Following Jennifer Lopez’s divorce filing from Ben Affleck Tuesday, Dailymail.com is taking a closer look at what Lopez was doing on the day she listed as their separation date – Friday, April 26, 2024.
The A-lister, 55, was pictured that day leaving The Whitman – a luxury boutique condominium that overlooks Manhattan – while on a solo trip to her native New York City.
She emerged with a with a face like thunder – pursing her lips and furrowing her brow.
She had dressed for comfort in a beige sweater and baggy denim blue jeans, with brown shoes and her locks sleekly pulled back.
Her tense appearance hinted at the private heartbreak on the horizon with Tuesday’s divorce filing, and the months of speculation leading up to it.
The singer-actress, 55, filed divorce docs to end her marriage to Affleck without an lawyer in Los Angeles County Superior Court Tuesday.
Following Jennifer Lopez’s divorce filing from Ben Affleck, 52, Tuesday, Dailymail.com is taking a closer look at what Lopez, 55, was doing on the day she listed as their separation date – April 26, 2024
The actress had a face like thunder as she emerged from The Whitman – a luxury boutique condominium – in Manhattan
Tuesday’s filing came after months of speculation swirling around the relationship between the A-list singer-actress and actor-director, 52, with their relationship woes dominating the Hollywood headlines in recent months.
In court docs, Lopez said she was waiving spousal support and requested the court not give Affleck any either, according to the outlet.
Lopez and Affleck ‘have been trying to hash out a settlement for months,’ according to the outlet, adding that insiders said that the negotiations have been ‘increasingly acrimonious’ at times, with the two not taking to one another directly.
Lopez filed the documents on the two-year anniversary of their nuptials at Affleck’s estate outside of Savannah, Georgia on August 20, 2022.
The perennial A-lister was pictured that day in her native NYC donning a wooly beige sweater and baggy denim blue jeans, with brown shoes and her locks sleekly pulled back
The Atlas star accessorized with shaded sunglasses and large hoop earrings on the outing with a dark blue purse on the sunny day in the Big Apple
Lopez carried a huge Birkin bag
Affleck was seen in Los Angeles looking apprehensive six days later, on Thursday, May 2
Lopez is mother to twins Emme and Maximilian, 16, with ex-husband Marc Anthony, 55; while Affleck is father to children Violet, 18, Fin, 15, and Samuel, 12, with ex-wife Jennifer Garner, 52.
Affleck and Lopez exchanged vows at the Little White Chapel in Las Vegas on July 16, 2022.
‘In the end it was the best possible wedding we could have imagined,’ Lopez said in her newsletter On the JLo on July 17, 2022. ‘One we dreamed of long ago and one made very real (in the eyes of the state, Las Vegas, a pink convertible and one another) at very, very, long last.’
The couple again exchanged vows at Affleck’s estate outside of Savannah, Georgia on August 20, 2022, two years to the day prior to Lopez’s divorce filing Tuesday.
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