Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck They were spotted heading to her West Hollywood office to speak with divorce attorney Laura Wasser on Monday morning.
Laura, who worked with Ben when he split from Jennifer Garner, has been helping the exes mediate their “messy” divorce, according to TMZ.
Lopez and Affleck, who were married for just two years, have a messy split because they didn’t have a prenuptial agreement when they said “I do” in August 2022.
And since tying the knot, the stars have worked together on several projects including the films This Is Me… Now, The Greatest Love Story Never Told, Unstoppable and Kiss Of The Spider Woman.
The hardest part, however, is Ben’s production company with Matt Damon, with whom he has been in a relationship for many years, which began after he married the former Fly Girl, meaning Jennifer could get a cut of it, the site added.
Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck started Monday morning with a rocky reunion. The estranged couple was spotted heading to her West Hollywood office to speak with divorce attorney Laura Wasser.
Wasser was spotted on Instagram in June modeling jewelry
But there won’t be a war between the two because they want the divorce to be amicable.
“They want to show the kids that things are friendly,” a source said. People Monday. “They want to remain friends. There is still a lot of affection.”
The divorce must be going relatively well, as Ben and Jennifer seemed to be getting along well when they took their kids out to lunch at the Beverly Hills Hotel earlier this month.
They walked side by side towards the hotel.
PageSix claimed that Ben couldn’t keep his hands off Jen and even kissed her, which is unusual behavior for a divorcing couple.
However, the separation was a long time coming, as they did not live together for most of this year.
The On The Floor hitmaker, 55, filed for divorce without a lawyer on August 20, marking the couple’s second wedding anniversary.
Lopez has indicated that the separation date would be April 26, 2024, according to legal documents seen by DailyMail.com.
The couple did not sign a prenuptial agreement before getting married, confidential sources revealed.
The couple tied the knot during a lavish ceremony in Georgia in August 2022, a month after legally tying the knot in Las Vegas in July.
On April 26, which is listed as their official split date, Lopez was spotted here on a solo outing in New York City.
Ben was spotted on May 3rd; for months he went out with the ring on and off
On the day Jennifer and Ben’s marriage ended, the actress was spotted leaving The Whitman, a luxury boutique condominium overlooking Manhattan, while on a solo trip to her native New York.
Without a prenuptial agreement, Jennifer and Ben’s individual earnings from the past two years (whether from film projects or deals with major brands) are community property.
One of the biggest assets the estranged couple will have to agree on is a $60.85 million home in Beverly Hills, California, that they bought last year.
The former couple listed the home (which has 12 bedrooms and 24 bathrooms) in June for $65 million, then relisted it after recent renovations for $68 million.
The home in the posh Southern California neighborhood went off the market last month after more work was done on the abode, which took Lopez and Affleck two years to choose.
The mansion has a surface area of 38,000 square feet and state tax laws could influence the price increase, as California taxes homes sold for a minimum of $10 million with a 5.5 percent fee. TMZ reported last month.
The home was listed by The Agency, a real estate firm owned by Bravo personality Mauricio Umansky.
Affleck moved out of his Beverly Hills home and has since shelled out $20.5 million for a mansion in Pacific Palisades, California.
Both artists have worked steadily in the two years they’ve been married: Affleck’s projects in that span include the 2023 films Air (which he also directed) and Hypnotic, according to iMDb.
Affleck also appeared in The Flash (2023) and Jennifer Lopez’s This Is Me… Now (2024). He completed filming The Accountant 2, in which he reprises the role of Christian Wolff from the 2016 film.
The two appeared to have an argument on the red carpet shortly after at the premiere of Jennifer’s film, The Mother; photographed in May 2023 in Los Angeles.
Tongues began wagging when the pair appeared to have a tense exchange at the Grammy Awards in February 2023, though they both later downplayed it.
Other acting projects he has in the works include a film called Witness for the Prosecution, which is in development; and a film titled RIP, which is in pre-production.
He is listed as executive producer of a television movie called Thirst, a sports drama titled Flash Before the Bang, and a Hugh Jackman film titled Apostle Paul.
Other projects he is listed as a producer on include a film called Keeper of the Lost Cities, which he plans to direct and star in; and the film Animals, which he plans to direct and which stars his longtime friend Matt Damon.
Joint projects she is involved in with Lopez: a musical adaptation of Kiss of the Spider Woman and Unstoppable, both of which she stars in.
Jennifer, who has an estimated net worth of $400 million, has released four films since marrying Ben, including her self-financed $20 million project This Is Me… Now: A Love Story, which documents the couple’s rekindled romance.
She launched her Delola cocktail line in 2023 and was set to embark on a world tour in support of her latest album This Is Me… Now this year, but it was cancelled weeks before the start so she could “focus” on family.
Ben, an Oscar winner with an estimated net worth of $150 million, has starred in the films Air (2023) and Hypnotic (2023). He also recently wrapped production on a sequel to The Accountant (2016).
In court documents, Lopez said she was waiving spousal support and asked the court not to give any to Affleck either, according to the outlet.
According TMZ According to insiders, the exes have been locked in tense negotiations to reach a settlement for months. At times, Jennifer and Ben have stopped speaking to each other altogether.
The source told the outlet that “one of the little-known secrets is that Jennifer paid for a lot of their marriage expenses and now feels like he owes her” and is detailing the expenses he made during the relationship.
Lopez is mother to twins Emme and Maximilian, 16, with ex-husband Marc Anthony, 55, while Affleck is father to children Violet, 18, Fin, 15, and Samuel, 12, with ex-wife Jennifer Garner, 52.
Affleck also did not want his love letters to Lopez to be made public in his new film The Greatest Love Story Never Told.
‘Bennifer’ quickly became Hollywood’s ‘ideal couple’ of the early 2000s.
But their whirlwind romance came to an end in early 2004, when she and the Armageddon star abruptly called off their engagement.
In her Amazon Prime Video documentary, Jennifer shed light on their tumultuous initial two-year relationship, which garnered a lot of public attention and put a strain on the couple.
“Ben and I broke up three days before our wedding and we crumbled under the pressure,” she revealed to the cameras.
‘I was heartbroken when I lost the love of my life, my best friend, and I couldn’t speak for many years and that was the hardest part.
‘I used to think it was everyone else who was broken, now I think it was just me.’
The stars seen together during an NBC Dateline interview on July 13, 2003 in Vancouver, Canada
After 17 years apart and two failed marriages, Ben and Jennifer decided to rekindle their romance in May 2021.
“We’re totally different people now and we’re equal and we have the same 100 percent love. Like I never fell out of love with (Ben),” Jennifer confessed in 2024’s The Greatest Love Story Never Told.
Ben popped the question in April 2022 with a stunning green diamond engagement ring that had “Not. Going. Anywhere” engraved on the band.
It was special to Jennifer because “it was the way he signed his emails when we first started talking again,” she told Apple Music’s Zane Lowe in November 2022.
In July 2022, Ben and Jennifer tied the knot at a Las Vegas wedding chapel.
The following month, the couple held a star-studded wedding ceremony at Ben’s sprawling Georgia compound.
Although the split rumors didn’t peak until 2024, fans of the couple began speculating that Ben was “miserable” in the relationship in 2023.
This was largely due to Ben’s apparent dislike of the red carpet festivities Jennifer frequented, as well as several seemingly heated interactions that were caught on camera.
