Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck appear one step closer to filing for divorce.
According to TMZ, the struggling spouses hired real estate agent Santiago Arana to help them sell the $60 million Beverly Hills mansion they purchased just over a year ago.
A source told the same website that Lopez is also looking for a new residence.
Amid all the speculation that Lopez and Affleck are nearing the end of their marriage, this would be the most concrete sign yet that things are very wrong.
The aforementioned real estate agent has been gauging interest in the massive home for about two weeks now — which lines up with how long speculation about Bennifer’s death has been running rampant across the Internet.
In mid-May, for example, In Touch Weekly wrote that the couple’s divorce was “imminent.”
The tabloid explained at the time that Lopez hired a public relations firm and well-known divorce lawyer while considering whether or not to cut the romantic and legal chord in her latest union.
Affleck and Lopez went more than two months without being photographed in public earlier this spring.
They’ve made occasional appearances in recent days (watching a play together that featured one of Affleck’s sons, for example), but that hasn’t stopped the rumor mill from churning.
HARD.
“They’re not always on the same page,” a source previously told Entertainment Tonight, keeping things somewhat vague and adding:
“They both have a lot going on between taking care of their families and their work commitments and it can be a lot for them.”
In Mexico City to promote his new film at the end of last month Lopez was asked about a pending divorce.
“You know better than that,” she told the reporter who dared to bring up the subject at a press conference, refusing to go into details.
To be clear, neither actor has commented on the growing speculation.
But this real estate-based stock seems to speak louder than almost any of its words could.
Lopez and Affleck famously dated from 2002 to 2004, even getting engaged during that time before ending their relationship.
The two also married other people many years later.
But the celebrities rekindled their romance in 2021 and then eloped to Las Vegas in July 2022… before holding a star-studded wedding at Affleck’s compound outside Savannah, Georgia.
It looked like a real fairy tale.
But now we are forced to ask if the relationship has turned into a nightmare.
“They will never stop loving each other, but she can’t control him and he can’t change her,” In Touch reported not long ago, concluding simply:
“There’s no way this could have lasted.”
We will continue to provide updates on the estranged husband and wife until the seemingly inevitable day when they are no longer husband and wife.