Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are finally married.
According to a marriage license in the online records of Clark County, Nevada, the couple’s official marriage was filed Saturday. The record is in his two legal names: Benjamin Geza Affleck and Jennifer Lynn Lopez. Significantly, the record also indicates that Jennifer Lopez took Affleck as her legal last name.
News of Lopez and Affleck’s engagement first came out in April. In an edition of Lopez’s newsletter “On the JLo,” the singer and actress shared a video with teary eyes for her fans as she wore a green diamond engagement ring. She wrote, “Saturday night while I was at my favorite place on earth (in a bubble bath), my beautiful love got on her knees and proposed to me.”
Lopez, 52, and Affleck, 49, were among the most prominent celebrity couples in the early 2000s. They made two films together. The first was 2003’s “Gigli,” which didn’t exactly turn on the box office. When the “Jersey Girl” directed by Kevin Smith hit theaters in 2004, the couple had already announced that they had separated. The couple became engaged for a long period of time, although they never officially married.
However, Lopez and Affleck met about a year ago and have since been seemingly inseparable. During their separation, Lopez married singer-songwriter Marc Anthony in 2004 before divorcing him in 2014. Affleck married actress Jennifer Garner in 2005. The two divorced in 2018.
In his professional life, Affleck won an Oscar for the winner of best film “Argo” and Lopez grew his fortune by touring, acting in movies and recording music. A year ago, they met again, coming out in public view, but without the same scrutiny of the celebrity press, which has evolved and become less critical since the turn of the century.
J. Kim Murphy contributed to this report.