Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck married in 'super small' Las Vegas wedding
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Attention, Bennifer hive: Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck are reportedly married after they obtained a marriage license in Las Vegas, multiple sources confirm to PEOPLE.
Lopez and Affleck, who announced their engagement in April, obtained the license in Clark County, Nevada over the weekend. EW has reached out to Lopez and Affleck's reps for confirmation.
The couple, known jointly as Bennifer, met on set of their rom-com Gigli in 2001 and were engaged by late 2002. The two announced their split in 2004, citing the excessive media attention. Lopez and Affleck rekindled their romance in May 2021, ushering in the era of Bennifer 2.0.
Steve Granitz/FilmMagic Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez have reportedly obtained a marriage license in Las Vegas
Earlier this year, Affleck spoke to longtime pal Matt Damon about meeting and falling in love with Lopez for EW's January cover story, sharing that the media obsession surrounding their relationship led to major changes in Gigli. "The studio at the time was intoxicated with the idea, because I had begun having this relationship with Jennifer Lopez, which was selling a lot of magazines and appeared to generate a lot of enthusiasm," he said. "I didn't go into it blindly. I knew that Sean Penn and Madonna were a tabloid story when I was young. I knew that could happen."
"Jennifer and I happened to be together at a time where the whole industry of celebrity journalism, if you want to call it that, sort of exploded," Affleck continued. "But I thought, 'Sh—, this is really not how I had hoped to go, where I'm going to be, what? Famous for being an a--hole or a failure and not able to work?' I can't think of a worse outcome. Because I've never found any virtue in fame at all, short of like, I've probably gotten out of a couple of [traffic] tickets."
"I've gotten reservations at restaurants," he added. "But the whole point was to be able to do this job. That was it. Otherwise, what is it worth? It's corrosive. It changes the relationships you have with other people. But one of the things that time has shown me is that it is oftentimes those moments of crisis or pain or perspective that actually engender change. That are strong enough to make you to go, 'F--- it. Well, this doesn't work. I got to do something different.' I've definitely learned more from failure than I have from success."
Phillip Caruso/Columbia Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez in 'Gigli'
Lopez told PEOPLE in February how the relationship differed the second time around. "We're older now, we're smarter, we have more experience, we're at different places in our lives," she said. "We have kids now, and we have to be very conscious of those things." Lopez shares twins Emme and Max, both 14, with ex-husband Marc Anthony, while Affleck shares children Violet, 16, Seraphina, 13, and Samuel, 10, with ex-wife Jennifer Garner.
"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," Lopez said. "We always did, but we have even more of an appreciation because we know that life can take you in different directions. We have been in the game in the public eye long enough to know who we are as people and what really matters and what doesn't matter... We're just operating from a place of love and respect for everyone in our lives and that is very important to us. We know what the truth is [and] we hold it sacred."
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