Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez finally got married.
According to the marriage certificate in the online records for Clark County, Nevada, the official marriage of the couple was filed on Saturday. The record is in both their official names – Benjamin Geza Affleck and Jennifer Lynn Lopez. Significantly, the record also shows that Jennifer Lopez has taken Affleck as her legal last name.
News of Lopez and Affleck’s engagement first broke in April. In an edition of Lopez’s “On the JLo” newsletter, the singer and actress shared a teary-eyed video for her fans while wearing a green diamond engagement ring. She wrote: “On Saturday night while I was in my favorite place on earth (in a bubble bath) my beautiful love got down on one knee and proposed.”
Lopez, 52, and Affleck, 49, were among the most famous celebrity couples of the early 2000s. They did two films together. The first was 2003’s Gigli, which didn’t exactly set the box office on fire. By the time the Kevin Smith-directed Jersey Girl hit theaters in 2004, the couple had already announced their split. The couple was engaged for a long period of time, although they never officially married.
However, Lopez and Affleck got back together about a year ago and have been seemingly inseparable ever since. During their separation, Lopez married singer-songwriter Marc Anthony in 2004 before divorcing him in 2014. Affleck married actress Jennifer Garner in 2005. They divorced in 2018.
In their professional lives, Affleck won an Oscar for producing the best picture winner Argo, and Lopez made her fortune touring, appearing in films and recording music. A year ago, they found themselves back together, stepping into the public eye, but without the same scrutiny from the celebrity press, which has evolved and become less critical since the turn of the century.
J. Kim Murphy contributed to this report.
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