Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez in February 2024.
(Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images)When Jennifer Lopez And Ben Affleck After finalizing their divorce, they took their personal belongings with them.
The exes officially ended their marriage on Monday, January 6, according to documents obtained by Us every week. In doing so, both parties “agreed to divide all assets and liabilities” to avoid further litigation and expenses.
Lopez, 55, keeps all of their personal belongings and income from their date of separation – April 26, 2024 – as well as half of their bank accounts. Affleck, 52, gets the same thing. Per the settlement agreement, they will also share their $60 million Beverly Hills mansion, currently on the market, but the specific terms of the deal are sealed.
Upon divorce, Lopez retains her clothing, jewelry, and “miscellaneous personal effects in her possession, custody, or control,” as well as any assets she owns “individually or through entities of which (Lopez) is sole owner, member or shareholder”.
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Meanwhile, Affleck retains his stake in the production company Artists Equity which he founded with Matt Damon in November 2022. The agreement states that he “shall pay, indemnify and hold (Lopez) harmless from any liabilities, claims, debts, actions, causes of action and/or tax liabilities associated with” the company.
They settled their divorce through mediation in September. Lopez requested to remove “Affleck” from her last name and return her legal name to Jennifer Lynn Lopez.
The actress filed for divorce Affleck in August 2024. Instead of hiring a lawyer to submit documents on his behalf, Lopez submitted them herself on the two year anniversary of the couple’s wedding in Georgia, although the date of their separation was months earlier.
Divorce lawyer at the time Chris Melcher suggested in an interview with We that Lopez’s decision to file suit without an attorney was “intentional to send the message that this won’t be a fight.” Melcher posited that the duo may have “resolved most of the issues before going public with the record.”
Lopez and Affleck share a long history. They met on the set of the box office bomb Lily in 2001 and got engaged in November 2002. They headed down the aisle in September 2003, but called off their wedding days before the ceremony. They confirmed their separation in January 2004.
Sparks flew again when the couple – known as “Bennifer” – reconnected in May 2021 and got engaged again in April 2022. They exchanged vows in Vegas in July and hosted a second ceremony in Georgia the following month.
Lopez was previously married to Ojani Noah from 1997 to 1998, Cris Judd from 2001 to 2003 and Marc Antoine — with whom she shares twins Max and Emme — from 2004 to 2014. Affleck, for his part, was married to Jennifer Garner from 2005 to 2018, and they co-parent their three children, Violet, Seraphina and Samuel.
In May 2024, rumors of marital problems began circulating after Lopez and Affleck were not seen together in public for 47 days. We soon confirmed that Affleck had moved from their home.
A source exclusively told We in June that they could not “be on the same wavelength (and had) been discuss divorce optional. »
