The marriage of Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck, which started with a bang in 2003, has hit its rock bottom. Exactly twenty years later, Jennifer Lopez filed for divorce with Ben Affleck on August 20, making the celebrity couple’s relationship a saga of two.

Bennifer’s two breakups have some similarities and differences. The first engagement ended in 2004 while their current marriage is just two years old and beginning to dissolve.

Prior to their official split, they never let people know where they stood with each other.

This was them…before: For example, in the summer of 2003 — when Gigli was being ripped apart as a ‘bad’ movie” and you had Affleck’s strippers club made headlines—there were rumors about troubled romance between the engaged couple. Then suddenly just before the planned wedding on September 14th 2003 that was to take place at Santa Barbara California; they cancelled because of “too much attention from media.” From then on the relationship became like roller coasters until they finally made it known four months later around January 2004 that they had separated.

These are them … now: May 2024 saw whispers about the state of this union that tied the knot in July 2022 after restarting their love. Affleck left behind their luxurious house worth $68 million while Lopez was spotted searching for property and attending parties devoid of any companion. It has been a long period of uncertainty concerning whether they were together or not until she applied for a divorce on August 20. She indicated that they separated on April 26 and not later than four months before this.

The relationship didn’t last long at all before they split up.
Earlier: Bennifer only had 18 months before they stopped dating in 2004.

Recently: Bennifer 2.0 was three years of romance before it hit the rocks again. Almost two decades after that they went separate ways, Affleck reached out via email to Lopez who was recently divorced in April 2021 making them start dating again but their relation ended secretly by April 2024 as stated by Lopez in her divorce papers. It has been exactly two years today from the time they had a wedding in Georgia which was their marriage ceremony formal.

Lopez and Affleck first ended their relationship in 2004
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Here’s a comparison of how the two separated from their partners
Then: Lopez’s publicist told the world through her publicist. “I am confirming the reports that Jennifer Lopez has broken off an engagement with Ben Affleck,” said the statement. At this hard moment we ask that you give her peace,” it went on. On his part, Affleck’s spokesman said, “I cannot confirm anything regarding his private life. We do not want to get entangled in a no-win situation. Everyone wants to have a clash. It will not take place from our end.”

Now: Until now, Lopez has chosen silence for the way she has filed for divorce but there are no official announcements yet until now except for certain individuals who say things like: “She tried really hard to make things work and is shattered” or “She was done waiting”.

The first one who used to move out, twice.
Then: Affleck and Lopez While filming were alongside one another while Jersey Girl was being filmed in Philadelphia within 2002 before they made Lopez’s home in Los Angeles their own when the film was done. When it came time for them to part ways, he transferred out as instructed and stayed with friends until he found an abode to rent. He told Rolling Stone magazine during an interview sometime in 2004 that he and Nelly battled for the same rental place but it was eventually obtained by the rapper.

Now: As they spent millions on their dream Bel-Air house which is now on sale, Ben Affleck moved out to a rental costing him $100,000 per month after he separated from Jennifer Lopez in April. He later bought himself another house in L.A. whose price tag read at 20.5 million dollars while Lopez is said to be still hunting for her new pad.

They moved onto other high-profile romances within one year.
Then: After getting married to her third husband Marc Anthony in June 2004, Lopez soon married another celebrity. By October that year, Affleck had already made his relationship with Pearl Harbor and Daredevil co-star Jennifer Garner public.