the same time.
After being engaged for the first time 17 years ago, Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck have finally tied the knot. The celebrity legally changed her name to Jennifer Affleck, according to documents obtained from the clerk’s office in Clark County, Nevada.
She went on to write the following on the website, expressing her pleasure and thankfulness for the new stage in her life:
“We did it. Love is a stunning emotion. Love is nice. It also turns out that love may be patient. Twenty years’ worth of perseverance. They were absolutely correct in their assertion that “all you need is love.” We are extremely thankful to have that in abundance, as well as a new great family consisting of five wonderful children and a life that has never given us more cause to look forward to the future.”
Although Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck have just reignited the romance that appeared to have begun 17 years ago, Affleck is not Jennifer Lopez’s first spouse. Before she tied the knot with the actor from Gone Girl, the singer of “Waiting for Tonight” had been married three times already.
A quick glance back at JLO’s past romantic partnerships
The singer best known for his hit “On the Floor” was previously wed to Ojani Noa for a brief period of time between 1997 and 1998. When Jennifer Lopez was filming in Miami for the movie Blood and Wine, and Noa was working at a restaurant that was owned by Gloria Estefan, the two women stumbled into each other. Before they got married, the couple got to know each other through these various activities.
However, JLO’s meteoric rise to stardom led to the dissolution of their marriage only a year after the couple had tied the knot.
Following her relationship with Noa, the Papi singer began dating Sean “Diddy” Combs in 1999; nevertheless, the couple eventually split up in 2001. Following their breakup, the celebrity divulged in an interview the hip-hop mogul’s infidelity toward her while they were together. She said that he cheated on her throughout their relationship. However, they are now on cordial terms with one another.
When the singer tied the knot with Cris Judd on September 21, 2001, she gave herself a second chance at finding true love. The two individuals became acquainted with one another while working on the production of Love Don’t Cost a Thing in late 2000 in Spain. However, things deteriorated rapidly, and JLO eventually filed for divorce nine months later, in July 2002.
In 2001, while JLO and Ben Affleck were both working on the film Gigli, they had their first encounter with one another. After Lopez’s second divorce, the two of them resumed dating and became engaged quite shortly, in November of 2002. However, things did not work out between the two of them, and in 2004, they decided to end their relationship.
In June of 2004, Jennifer Lopez wed Marc Anthony, only a short time after her divorce from Ben Affleck. After another four years, in 2008, the couple became parents to identical twins named Max and Emme. Nevertheless, they went their separate ways in July 2011, a development that the singer acknowledged in a later interview had not been simple for her.
After being single for four months following her split from Anthony, Jennifer Lopez started dating Beau “Casper” Smart. However, it was a troubled relationship from the beginning, especially after the singer discovered in 2014 that her partner had been cheating on her with another woman. The couple had a sporadic romantic relationship until deciding to end it for good in 2016.
Also making news in 2017 were rumours that JLO and Drake were dating, however it appears that their relationship did not last very long because both of them have extremely busy work schedules.