Jennifer Lopez has filed for divorce from husband Ben Affleck after two years of marriage.
According to BBC News, Lopez filed the divorce papers on Tuesday (August 20) in the Los Angeles County Superior Court and listed the date of separation as April 26, 2024.
The publication also reports that that there in no prenuptial agreement, meaning the former couple must share financial information, including their income, expenses, properties and debts.
Digital Spy has reached out to representatives for Lopez and Affleck for comment.
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Lopez and Affleck first dated and got engaged in 2002, though eventually went their separate ways in 2004.
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The pair rekindled their romance in 2021 and tied the knot in a Las Vegas wedding in July 2022, before celebrating in a larger wedding ceremony in Georgia the following month.
Rumours of their second separation first began circulating earlier this year. In May, Lopez attended a Q&A session with her co-star Simu Liu to promote their Netflix movie Atlas, and was asked by someone in the crowd if there was any truth to the divorce rumours with Affleck.
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"Your divorce with Ben Affleck is real? What is the truth?" the person asked, to which Liu replied: "OK, we're not doing that."
After Lopez laughed and responded "You know better than that", Liu came to her defence once again, adding: "Don't come in here with that energy, please."
Last year, Lopez and Affleck celebrated their rekindled relationship by getting some matching tattoos for Valentine's Day.
Lopez's tattoo features an infinity sign with the couple's names and an arrow through it, while Affleck's tattoo consists of two crossed arrows along with the initials 'J' and 'B'.
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