Two decades after their first engagement, Ben Affleck put another anillo on Jennifer Lopez’s finger. The Shotgun Wedding star announced the happy news via her On the JLo newsletter in April 2022. Lopez showed off her new gorgeous green engagement ring in a video, whispering, “You’re perfect.” Lopez shared in one of her newsletters that green is her “lucky color.” “Maybe you can remember a certain green dress. I’ve realized there are many moments in my life where amazing things happened when I was wearing green,” she wrote. “It may be a coincidence, maybe not. But as I took a better look, I realized there are no coincidences.” The pair filed for a marriage license on July 16, 2022, and had a “super duper small” ceremony in Las Vegas with Lopez’s mom and twins present. Lopez and Affleck rekindled their romance in early 2021 after the “Love Don’t Cost a Thing” singer split from her ex-fiancé, Alex Rodriguez, earlier that year. Prior to their second engagement, the Hustlers actress opened up about her relationship with Affleck telling PEOPLE, “We’re older now, we’re smarter, we have more experience, we’re at different places in our lives, we have kids now, and we have to be very conscious of those things.” “It’s a beautiful outcome that this has happened in this way at this time in our lives where we can really appreciate and celebrate each other and respect each other,” she added. “We always did, but we have even more of an appreciation because we know that life can take you in different directions.” Well, life has brought these two back together! While Lopez has found amor, amor, amor again with Affleck, take a look back at her past relationships over the years…
Who has Jennifer Lopez been married to?
How many times has Jennifer Lopez been married?
Lopez has been married four times.
Ben Affleck
Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck met while filming their movie Gigli. Lopez confirmed her engagement to the actor—who made an appearance in the “Jenny From the Block” music video—in 2002. However, the Jersey Girl co-stars ended up parting ways in 2004 before ever walking down the aisle. Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images “It was probably my first big heartbreak, and to have one of my best friends who I’d known for years, who I actually love and did have chemistry with, come into my life and say, ‘I’m here’…What you need to know is, nobody can save you or heal you,” Lopez admitted to Maria Shriver in 2014 (via Us Weekly). “Only you can do that for you.” Affleck praised his ex-fiancée in 2021, telling InStyle, “I thought I had a good work ethic, but I was completely humbled and blown away by what she was committed to doing day in and day out, the seriousness in which she took her work, the quiet and dedicated way she went about accomplishing her goals, and then how she would go back and redouble her efforts.” Kevin Winter/Getty Images He continued, “She remains, to this day, the hardest-working person I’ve come across in this business. She has great talent, but she has also worked very hard for her success, and I’m so happy for her that she seems, at long last, to be getting the credit she deserves.” Much to the delight of Bennifer fans, the couple reunited in 2021 and got engaged in 2022 and married just months later!
Marc Anthony
Lopez’s third marriage was to Latin Grammy winner Marc Anthony, with whom she shares her twins Emme and Max. The singers tied the knot in 2004, before announcing their split in 2011. The pair finalized their divorce in 2014. During an appearance on The View back in 2017, the Wedding Planner actress called her and Anthony “great friends.” Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images “You know, Marc and I are good how we are right now. There’s a reason we’re not together, but we’re great friends,” she said. “We’re parents together and we’re even working on a Spanish-language album together. That has been even better for us cause actually, we met working. That’s where we really are magical, when we’re on stage together and stuff like that. That’s where we’re good, and so we leave it there.”
Cris Judd
Jennifer married her second husband, Cris Judd, in 2001. The pair met on the set of the “Love Don’t Cost a Thing” music video. “So when Jennifer walks in, I shake her hand and we kinda look at each other—and in my head, I’m like, ‘Oh my God, I’m going to marry this woman,’” he shared on an episode of Oprah: Where Are They Now? (via HuffPost). Barry King/Getty Images And Judd was right! Though less than a year after their wedding, Lopez filed for divorce in 2002. “Unfortunately, it just didn’t work out,” he later told Us Weekly of his marriage to J.Lo. Although the pair ultimately divorced, Lopez called her ex-husband “an amazing person” on Watch What Happens Live!, per Us.
Ojani Noa
Ojani Noa was Lopez’s first husband. The pair was married from 1997 to 1998. According to The Mirror, Noa met Lopez not long before her movie Selena when he was a waiter at a restaurant owned by Gloria Estefan.
How many times has Jennifer Lopez been engaged?
Lopez has been engaged six times, including twice to Affleck!
Alex Rodriguez
J-Rod officially called off their engagement in 2021. “We have realized we are better as friends and look forward to remaining so,” the former couple said in a statement to TODAY. “We will continue to work together and support each other on our shared businesses and projects. We wish the best for each other and one another’s children. Out of respect for them, the only other comment we have to say is thank you to everyone who has sent kind words and support.” Rich Fury/Getty Images The former couple, who began dating in 2017, got engaged in 2019. Lopez and Rodriguez were set to tie the knot in 2020, but their wedding was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While in quarantine, the singer and A-Rod underwent therapy. “We got to work on ourselves. We did therapy,” she revealed to Allure in her March 2021 cover story. “I think it was really helpful for us in our relationship.”
Who else has Jennifer Lopez dated?
Drake
Before A-Rod, there was apparently Drake. According to PEOPLE, the duo sparked romance rumors in December of 2016, after the rapper was spotted at Lopez’s Vegas show. Though in February of 2017, an insider close to the rapper told PEOPLE that Drake and Lopez were “never very serious.” “They like one another and had fun together," the source said. “It was and is fun when they see each other,” adding, “They love hanging out and making music together. [Jennifer] has great respect for him and his talent and he does for her as well.” Lopez addressed the photo of her and Drake cuddling, telling Ellen DeGeneres that they were “just hanging out."
Casper Smart
Perhaps one of Lopez’s most famous exes is Casper Smart. The “Let’s Get Loud” singer credited her backup dancer, who was 18 years her junior, with helping her heal after her split from husband Marc Anthony. Bruce Glikas/Getty Images “I just got out of a big, heavy, devastating thing, and he’s helped me heal,” she told PEOPLE in 2011. “He’s been there for me.” Smart spoke about his relationship with the mom of two, telling E! News in 2012, “It was really professional for a very long time before anything even happened.” He added, “It just really spontaneously happened. The chemistry was there. You can’t fight it.” The on-again, off-again couple officially split in 2016 after nearly five years of dating, per reports.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs
Diddy once compared his and Lopez’s relationship to that of Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner’s, or Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe’s. He told Vanity Fair (via Entertainment Weekly), “Sometimes, when two people get together, you feel a certain type of spark that’s like, ‘Yo!”’ The performers began dating in 1999 and split in 2001. Next, are you a J.Lo fan? Check out 20 of Jennifer Lopez’s best songs.
