Jennifer Lopez files for divorce from Ben Affleck in court

It’s over. After months of making headlines about their separation, singer Jennifer Lopez has filed for divorce from her husbandBen Affleck. This week she and the actor celebrated two years of marriage.

According to the American portal TMZthe New York artist On Tuesday he submitted the documents requesting his divorce in the Superior Court of Los Angeles County (California, USA).

He points out that the ‘diva of the Bronx’ did not present the documents through a lawyer but rather She did the paperwork herself.

According to the portal, Lopez established in the legal document the date of her separation from her partner on April 26, just over a week before the May 6 Gala at the Metropolitan Museum, which she attended alone, giving rise to rumors about her marriage.

He last public event they attended together It was a Los Angeles Lakers game on March 16.

In fact, The second wedding anniversary, last July, was not celebrated because they were apparently already separated.which apparently happened since May when it was reported that the actor and director had left the $60 million residence he shared with Lopez.

According to reports, allegedly Affleck prefers a quiet life, away from the mediawhile his wife enjoys the media attention.

After leaving home, Affleck rented a property near where they live the children he had with actress Jennifer Garner from where he continued working on his projects and then bought a house.

While Lopez focused on her children Max and Emmewhich she had with the singer Mark Anthony, with whom she traveled to Japan and spent the summer in the Hamptons in New York where she celebrated her birthday in style, without the presence of her husband and attending concerts and fashion events.

Lopez and Affleck met while filming Gigli in early 2002, but she was married to her second husband, dancer Cris Juddfrom whom she filed for divorce in July 2002.

The celebrity couple got involved in a relationship that year but days before getting married, in September 2003, they postponed the wedding and blamed it on the “excessive media attention.”

A few months later, in January 2004, They called off the engagement and separated, remembers TMZ