Jennifer Lopez Announces Engagement to Ben Affleck
Sun Nov 10, 2:01 PM ET
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Jennifer Lopez (news) is engaged to be married to actor Ben Affleck (news), the singer-actress revealed during a television interview to be aired later this week.
The announcement, made during an interview with Diane Sawyer of ABC News, follows weeks of media speculation which was heightened earlier this month when Lopez showed off to television cameras a pink diamond on her ring finger.
The two met on the set of mob comedy Gigli last year and also recently co-starred in a romantic comedy Jersey Girl. Both films are due to be released next year.
Californian Affleck, 30, who has never been married, will become 32-year-old New Yorker Lopez’s third husband.
The couple cannot be married until Lopez’s divorce from her second husband, dancer Cris Judd, is finalized in late January. Lopez filed for divorce in late July, citing irreconcilable differences after less than a year of marriage.
Report has circulated that the couple may marry on Valentine’s Day (news – web sites), Feb. 14, and Lopez confirmed during the interview they visited a Boston church together recently.
The interview, taped recently in Manhattan and Lopez’s old Bronx neighborhood, will air on Wednesday on ABC television’s “Primetime: Special Edition.”
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Lopez turned to Judd after splitting with long-time boyfriend, rapper Sean “P.Diddy” Combs, during his much publicized trail in New York on weapons and bribery charges. Combs was later acquitted.
Her first marriage to Ojani Noa ended in divorce in 1998 after about a year.
Affleck, who shared a best original screenplay Oscar with long-time friend Matt Damon (news) for the 1997 movie Good Will Hunting, checked himself into a clinic for treatment of alcohol abuse last year.