After a relationship that spanned two decades, two engagements, two weddings and headlines too numerous to count, has filed for divorce from .

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Court records showed Lopez filed the petition Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court. The news was first reported by the TMZ website. TMZ reported further that Lopez listed the date of separation as April 26, 2024. It added that she did not mention any prenuptial agreement.

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The couple had flown to Las Vegas, lined up with their license with four other couples and were wed just after midnight at A Little White Wedding Chapel, where Lopez said a Bluetooth speaker played their brief march down the aisle. She called it the best night of the couple含羞草研究社檚 lives.

A month later, they had a at Affleck含羞草研究社檚 house in Georgia, in front of friends and family.

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Both of them had been previously married. Affleck, 52, married with whom he shares three children, in 2005. They

Lopez, 55, had been She was briefly married to Ojani Noa from 1997-1998 and to Cris Judd from 2001-2003. She and singer were married for a decade, having wed in 2004, and share 14-year-old twins. She started dating former baseball player in 2017, but the couple

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Affleck himself expressed admiration for her self-possession, with the idea that Hollywood was unsure how to capitalize on her wide-ranging talent.

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In May, she starred in the Netflix movie 含羞草研究社淎tlas.含羞草研究社� At the end of the month, she her 2024 North American tour, saying she was 含羞草研究社渉eartsick and devastated含羞草研究社� to be letting fans down but the move was necessary. 含羞草研究社淛ennifer is taking time off to be with her children, family and close friends,含羞草研究社� organizers said in a statement.

Lopez described love in her latest album, 含羞草研究社楾his is Me含羞草研究社� Now含羞草研究社�

The tour was to be her first in five years, in support of her first solo album in a decade, and . a fictionalized look at her long love life, and a documentary.

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But the road was rocky. In an early scene, The Artist is on the back of a motorcycle, riding across a beach, with a hunky man, face shielded. Then the motorcycle crashes.

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