Ben Affleck purchases a new property while he and Lopez battle to sell their marital residence
Ben Affleck is making Pacific Palisades his home.
According to TMZ, the 51-year-old Academy Award winner closed escrow on a brand-new $20.5 million mansion in the beachside community.
With breakfast and dining areas, a separate family room, walk-in closets, a video room, a powder room, a guest house, and other features characteristic of a multi-million dollar home, the property boasts five bedrooms and six bathrooms.
This is the clearest indication yet that Affleck and 55-year-old Jennifer Lopez’s marriage might be ending in divorce.
The I Am This…After buying the mansion for $60 million in May of last year, the artist and Affleck advertised their Beverly Hills home for $68 million earlier this month, but they were unable to find a buyer right away.
Amidst rumors that they are living separately, they recently celebrated their second wedding anniversary apart.
Affleck had been renting a $100,000 monthly home near his ex-wife Jennifer Garner’s Brentwood home while Lopez remained in their marital residence.
Between 2005 and 2018, he and Garner, 52, were wed. Their children are Violet, 18, Fin, 15, and Samuel, 12 years old.
After Affleck and Lopez hadn’t been spotted together since late March, rumors about their marital problems started to spread in May.
«Ben already moved out and they’ll probably have to sell the dream house they spent two years searching for,» a source said to In Touch at the time.
They will always be in love, but neither she nor he can make the other stop loving them. It could not have continued in any way.
«You had better believe that [Jen] will turn it around if it is just a question of putting in the work,» a friend of Lopez’s who lives in Los Angeles stated to the Daily Mail.
According to the source, «she has thrown her heart and soul into her love story with Ben and will not give it up without a fight.» «There must be hope because there seems to be a lot of love there still,» I heard.
