After Ben Affleck Divorce, Jennifer Lopez Requests Name Change
Written by djfrosty on August 23, 2024
Jenny From the Block wants to go back to one. In a copy of her divorce filing from Ben Affleck filed on Tuesday (August 20) obtained by Billboard, Jennifer Lopez requested that her former name be restored. So, after two years as Jennifer Lynn Affleck, JLo asked the court to revert her name back to Jennifer Lynn Lopez.
Additionally, the This Is Me… Now singer asked the state of California to deny her and Affleck the chance to collect spousal support. While neither Lopez nor Affleck have made public statements on their split — which came precisely two years after their lavish wedding in Georgia — NBC News cited an unnamed source close to Lopez saying that the couple did not have a prenuptial agreement.
The dissolution of Lopez’s fourth marriage came after she and Affleck reunited and got engaged in 2022. Their unexpected get-back took place more than 20 years after they first got engaged following their meeting on the set of the widely panned film Gigli; the couple split two years later without marrying. Lopez was married to Ojani Noa from 1997-1998 and then to dancer Cris Judd from 2001-2003. She married singer Marc Anthony in 2004 and they were together for a decade, during which she gave birth to twins Emme and Max.
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In addition, Lopez was engaged to Yankees player Alex Rodriguez for three years (2019-2021) before she rekindled her romance with Affleck; the couple was commonly referred to by their celeb portmanteau: “Bennifer.” The story of their rebooted romance was chronicled in a pair of projects this year, one telling the story of her most recent album, the cameo-packed fictional retelling of their romance, This Is Me… Now: A Love Story, as well as the accompanying documentary, The Greatest Love Story Never Told.
In addition to taking fans behind the scenes of the making of the This Is Me… Now album — which featured several homages to her second Affleck love affair and served as a sequel to 2002’s Affleck-dedicated This Is Me… Then — the doc featured scenes of a taciturn-looking Affleck seemingly cringing at the sharing of his personal love notes to her.
Interest in the latter doc — which, like the fictional extended music video short film, was widely panned upon initial release — skyrocketed in the 24 hours after the divorce news broke. According to Luminate, U.S. viewership of the Prime Video movie jumped from 10.7k minutes watched on Tuesday’s filing date to 354.1k minutes watched on Wednesday (Aug. 21), marking a 3,000% increase in just one day.