The couple, who were engaged in the early 2000s before being separated for 17 years, were married Saturday according to their Clark County marriage license, NBC News reported. Clark County records show the permit was issued July 16 to Benjamin Geza Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, who is also listed as Jennifer Affleck in the documents. And the couple wasted no time getting married already, according to Entertainment Tonight and TMZ. The couple first met on the set of 2002’s Gigli and got engaged in 2003 before calling it quits in 200, blaming “too much 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 Em 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 after the pop star split from former New York Yankees player Alex Rodriguez. They went public with their relationship last July. Lopez revealed her engagement to Affleck in April 2022. In February, she opened up to People magazine about the differences in the couple’s relationship after nearly two decades apart. “We’re older now, we’re smarter, we have more experience, we’re in different places in our lives, we have kids now, and we have to be very aware of those things,” she said. He added: “It’s a beautiful outcome that this happened in this way at this time in our lives where we can really appreciate and celebrate each other and respect each other. “We always have, but we appreciate it even 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. “Did you ever imagine that your biggest dream could come true?” she wrote “On Saturday night while I was in my favorite place on earth (in the bubble bath), my beautiful love got down on one knee and proposed. I was completely unprepared and I looked into his eyes smiling and crying at the same time trying hard to comprehend the fact that after 20 years this was happening again I was literally speechless and he said, “is this is yes? I said YES, of course that’s a YES.” “I was smiling so big and tears were streaming down my face, I felt so incredibly happy and fulfilled. It wasn’t anything fancy, but it was the most romantic thing I could imagine… just a quiet Saturday night at home, two people promising to always be there for each other.” The Independent has contacted Lopez’s representatives for comment.
