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Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck aren’t Bennifer 2.0 any longer, but they might be sticking to the friend zone. The former duo, who captured the Hollywood gossip headlines, not once, but twice, aren’t going to be enemies after their divorce is settled.
Lopez and Affleck will have a “connected” friendship once their mediation with celebrity divorce attorney Laura Wasser is over. “They have every intention of continuing to be in each other’s lives despite not being romantically involved,” a Page Six source claimed. “Ben and Jennifer are still connected and they do communicate when it involves their kids.” In addition to their blended family, they’ve intertwined their professional lives.
Currently, the 52-year-old Oscar winner is the producer on two of his ex’s projects, Unstoppable, and the highly anticipated movie musical, Kiss of the Spider Woman, which will premiere at Sundance in January 2025. “I just finished a movie called Kiss of the Spider Woman, where it was all singing and dancing, which was equal parts exhilarating and exhausting,” she said on Live With Kelly and Mark in May. “Now, I’m ready to go. I’m the thinnest I’ve ever been. I’m in fighting shape right now.”
The estranged couple have to navigate the financial details of their relationship with their $68 million Beverly Hills estate still up for sale. Lopez revealed earlier in the month that she was still living in the residence while Affleck relocated to a new $20.5 million Pacific Palisades home near his first ex-wife, Jennifer Garner. Affleck and Lopez thought they had a buyer for the home earlier in the fall, but TMZ revealed that the $64 million sale didn’t go through when a death in the potential new owners’ family halted the purchase in its tracks.
Once they do find a buyer for the home, the last of their financial ties will be wrapped up. Still, their children will likely keep them together in an amicable way. Lopez’s teen, Emme, 16, and Affleck’s child Fin, 15, have formed a strong bond and participate in school activities together. There are parents’ night at the school and the exes, along with Garner, are often spotted supporting their kids. Bennifer 2.0. may not have worked out the way fans had hoped, but a lovely friendship is the best ending after a split that anyone could hope for.
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