Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck After the Wedding: From “Endless Honeymoon” to Divorce

October 24, 2022 Updated October 15, 2026 5 min read

The story

In October 2022 we wrote about Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck’s “endless honeymoon” and asked whether it was real or a performance. Four years on, I owe the question a better answer than the paparazzi could give. The honeymoon did end, the marriage ended two years later, and the most interesting part of the story turned out to be what the two of them said after it was over.

Two weddings and a newsletter

The facts of the beginning are not in dispute, because Lopez told them herself. The couple married at A Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas in July 2022, and Lopez announced it in her own newsletter, On the JLo, rather than through a publicist. A second, larger ceremony followed on August 20, 2022, at Affleck’s estate in Riceboro, Georgia. Her Instagram from those weeks is the closest thing to a primary record of the mood:

My read then and now: a woman who announces her own wedding in her own newsletter is not acting. She is telling the story before anyone else can, which is a different skill (and one Lopez has had for thirty years).

Paris, Milan and the long lens

The honeymoon itself was mostly documented by photographers rather than by the couple, which is why you will not find that footage here. They went to Paris with their children from previous relationships, then on to Italy, where they were photographed in Milan, and the agencies sent home pictures of cafés, hand-holding and a dinner that wrapped up the trip in late August.

Lopez at Vogue World, autumn 2026, from her Instagram. Photo: Instagram / @jlo

In 2022 we, like everyone else, read Affleck’s face in those photos as a mood report: tired here, cheerful there. I would not do that again. A man photographed on holiday by strangers with long lenses is allowed to look like a man on holiday, and none of it told us anything the couple later did not tell us themselves. The original version of this article also passed along “insider” claims about how in love they were. Those were never sourced, and they are gone.

Back in Los Angeles that autumn the couple attended the Ralph Lauren show together in matching black, a nod to the custom Ralph Lauren gown Lopez wore in Georgia.

“Living my Thomas Shelby fantasy”: Lopez in Dolce & Gabbana, autumn 2026, from her Instagram. Photo: Instagram / @jlo

How the honeymoon actually ended

On August 20, 2024, the second anniversary of the Georgia wedding, Lopez filed for divorce in Los Angeles County Superior Court. Her filing listed April 26, 2024, as the date of separation. The settlement was signed in January 2025, neither side pays spousal support, and the divorce became final on February 21, 2025, once California’s six-month waiting period ran out. They have no children together, so there was no custody to argue about, and from the outside, at least, there was no public fight.

Lopez in leopard print, autumn 2026, from her Instagram. Photo: Instagram / @jlo

The quiet is the part I find most adult about it. Two people who lived through the 2003 version of Bennifer, when the tabloids treated them as a punchline, ended the 2022 version with paperwork and almost no quotes.

What she said, what he said

Lopez spoke about it in September 2025 on CBS Sunday Morning while promoting Kiss of the Spider Woman, a film Affleck’s company Artists Equity backed. She said the movie “wouldn’t have been made if it wasn’t for him and Artists Equity. I will always give him that credit.” About the divorce she said: “it was the best thing that ever happened to me because it changed me,” and that it helped her “become more self aware.”

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Affleck’s turn came on October 7, 2026, in a Variety cover interview tied to his Netflix thriller Animals. Asked about Lopez’s work, he said: “I’m biased. I have an enormous amount of respect and admiration for what she can do.” At the film’s 2025 premiere he had already told E! News that she was “amazing, spectacular” in the role.

Read side by side, those are not the words of people who were acting in 2022. They read like two people who meant it, found out it did not work, and decided to be generous about it in public. That is rarer in Hollywood than a second wedding.

The rumors you will see this week

October 2026 has brought a fresh round of “sources say” stories: that Lopez and Affleck have been spending more time together, and separately that Lopez is dating Keith Urban. Neither has been confirmed by anyone involved, and neither has posted anything that supports it. We will write about either one when one of them says something on the record.

So, was the endless honeymoon real or acting? Here is my answer, four years late: it was real, it was not endless, and the best evidence was never the photos. It was the newsletter at the start and the interviews at the end, all in their own words, which is where this story should have been looking all along.

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The rumor

Reports that Lopez and Affleck are spending more time together again rely on unnamed sources.
Reports that Lopez is dating Keith Urban are unconfirmed by either of them.
Claims about how either felt during the honeymoon came from paparazzi photos and anonymous insiders, not from the couple.

What we know

The couple married in Las Vegas in July 2022, announced by Lopez in her On the JLo newsletter.
A second ceremony took place on August 20, 2022, in Riceboro, Georgia.
Lopez filed for divorce on August 20, 2024; the divorce was final on February 21, 2025.
Both have spoken warmly about each other on the record since the split.

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Victoria Lane Editor-in-chief

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