Ben Affleck emerges after breaking silence on Jennifer Lopez split while she takes big step to move on
Ben Affleck had a big smile on his face while stepping out in Los Angeles on Tuesday.
The 52-year-old actor appeared to be in high spirits, with a Diet Coke in hand, after parking his car and headed to go meet up with his colleagues.
For his outing, the Batman star — who recently shed some light on the breakdown of his marriage to singer-actress Jennifer Lopez — wore one of his favorite, cozy cardigans.
He layered the gray, jacquard knit over a light-colored button-down shirt and completed his look with gray slacks and taupe, suede boots.
At one point, he flashed a big smile while chatting to the people meeting up with him.
The A-list star’s outing in LA comes amid news that Lopez has finally purchased a new home for herself after finalizing their divorce in January.
According to property records uncovered by PEOPLE, the beauty, 55, dropped $18 million on a new abode ‘near Los Angeles.’
This comes after nearly a year of house hunting and Lopez being photographed touring multi-million dollar mansions in Beverly Hills, Bel-Air and other upscale LA neighborhood.
In January, TMZ reported that Lopez had been eyeing an ‘off-market mansion’ in Affleck’s neck of the woods, Brentwood.
Affleck snapped up a five-bedroom bachelor pad in the area for just over $20million in July 2024.
While Lopez finally has a place to call home, she and Affleck have yet to offload their $68million martial mansion in Beverly Hills.
They’ve been trying to sell the sprawling property, which they purchased in 2023 for $60million, since June 2024 — two months before Lopez officially filed for divorce.
TMZ previously reported that the couple had a promising buyer in September but that they sale fell through after it went into escrow.
While letting go of the home they once shared has been a headache, Affleck recently insisted to British GQ that he and Lopez’s short-lived marriage was ‘no soap opera.’
