Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck were secretly married, TMZ writes, citing court documents she’s found.
The couple received their marriage license yesterday, July 16, at a court in Clark County, Nevada. The document shows the official names of the spouses – Benjamin Geza Affleck and Jennifer Lynn Lopez.
“They did it like a few teenagers who ran into the desert to say yes,” TMZ writes, referring to the Nevada desert.
Officially, the celebrities have not yet announced the marriage, but broadcast sources said that the wedding took place. Before that, the couple was already busy arranging a life together: the paparazzi constantly noticed them on family trips with children, and the couple chose a house together. Realtors rated the option they liked at $60 million.TMZ reported that the house was previously owned by Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman.
HollywoodLife previously wrote that the Bennifer couple’s wedding will take place in Los Angeles in late summer or early fall.
It was noted that Lopez and Affleck are planning a big celebration where they will invite many guests, including Affleck’s ex-wife and their two daughters and son, actress Jennifer Garner. The source of the publication emphasized that a good relationship between the singer and the actor is important for Ben’s children.
get engaged
The couple’s engagement was announced in April. Jennifer Lopez talks about how Ben Affleck proposed to her.
“Have you ever dreamed that your biggest dream could come true? Saturday night I was in my favorite place in the world – in a bubble bath. Then my girlfriend came, got down on one knee and proposed to me. I took off the ring and said, “Will you marry me?” said. – said the singer.
After the paparazzi noticed an engagement ring on Jennifer Lopez’s finger. The singer was photographed shopping with her daughter Emma at a furniture store.
The stone in the Lopez ring weighs 8.5 carats. Diamond Pro CEO Mike Fried told Page Six that a green diamond of this size is very rare. According to her, the ring is worth about $10 million. Lopez has repeatedly said in an interview that green is her lucky color.
Jeweler Ilan Portugali of Beverly Hills Diamonds, the creator of the ring, personally congratulated the couple, saying that among the fancy colored diamonds, rich green stones are among the rarest and most sought after.
“Green synchronizes nature and tranquility, represents life, health, and is associated with good luck and prosperity,” the expert said.
20 years break
Affleck first proposed to Jennifer Lopez in 2002, but the couple called off the engagement the day before the wedding.
“We were so in love with each other, it was a great time, but we were constantly criticized and it ruined our relationship from the inside, we were still too young to understand that and deal with the negativity and gossip.” It was revealed in a Rolling Stone interview.
After Affleck married Jennifer Garner, with whom they had three children together, Lopez married singer Marc Anthony, and the couple had two children.
In 2021, almost two decades later, the celebrities reunited.
In February, Jennifer admitted in an interview with People magazine that she had never felt better and had an “absolutely wonderful moment in her life.”
“I feel so happy! I’m happy and proud to be with her,” the singer said of her relationship with Affleck. “This is a beautiful love story where we get a second chance,” she said.
“When you meet someone and you really love them and you get a second chance? It’s a really rare, precious, beautiful thing and we don’t take it lightly,” Lopez said.
According to her, she wants to teach her children to believe that true love exists.
Source: Gazeta
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