How Many Times Has Jennifer Lopez Been Married?
Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck‘s names have been in the news a lot lately amid the reports that they were having marital issues. Then, on Aug. 20, 2024, multiple outlets reported that J.Lo offically filed for divorce from her husband of two years.
The couple first met in 2002 on the set of the film Gigli. They dated for a while and got engaged but after 18 months, they called it quits. In the years that followed, they married other people and started families before they got back together and tied the knot.
Here’s a look back at their past relationships and how many times they’ve been married.
How many times Lopez has been married
The “Jenny From the Block” singer was married three other times before she wed Affleck.
Lopez’s first husband was a Cuban waiter named Ojani Noa. The pair said “I do” in 1997 but their union ended less than a year later. Noa and Lopez have been involved in a few legal battles since their 1998 divorce as he tried to publish a book about her and threatened to release an intimate video of their honeymoon.
After her divorce was finalized, Lopez was in a high-profile relationship with rapper and record producer Sean “Diddy” Combs for two years. When they called it quits she began dating backup dancer Chris Judd. The two wed in September 2001 but split after a
JLo’s third marriage was to Marc Anthony. She and the fellow singer walked down the aisle in 2004 just a few months after her engagement with Affleck ended. Anthony and Lopez announced their split in 2011 and he filed for divorce in 2012. The former couple
How many times Affleck has been married
Before Lopez, Affleck was married to Jennifer Garner. They announced their separation in 2015 after 10 years together and officially filed for divorce in April 2017. They share three children Violet, Fin, and Samuel.
Affleck then began seeing Saturday Night Live producer Lindsay Shookus. They broke up for a bit in 2018 before rekindling their romance in 2019 but it didn’t last.
A source gave the reason for their split at the time saying: “She has a kid and an ex-husband and a job in New York and Ben has his family and a job in L.A., and while they love and respect each other, they just realized it wasn’t going to work.They really gave it another solid try.”
When JLo and Affleck tied the knot
Lopez and Affleck were romantically linked again after the singer ended her engagement with former Major League Baseball player Alex Rodriguez.
After dating for a bit, the pair got engaged again and made in down the aisle in not one but two weddings. Their first took place in Las Vegas in July 2022 followed by a honeymoon for several days in Paris. And their second wedding ceremony in August was a three-day extravaganza at Affleck’s sprawling estate in Riceboro, Georgia.
Although Lopez filed for divorce in August, she listed their date of separation as April 26, 2024, in court documents.
