How Did Bennifer Get Here? A Complete Timeline of Jennifer Lopez & Ben Affleck’s Rumored Divorce

It was supposed to be their fairytale ending. The couple affectionately known as “Bennifer” rekindled their romance in April 2021 after first falling for each other in the early 2000s, but amid a frenzy of speculation that their marriage is over, Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck’s divorce timeline makes us feel really sad.

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J-Lo and Ben met in 2001 on the set of their movie, Gigli , in which they played love interests. They started dating in 2002, around the time Ben also starred as the love interest in the music video for J-Lo’s song, “Jenny From the Block.”

In November 2002, Ben proposed to J-Lo with a 6.1-carat pink diamond ring from Harry Winston, and the two got engaged. Two days before they were scheduled to tie the knot in September 2003, J-Lo and Ben announced that they had postponed their wedding and eventually called it off.

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J-Lo and Ben got engaged for a second time in April 2022 and married in July 2022 at the Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada. “We did it. Love is beautiful. Love is kind. And it turns out love is patient. Twenty years patient,” J-Lo wrote in her newsletter, On the J-Lo , at the time. She continued, “They were right when they said, ‘All you need is love’.”

Now, as their marriage is on the rocks if not certainly over, here’s a timeline of Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck’s relationship breakdown and the latest updates.

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