Hollywood Superstars Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck have married Las VegasAccording to reports.
The couple, who were engaged in the early 2000s before separating for 17 years, tied the knot on Saturday, according to a Clark County marriage certificate, NBC News reported.
Clark County records show that the license was issued July 16 to Benjamin Geza Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, also identified in the filings as Jennifer Affleck.
And the couple wasted no time by loudly already getting married entertainment tonight and TMZ.
The couple first met on the set of the film Gigli in 2002 and got engaged in 2003 before calling it quits in 2000 after blaming “excessive media attention” for the split.
It is the fourth marriage for Lopez and the second for Affleck, who was previously married to actress Jennifer Garner.
Lopez has 14-year-old twins Emme and Max with ex-husband Marc Anthony. Affleck has three children with Garner — Violet, 16, Seraphina, 13, and Samuel, 10.
They were romantically linked in early 2021 following the pop star’s split from former New York Yankees player Alex Rodriguez. They made their relationship public last July.
Lopez announced her engagement to Affleck in April 2022.
In February she told persons Magazine on the differences in the couple’s relationship after nearly two decades of separation.
“We’re older now, we’re smarter, we’ve got more experience, we’re in different places in our lives, we have kids now, and we have to be very aware of these things,” she said.
And she added: “It’s a beautiful outcome that this has happened in this way at this point in our lives where we can really appreciate and celebrate and respect each other.
“We’ve always done that, but we appreciate it all the more because we know that life can take you in different directions.”
And in her April fan newsletter, she detailed Affleck’s bubble bath proposal.
“Have you ever imagined that your biggest dream could come true?” she wrote.
“Saturday night while I was in my favorite place on earth (in the bubble bath), my beautiful love got on one knee and proposed. I was totally unprepared and just looked him in the eyes smiling and crying while trying to rack my brains that this was happening again 20 years later. I was literally speechless and he said, ‘Is that a yes?’ I said YES, of course that’s a YES.”
“I was smiling so wide and tears were streaming down my face, I felt so incredibly happy and whole. It wasn’t anything special, but it was the most romantic thing I could have ever imagined… just a quiet Saturday night at home, two people who promised to always be there for each other.”
The Independent has reached out to Lopez representatives for comment.
