“We have a crazy SOB that guy, Putin, others. And we always have to be worried about a nuclear conflict. But the existential threat to humanity is climate,” Biden told those gathered at the fundraiser.

In response to Biden’s comments, the Kremlin on Thursday said they were a “huge disgrace” for the United States.

Biden also criticized former President Donald Trump’s comments likening his legal troubles to the death of Russian opposition leader and Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny. The president paraphrased his predecessor’s comments before telling the attendees that “if I stood here 10 to 15 years ago and said all this, you’d all think I should be committed.”

“He’s comparing himself to Navalny and saying that because our country’s become a communist country, he was persecuted, just like Navalny was persecuted. Where the hell does this comes from,” Biden said, according to reporters in the room. “If I stood here 10 to 15 years ago and said all this, you’d all think I should be committed. … It’s astounding.”

In stark contrast to Biden and other Western leaders, Trump, the 2024 Republican presidential front-runner, has yet to condemn Russia or Putin for Navalny’s death.

In recent weeks, Trump has also indicated several times that he would not defend a NATO country from a Russian attack if the country doesn’t meet spending guidelines on defense — a comment Biden slammed as an “admission that he intends to give Putin a green light for more war and violence”

Trump “is making it clear that he will abandon our NATO allies,” Biden added following the former president’s comments earlier this month.

When asked about the US president’s comments by a reporter for state-owned network Russia 1, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, “I can say that such rude statements from the head of the U.S. state are unlikely to offend in any way the head of another country, especially President Putin but this is a huge disgrace for the country, I mean for the United States of America.”

“So, if the president of such a country uses such language, it should be shameful,” he added.

“Clearly, Mr. Biden is demonstrating behavior in the style of a Hollywood cowboy to cater to domestic political interests.”

At a second fundraiser in San Francisco, Biden called Republicans in Congress the “party of chaos and division” and said they are “worse” than Strom Thurmond, a former South Carolina senator who ran for president as a segregationist in 1948.

“I’ve been a senator since ‘72. I’ve served with real racists. I’ve served with Strom Thurmond. I’ve served with all these guys that have set terrible records on race. But guess what? These guys are worse. These guys do not believe in basic democratic principles,” Biden said according to the pool traveling with him. “Time and again Republicans show they are the party of chaos and division.”

Biden also sought to draw further contrast with Trump, telling attendees that nine heads of state have told him, “You’ve got to win” in November.

“As I walk out of meetings, a head of state will find an excuse to come up close … and say, ‘You’ve got to win.’ Not because I’m so special. ‘You’ve got to win because my democracy is at stake if the other guy wins.’ Nine heads of state have done that with me,” Biden said, according to pool reporters.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi attended one of the fundraisers where the president was introduced by venture capitalist John Doerr, according to the White House.

Biden is expected to appear at another campaign event Thursday in Los Altos Hills, California, before returning to the White House in the evening.

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Ms Butina said on social media platform X (formerly Twitter) that she has asked Russia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs if the party complied with Russia’s prohibition of LGBTQ+ “propaganda”, or violated the order outlining “traditional Russian spiritual and moral values”.

Yekaterina Mizulina, the head of pressure group Free Internet League, called for a boycott of the attendees.

“Such hangouts are a shot in the foot of the entire policy pursued by the state. The partygoers live in a different world than the rest of the country,” she wrote on Telegram, as per Moscow Times.

“These people should be boycotted at the state level,” she further said.

The police raided the nightclub on the second day of the party, after which guests were seen “way more dressed”, the outlet further said.

Ms Ivleeva, meanwhile, mocked the criticism, saying on Telegram that same people “like to look at beautiful, slender western models” but raise eyebrows when something like this happens inside Russia. Russian outlets claimed men were kissing on the dance floor and nude images were projected.

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“I’m not an Insurrectionist,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, specifically pointing to his comments on Jan. 6 in which he encouraged supporters to march to the Capitol “peacefully and patriotically.”

Trump also claimed Biden is an insurrectionist and a threat to democracy, continuing a pattern in which the former president accuses his opponents and critics of the same thing he is accused of doing.

In a Tuesday ruling, the Colorado Supreme Court in a 4-3 decision affirmed Trump engaged in insurrection by inflaming his supporters with false claims of election fraud and directing them to the Capitol — preventing him from a second White House term under the 14th Amendment’s “insurrection clause.” 

Trump supporters violently stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to try to stop the certification of Biden’s victory in the 2020 election.

Trump’s campaign has said it will appeal the Colorado ruling.

Biden on Wednesday declined to weigh in on the court’s decision or on whether Trump should be removed from the ballot. But he said it was “self-evident” Trump supported an insurrection.

“Whether the 14th Amendment applies or not, we’ll let the court make that decision,” Biden said. “But he certainly supported an insurrection. There’s no question about it. None. Zero. And he seems to be doubling down on it.”

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Ortiz’s former husband Jaime Del Burgo, 53, currently based in the UK, recently contributed to a tell-all book about the 51-year-old Spanish royal, in which he makes the far-fetched claim that he and Letizia were still romantically involved after her 2004 wedding to Felipe. 

The entrepreneur – who claims he was dating Letizia when she first met the heir to the Spanish throne – also shared a selfie the Queen took in a mirror during one of her pregnancies as ‘evidence’ of their relationship on X, formerly known as Twitter, last night. A spokesperson for the Spanish royals told FEMAIL: ‘We have no comment to make about this.’  

It isn’t the first time the spotlight has shone on the complicated love lives of the Spanish monarchy – with the course of true love running anything but smoothly for many of the family members. 

Former Spanish king, Juan Carlos I, now 85, has been dogged for decades by rumours of countless infidelities during his marriage to Queen Sofia. 

Two of the marriages of Juan Carlos and Sofia’s three children – Felipe and his sisters Elena, 59, and Cristina, 58, – have ended in divorce; Cristina’s falling apart last year following her husband Inaki Urdangarin’s 2018 jail term for financial crimes. 

The sensational claims by Jaime Del Burgo, the ex husband of Queen Letizia’s sister Telma, have seen him allege that he was ‘dating’ Letizia before he married Telma.

This week he’s claimed that the Spanish Queen eventually ended their relationship – abruptly – by calling him and saying: ‘We can’t continue seeing each other’ in August 2011, seven years after she wed the Spanish monarch.  In 2012, Del Borgo got engaged to Letizia’s younger sister Telma.  

Telma, who already had her daughter Amanda from her relationship with ex-partner Enrique Martin Llop, accepted the proposal after just two months of dating.

At this time, Jaime claims he was still close to Letizia and Felipe. Author Jaime Peñafiel wrote in his new book Letizia & I: ‘When [Jaime del Burgo] is going to marry Telma, it is Felipe who advises him on the marriage agreements and, over the years, they have maintained a great friendship.’ 

In 2012, Del Borgo and Telma relocated to New York to start their married life – but Telma returned to Barcelona the same year before announcing their permanent separation in 2014. 

This week, Telma’s ex Jaime Del Burgo shared an undated selfie the Queen, 51, took in a bathroom mirror during one of her pregnancies as ‘evidence’ of their relationship on X, formerly known as Twitter.

 In the selfie, the royal can be seen wearing a black pashmina – which Jaime claims belonged to him – and he also typed out a message, supposedly sent to him by the  Spanish Queen. 

It read: ‘Love. I wear your pashmina. It’s like feeling you by my side. It takes care of me.

‘It protects me. I count the hours until we see each other again. Love you. Get out of here. Yours,’ 

After sharing the image, other X users questioned the validity of Jaime’s claims – given there is no evidence that Letizia sent him the photo or accompanying message. The businessman has since deleted his X account.

A spokesperson for the Spanish Royal Family told FEMAIL: ‘We have no comment to make about this.’ 

Telma’s partner is now Irish lawyer Gavin Bonnar and the couple welcomed their first child together in October 2021, when Telma was aged 47. Gavin shares two children with his first wife musician Sharon Corr. 

In her recent album The Fool & The Scorpion, Sharon wrote lyrics including ‘the queen’s twisted sister’ – which fans speculated were inspired by her children’s new step-mother. 

Telma and her family prefer to stay out of the limelight – but it’s thought she still has a close relationship with her sister, with the mother-of-two invited to several special family occasions, including the Princess of Asturias Awards in 2019.

At the lavish event, she watched her niece Princess Leonor, 18, who is heir to the Spanish throne, give a speech. 

This summer, when in Madrid to attend a talk on renewable energy starring Amal Clooney, she told the media her nieces were ‘the best’.

Letizia married high school teacher Alonso Guerrero Perez, nine years her senior, in 1998 following a ten-year romance  – with the pair meeting when the future Spanish queen was just 16.

The couple tied the knot in a civil ceremony in the town of Almendralejo, Badajoz, but divorced the following year after just one year of marriage.

Letizia met husband-to-be Felipe in 2002, while she was working for popular TV channel 24 Horas, with the couple announcing their engagement just a year later.

Letizia’s status as a divorcee, as well as her former relationship with the high school teacher, caused controversy in Spain ahead of the royal wedding, suddenly thrusting Alonso into the spotlight. 

However, her previous marriage came back to haunt her when her ex-husband published a novel that seemed to be inspired by his controversial romance with the Spanish royal.

Guerrero Perez, from Alcalá de Henares, Spain, wrote a fictional book called El Amor De Penny Robinson, or The Love of Penny Robinson.

The novel tells the story of a man – who has the same name as the author – suddenly thrust into the spotlight due to his ex-wife becoming queen.

In the book, the main character even describes how he took a nude snap of his first love, Laura, a character believed to be based on Letizia.

The protagonist falls in love with two women – Laura and Nené – who are both thought to be based on Letizia.

The book then tells the story of how the second woman, named Nené, becomes Queen – leading to the protagonist becoming a ‘media character’. 

The older sister of King Felipe VI, Infanta Cristina of Spain, now 58, found herself at the heart of one of the Spanish monarchies biggest scandals – after her husband, now ex, was jailed for financial crimes. 

Businessman and retired handball player Iñaki Urdangarin, 54, was sentenced to five years in prison in 2018 for embezzlement and money laundering in excess of £4.5 million through his non-profit organisation, the Noos Institute.

Urdangarin married Infanta Cristina in 1997 and the couple share four children together, all in their late teens or early twenties: Juan, Pablo, Miguel and Irene.

The couple shared a joint statement in January 2022 to Spain’s State News Agency saying they were to separate. 

The end of their relationship came after he was pictured holding hands with another woman, allegedly an unnamed co-worker at the Imaz & Asociados law firm, in a photo published by the Spanish magazine Lecturas. 

In a bid to distance themselves from these corruption claims, the Spanish royal family removed the section dedicated to Iñaki Urdangarin on their website. 

Infanta Cristina was also investigated for corruption, but was acquitted of any charges. However, her brother King Felipe VI stripped her of her title of Duchess of Palma in 2015.

Now living in exile in the United Arab Emirates, largely estranged from his wife and family, Juan Carlos I, 85, has been perhaps the Spanish royals biggest purveyor of scandal in recent decades.

Although now best known for his misdeeds, he was once one of the most glamorous men on the world stage. Juan Carlos, who has three children – two daughters and a son – with wife Queen Sofia enjoyed a close relationship with Queen Elizabeth and the British royal family; a friendship with King Charles continues. 

A onetime hero to Spaniards thanks to his rejection of the legacy of dictator Francisco Franco and the ushering in of a new democratic, liberal era after decades of authoritarianism, his people eventually grew tired of the rumours about his less than salubrious behaviour. 

Juan Carlos’ adulterous bedding of hundreds of women – with some claiming he has slept with 2,000 women – and accusations of financial impropriety are likely to be his lasting legacy. 

The Spanish public finally turned on their king in 2012 when he took an elephant-shooting trip with his former lover, the aristocrat Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn. 

Amid increasingly poor health, abdication and self-imposed exile came two years later, with the king letting his son, Felipe IV, take over. 

While the 2007 separation of Princess Elena, the eldest daughter of Spain’s King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia, was low-key in comparison to that of her younger sister, it still put the royal family back in the headlines. 

Elena, now 59, and her husband Jaime de Marichalar, who married in Seville Cathedral in 1995, separated after 12 years of marriage. 

The Spanish princess announced that she was leaving her husband and taking her two children with her. Elena’s eldest child Felipe Juan Froilan, now 25, was the first grandchild for Juan Carlos and Sofia. The couple also had a daughter Victoria Federica, now 23.

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Milei’s rise does not mean that Argentine society has turned ultra-right from one day to the next or that they embrace the fundamentalist ideals of a new libertarian fascism of the market. One which puts economic freedom above democracy and civilizing minimums of the Western world, typical of political liberalism.

The problem is that Milei’s discourse is seen as a way out, by using anti-caste and anti-elite rhetoric, which takes advantage of citizen discontent, a product of the economic crisis and state corruption. He proposes an idea of idiot capitalism, which completely leaves out of discussion and criticism the role of an economic caste, which is the one that has ultimately benefited the most from the current capitalist crisis.

With this, of course, it is not about exonerating the Argentine political class and particularly what is known as Kirchnerism from responsibility for a historic anti-Peronist vote and a very bad candidate such as Sergio Massa. However, the installation of Milei’s antisocial and state-phobic discourse should not be allowed to take hole, as it is totally unsustainable in any democracy.

Hence, Milei’s libertarian fascist discourse dwarfs what has been proposed by figures like Bolsonaro and Trump. He proposes a crude economic focus incapable of seeing basic power relations and thus proposing an almost religious morality with respect to the business sector, by sacralizing it at all times. It’s as if we should be constantly thanking them for the benefits they would give us.

Consequently, Milei explicitly states that businessmen are social benefactors, for the mere fact of providing goods and services as for giving us jobs. Exactly what has given them the same concentration of wealth, labor exploitation and socio-environmental disasters that their actions often generate. To him, the corrupt are always the politicians, while the businessmen are pure and righteous beings.

For this reason, the deep admiration that Milei feels for characters such as Axel Kaiser, Jose Antonio Kast and the so-called Chilean economic miracle, imposed during the Pinochet dictatorship and deepened with the return of democracy. A policy that privatized practically everything and indebted families to extreme levels to be able to pay for such basic things as education, health, housing and to survive during retirement, given the miserable pensions provided by the private AFP system.

But that does not matter to Milei, nor does it matter that in Chile the richest 1% concentrate 49.6% of the wealth, far surpassing countries like Russia, the United States, Brazil and Argentina, and that certain Chilean economic groups, given their power, have financed the political class for decades and have also colluded in the prices of food and medicines in a criminal manner.

Milei sees nothing wrong that such a concentration of economic groups in Chile such as Luksic, Matte and Angellini appropriate the country’s natural wealth, destroy ecosystems with impunity and consume massive amounts of water, since these mining, forestry and agro-export mega-companies provide employment.

On the contrary, Milei’s brand of capitalism reaches such an extent that, apart from admiring a socially and environmentally unsustainable Chilean model, he proposes a retro-utopia, which yearns for the return of Argentina’s supposedly glorious past of 100 years ago. Back then, Argentina was a country with the highest GDP, but without industry, with almost no labor rights and totally dependent on selling raw materials to the international market.

That said, Milei disguises herself as an outsider, an anti-system rebel, while taking advantage of the inflationary crisis in Argentina and the impoverishment of the people.  However, he is only proposing an unviable country, through extreme measures that go from eliminating several ministries, eliminating the Council of Scientific and Technological research, the Central Bank, cuts in Education and drastically reducing taxes. Within his economic fundamentalism, taxes are robbery and a criminal act of the State.

In short, if Javier Milei becomes president of Argentina, which is posible, we will see what he is capable of doing, considering the few deputies and senators that his La Libertad Avanza party will obtain. In order to govern he will be obliged to give in politically, having to leave his libertarian purity aside and see himself as one of the caste that he himself criticizes.

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Milei, who rode a wave of voter anger with the political mainstream, won by a wider-than-expected margin. He landed some 56% of the vote versus just over 44% for his rival, Peronist Economy Minister Sergio Massa, who conceded.

“The model of decadence has come to an end, there’s no going back,” Milei said in a defiant speech after the result, while also acknowledging the challenges that face him.

“We have monumental problems ahead: inflation, lack of work, and poverty,” he said. “The situation is critical and there is no place for tepid half-measures.”

In downtown Buenos Aires hundreds of Milei supporters honked horns and chanted his popular refrain against the political elite – “out with all of them” – as rock music played from speakers. Some people set off fireworks as excitement spread.

“We came to celebrate this historic triumph,” said Efrain Viveros, a 21-year-old student from the province of Salta. “I’m honestly ecstatic. Milei represents change, for the better. With Massa we’d have had no future, our future has returned.”

Milei is pledging economic shock therapy. His plans include shutting the central bank, ditching the peso, and slashing spending, potentially painful reforms that resonated with voters angry at the economic malaise.

“Milei is the new thing, he’s a bit of an unknown and it is a little scary, but it’s time to turn over a new page,” said 31-year-old restaurant worker Cristian as he voted on Sunday.

Milei’s challenges are enormous. He will have to deal with the empty coffers of the government and central bank, a creaking $44 billion debt program with the International Monetary Fund, inflation nearing 150% and a dizzying array of capital controls.

Some Argentines had characterized the vote as a choice of the “lesser evil”: fear of Milei’s painful economic medicine versus anger at Massa and his Peronist party for an economic crisis that has left Argentina deeply in debt and unable to tap global credit markets.

Milei has been particularly popular among the young, who have grown up seeing their country lurch from one crisis to another.

“Perhaps not everything Milei says I agree with or can identify with but he is our future,” said Irene Sosa, a 20-year-old student celebrating outside his election bunker. “Milei represents a future for young people like me, Massa was everything that is wrong with our country.”

Milei’s win shakes up Argentina’s political landscape and economic roadmap, and could impact trade in grains, lithium and hydrocarbons. Milei has criticized China and Brazil, saying he won’t deal with “communists,” and favors stronger U.S. ties.

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While sexual harassment allegations led to Cuomo’s ousting from office in August 2021, there was a lingering controversy over his ill-fated policy in March 2020 ordering nursing homes to accept COVID patients in order to prevent overwhelming New York’s hospital system. That led to the deaths of over 4,100 nursing home residents. 

During Friday’s “Overtime” segment on YouTube, Maher read a viewer question posed to Cuomo asking whether he would have done anything differently during COVID. 

So you allowed people who had been in the hospital – older people, from a nursing home, now they go to the hospital to go back into the nursing home without testing them,” Maher said. “ProPublica says you were the only state to do it without testing them when they went back into the nursing home. And that’s what caused the death in the nursing homes. Is that true?

“No, the short answer is no.” Cuomo responded. “First, this is Monday morning quarterbacking by which I could make the New York Jets champion, right, if we’re gonna do this. When COVID started, it was – all of the disinformation was amazing, right? It was coming from China, wet market, zootrophic virus, it was going to California and the state of Washington so we banned travel to China, from China. It turned out that China had already spread it to Europe. All the European flights were coming to New York, JFK. So it had been here for months and it was astronomical. When we first found out about it… they were projecting we would need 150,000 hospital beds to deal with the number of infected, we only had 50,000 in the entire state of New York.”

“You did it to free up beds,” Maher said. 

“We were afraid of losing hospital beds,” Cuomo said, “but people who were in hospitals who were considered medically stable, who were tested, were sent to nursing homes if the nursing home said they could treat that person in a way that protects the other people in the nursing home. And that was a way to make sure we had enough hospital beds.”

The HBO host then mentioned how the Cuomo administration did not accurately count the number of COVID deaths in nursing homes by saying those who were rushed to the hospital from a nursing home with COVID and died in the hospital counted as a non-nursing home death. 

Maher noted that Cuomo’s critics believed the miscounting was “deliberate.”

“Well, let me now get weedsy with you,” Cuomo responded. “Every day I did a briefing and every day we collected information from the hospitals and from nursing homes, and we print the two numbers on the screen every day. This is the number of people who died in the hospital. This is the number of people who died in a nursing home, which means you had to go back every day to 1000 hospitals, nursing homes to collect this data… They then raise the question who said ‘Well, how many died in a hospital who were originally in a nursing home before they went to the hospital?’ That’s a different question. And that actually took the state controller a year to figure out and go back and do the audit.”

“So, you wouldn’t do anything differently,” Maher interjected. 

“I would run that number now, which nobody asked me for until months later, but it would have been, you know, this is in the middle of COVID,” Cuomo answered. “And you’re asking all these people to do accounting, but if that’s a number that people would have wound up wanting, which they didn’t say for months, Bill, I would have put that number for upfront in the beginning.”

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few days after the third Democratic debate, a movie producer of some renown was in his car, at a quarter past 7 p.m., on the 405 freeway in Los Angeles. There was a lot of traffic, and he was late for a dinner party off the Sepulveda Pass. We started talking about the Democratic primary, and when I asked him whether Joe Biden had the stamina to win the nomination and, ultimately, the White House, he laughed uproariously. “Fuck no,” he said. “Only septuagenarians in the Palisades think that. Everyone else knows he’s the Titanic.” When I asked whether he’d go on the record, he laughed louder. “Of course not. I have the utmost respect for the former vice president.”

The producer’s sentiment is a tidy encapsulation of how many in the Democratic donor class are thinking about Biden these days, in Hollywood and beyond. The former vice president raised just $15.2 million last quarter, fully $6 million less than he raised in the previous quarter. The subtext is clear: Donors are fond of Biden, in a dutiful sort of way, but they’re increasingly worried that he might get clobbered in the general.

Fears of a Biden meltdown, coupled with a brutal GOP war of disinformation, have spawned a search, increasingly frantic, for an Alternate Biden—someone who can win a large majority of moderate Democrats and progressives and reclaim Obama–Trump voters in the Upper Midwest. “Joe Biden can do this tomorrow with his eyes closed, but there is real fear, real concern,” said Ken Solomon, president of the Tennis Channel and one of Barack Obama’s Southern California fundraising-committee cochairmen in 2012. Barry Porter, a managing general partner of Clarity Partners, a private-equity shop headquartered in Beverly Hills, said, “Who is the alternative, should Joe Biden fade? There is concern that, if he fades, who’s next? The Ukrainian thing is only throwing accelerant on that concern.”

There are no Alternate Biden front-runners. Instead, there’s a constellation of moderate- to moderate-ish maybe-presidents, all men, waiting for Biden to implode. They include nonentities like Montana Governor Steve Bullock, outsiders like tech entrepreneur Andrew Yang, and noncandidates like former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg. Perhaps the highest-polling Biden alternative is South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who is very much in the race and actually has a path to the nomination, albeit an unlikely one.

Then there’s Colorado Senator Michael Bennet, a perennial favorite among a certain generation of Democrats, who is now polling at 0% in Iowa. Bennet was scheduled, on September 26, to attend a fundraiser at Porter’s Brentwood home. Cohosts included Solomon; Jeff Shell, chairman of NBCUniversal Film and Entertainment; producer Matt Tolmach and his wife, director Paige Goldberg Tolmach; City National Bank chairman Russell Goldsmith; and entertainment lawyer and screenwriter Carol Fuchs.

At the last minute, Bennet, a Senate Intelligence Committee member, had to postpone his California trip so he could be at a briefing on the Ukraine scandal. That night, he caught a late flight to L.A., and the next morning, he met with three separate groups of supporters—at Porter’s office, the Brentwood home of writer and producer Alan Grossbard, and an office in Century City. Of the 75 who had been expected at Porter’s the night before, 40 came to hear Bennet talk about his very uphill battle to win the nomination—not so shabby given that all these people are scheduled to death.

“I think Michael Bennet may be Abraham Lincoln,” Solomon said. “He’s not so flashy, but he’s actually the right guy. He may be the one, because we are so fractionalized.” Porter added that Bennet has “a groundswell of support among people who are either influential in the party or the business world, or are simply sitting on the sidelines for now.”

The strategy of all the candidates who have yet to get much traction appears to be the same: place in the top three in the February 3 Iowa caucus and generate a ton of buzz, money, and momentum.

A prominent Democratic bundler scoffed at the Alternate Biden camp. “We found an alternative to Biden,” the bundler said. “Her name is Elizabeth Warren, and it’s the elites in the party, in L.A. and New York, who don’t like her, people who think the wealth tax is going to be unpopular. Guess what? It’s not.”

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The US diplomat has been facing a chorus of Arab calls to support an immediate ceasefire. Foreign ministers from Qatar, Saudi, Egypt, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates met Blinken in Amman on Saturday and also urged him to persuade Israel to agree to a ceasefire. Blinken also visited Iraq on Sunday and held talks with the prime minister, Mohammed al-Sudani.

The latest manoeuvres come amid continued concerns for civilians inside Gaza, as the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said they had divided the besieged coastal strip into two and the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported “unprecedented bombardment” by Israel.

Jordan’s military air-dropped urgent medical aid to a Jordanian field hospital in Gaza early on Monday, according to a social post from Jordan’s king and reports in state media. “This is our duty to aid our brothers and sisters injured in the war on Gaza. We will always be there for our Palestinian brethren,” King Abdullah said.

Antony Blinken meets with the Turkish foreign minister, Hakan Fidan, on Monday 6 November. Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/AP

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Their first round began in 2002, after they starred in that year’s romcom, Gigli. Affleck eventually proposed to J.Lo, but they broke things off in 2004. Since then, they both went on to marry other people, have kids, and get divorced. They’ve also both dated other people since those divorces. A month after she ended things with Alex Rodriguez, Lopez was linked romantically to Affleck once more, in May 2021. They were married in the summer 2022 and are still enjoying their first year of being newlyweds.

Here’s everything we know about Lopez and Affleck’s relationship, from the first time they met to their reunion, 19 years later.

Early 2002

In early 2002, Lopez and Affleck met on the set of Gigli. Lopez was married to her second husband Cris Judd at the time of their connection.

July 2002

By mid-year, Judd and Lopez were separated, and she filed for divorce two days after she was spotted kissing Affleck at her surprise 32nd birthday party. This was their first moment of being romantically linked in public.

November 2002

Affleck makes a memorable appearance in J.Lo’s “Jenny from the Block” music video, which recreates some of the issues facing the superstar such as constantly dodging paparazzi when you’re in a highly-publicized relationship. In one scene, Affleck caresses J.Lo’s butt, an image became a frequent topic of conversation.

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In 2008, Affleck said, per Fox News, “If I have a regret, it was doing the [‘Jenny from the Block’] music video. It not only makes me look like a petulant fool, but it surely qualifies as ungentlemanly.”

That same month, Affleck proposed to Lopez as she met his family in Boston. Lopez dropped the news during an interview with Diane Sawyer, describing the moment he asked for her hand.

“It’s just a blanket, a quilt of rose petals, all over the whole entire house,” Lopez said. “So many candles, and vases, bouquets. And my song ‘Glad’ was playing … I walk in, and I was just overwhelmed. I wasn’t expecting it, and I was just like ‘Oh my God.’”

She continued, “I had cried a lot over sadness over the years. And for the first time in my life, I cried incredible purging tears of happiness. It was the most cleansing feeling and the most wonderful feeling I had ever had.”

The famous engagement ring was made from 6.1-carat pink diamond (her favorite color at the time) by Harry Winston that reportedly cost $2.5 million.

“I was just like, ‘Oh God. It can’t be pink on top of it.’ That was just too much for me to handle,” Lopez said.

July 2003

The couple strutted the red carpet together for the premiere of Gigli, where Lopez takes the engagement ring for a walk.

September 2003

On the day before their wedding, Lopez and Affleck shocked fans by announcing their decision to postpone the ceremony. They released a joint statement reading:

Due to the excessive media attention surrounding our wedding, we have decided to postpone the date. When we found ourselves seriously contemplating hiring three separate “decoy brides” at three different locations, we realized that something was awry. We began to feel that the spirit of what should have been the happiest day of our lives could be compromised. We felt what should have been a joyful and sacred day could be spoiled for us, our families, and our friends.

January 2004

Around four months later, Chicago Tribune reported that the pair were officially over. Lopez’s rep said, “I am confirming the reports that Jennifer Lopez has ended her engagement to Ben Affleck. At this difficult time, we ask that you respect her privacy.”

June 2004

And about six months after that, on June 5, Lopez married Latin music star Marc Anthony. The new couple had two children, twins Emme and Max, who were born in 2008. Lopez and Anthony separated in 2011 and then divorced in 2014.

October 2004

A few months after Lopez moved on into a new marriage, Affleck was spotted with Jennifer Garner at the Cardinals vs. Red Sox World Series game. They first met on the set of Pearl Harbor, but supposedly became closer friends while filming 2003’s Daredevil. This sighting was the debut of their romantic relationship.

June 2005

Affleck and Garner are married a year after Lopez and Anthony. Their break up came in 2018. During their marraige, Garner and Affleck had three children together: Violet, Seraphina, and Sam.

April 2021

In an extensive cover story for InStyle, Jennifer Lopez’s whole history was covered, including her famous ex Affleck. The pair seemed to be already on good terms, because Affleck was tapped for a comment. He had glowing words to share about Lopez.

“I thought I had a good work ethic, but I was completely humbled and blown away by what she was committed to doing day in and day out, the seriousness in which she took her work, the quiet and dedicated way she went about accomplishing her goals, and then how she would go back and redouble her efforts,” Affleck gushed. “She remains, to this day, the hardest-working person I’ve come across in this business. She has great talent, but she has also worked very hard for her success, and I’m so happy for her that she seems, at long last, to be getting the credit she deserves.”

Did he say this after they reconnected, or was she drawn back to him by flattery? Unclear, but Page Six reported Affleck was seen heading to J.Lo’s home in California just a few weeks after her break up with Rodriguez in her white Escalade SUV, where he spent “a few hours,” according to a source. An inside source denied dating rumors at the time, stating, “They are friends.”

May 2021

Those friends jetted to Montana on a romantic getaway in early May. A source told Us Weekly, “Ben and Jen spent several days together in Montana. It was just the two of them on vacation together. Big Sky is a special place to Ben.”

The source added, “They looked very happy together.”

TMZ reported that the former exes had been in contact for several months before meeting up in person, exchanging emails to get to know one another again. Their correspondence began in early February, and multiple sources “with direct knowledge” claimed Affleck’s emails were not “just friendly…but more loving and longing for Jen.”

By the end of the month, E! News was reporting on Lopez and Affleck’s bi-coastal relationship, with Affleck based in Los Angeles and Lopez in Miami.

“They have no problem meeting up wherever,” a source told them. The insider said that “things are going very well” and that “Ben is happy to be a part of her life in Miami, where they spent a lot of time at home being low-key and relaxing together. They have had a great few days that feels effortless and easy.”

On May 26, Us Weekly reported that Lopez and Affleck were officially back together. A source said, “Jen and Ben are both very happy with each [other] and are excited to see where the relationship goes. They are full-on dating and very happy together.”

June 2021

By mid-summer, E! News also reported that Bennifer is really back.

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A insider told the outlet that Lopez was “crazy about Ben.”

“He spoils her with love and is very witty and charming” they continued. “He’s a man’s man, and she finds him so attractive and strong. She’s in it for the long term and sees her future with him.”

Rumors began that Lopez could be moving to Los Angeles after she was seen looking for schools for her kids in the neighborhood. On June 7, Entertainment Tonight reported that the pair were telling their friends that they are a couple, not just dating.

“When they first reconnected, they had to see if the spark was still there because it had been a while. It was, so now they are both fully in it,” a source told the outlet.

And then it happened: Lopez moved from Miami to LA, with a source telling E! that the star would “be between L.A. and the Hamptons this summer, but L.A. will be her base. She is looking at schools for her kids in the fall.”

On June 11, a source told People that Lopez’s mom, Guadalupe Rodríguez, filmed a cameo on a new Affleck project.

“In the past, Jennifer’s mom and Ben were very close. Guadalupe loved Ben. She was sad when they couldn’t work things out years ago,” the source told People. “She is thrilled that they are back together now.”

The source added, “Jennifer is very close with her mom. It’s very important to her that the person she is with gets along with her mom. Jennifer loves that Ben and Guadalupe hung out in Las Vegas. They both love gambling and had fun together at the Wynn hotel.”

July 2021

On Friday, July 2, the couple was seen at Universal Studios Hollywood with Max and Emme, and Samuel, showing that their kids were getting to know one another, too. They then headed to the Hamptons, where they were seen holding hands.

That same month, Apple Music 1 released an interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1, in which Lopez shared how great she’d been doing because something was “happening again” though she did not mention Affleck.

“I’m super happy,” she said. “I know people are always wondering. How are you? What’s going on? Are you okay? This is it. I’ve never been better. And I want my people who care about me, because I care about them so much, to know that I’ve really gotten to a place in my life where I’m great on my own. And I think once you get to that place, then amazing things happen to you that you never imagine in your life happening again. And so that is where I’m at. And I love all the love that’s coming my way right now and all of the good wishes. And I just want everybody to know that it’s the best time. It’s the best time of my life.”

She got more specific in a mid-July interview with the Ebro on Apple Music 1, first reflecting on her breakup with Rodriguez.

“Once you get to the point where you’re like, ‘This is not right for me, or this doesn’t feel good, or I need to make an adjustment here,” she said. “‘This is not really about anybody else but me.’ Once you do that, stuff starts falling into place.”

On July 22, Leah Remini posted a video of photos from her birthday party, including a photo of Affleck and Lopez together, making it their Instagram debut.

But Affleck didn’t make it onto Lopez’s grid until July 24, in a photo of them kissing during her 52nd birthday. They celebrated together on a yacht in St. Tropez and seemingly re-created the scene from Lopez’s “Jenny from the Block” with paparazzi photographing Affleck rubbing his girlfriend’s butt.

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A source told People that this was “not a summer fling.”

The source added, “[Lopez and Affleck] are planning a future together. They have serious talks about how they can make it all work. Between their relationship, their kids, and jobs, they know it will be tricky to balance it all. Jennifer is the happiest. She keeps gushing about how amazing Ben is.”

August 2021

The hot and heavy couple are photographed outside of Westfield mall in Los Angeles in matching black ensembles holding hands. Lopez wore a sleeveless black top and belted houndstooth skirt, with her beau in black button-down and jeans.

Just weeks earlier, Us Weekly reported that Lopez and Affleck are “seriously talking about getting married.”

A source told the outlet, “They are both madly in love and don’t want to let one another go this time.”

September 2021

Affleck and Lopez made their red carpet debut at the 2021 Venice Film Festival’s premiere of The Last Duel, with the actor wearing a black suit, while Lopez stunned in a white plunge dress by Georges Hobeika and Cartier jewelry, the official jewelry sponsor of the festival.

Affleck also joined Lopez that month at the Met Gala, but she walked the red carpet alone in her western-themed Ralph Lauren look. The couple were later photographed kissing inside the venue with their masks on.

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A source told Us Weekly, “Going red carpet official was a wonderful experience, and they were just so proud to shout their love from the rooftops like they did. The messages were pouring in from all over Hollywood and beyond, saying how cute they looked, and that meant the world to both Ben and J.Lo.”

October 2021

Lopez had to be separated from her man for a few months while she worked on set in Vancouver for Netflix thriller The Mother while Affleck shot Robert Rodriguez’s Hypnotic in Austin, Texas. A source told E! that they were making regular visits to get through.

“They are both filming during the week on location, but they have met up whenever possible,” the source explained. “Ben has been in L.A., and J.Lo flew in from Vancouver to spend time with him. They hung out at his house and then left for the airport together on Sunday night. J.Lo has had her kids visit her in Vancouver, but she is also coming back and forth to L.A.”

“They are working out their schedules so that they can be sure to see each other every few days,” the source added. “Things are good between them, and they are staying connected. They are busy with their projects but also making time to be together.”

That month, Affleck was asked by Extra how he was feeling, and though he didn’t say Lopez had anything to do with it, he claimed to be doing very well indeed.

“I’m very happy,” he said. “It is a very happy time in my life. Life is good. I love this movie [The Tender Bar], and The Last Duel, October 15, which I am really proud of.”

November 2021

Lopez brought her twins Max and Emme to Los Angeles to join Affleck for the Thanksgiving holiday, their first since reconnecting as a couple.

December 2021

For the first time, Affleck describes rekindling his romance with Lopez in an interview with WSJ Magazine.

“I can say that it’s definitely beautiful to me,” he said of how they got back together. “And, you know, one of the things I really value across all facets of my life now is that it was handled in a way that reflected that. My life now reflects not just the person that I want to be, but the person that I really feel like I am—which is not perfect, but somebody who tries very hard and cares very much about being honest and authentic and accountable. It’s hard to say who benefits more, without going into gossipy detail. I could just say that I feel great about being very healthy. And it is a good story. It’s a great story. And, you know, maybe one day I’ll tell it. I’ll write it all out…And then I’ll light it on fire.”

They were seen shortly after in Los Angeles at a Boston Celtics versus the Los Angeles Lakers NBA game sitting courtside, with their arms wrapped around each other.

February 2022

Lopez told Rolling Stone why she doesn’t think they’re breaking up anytime soon.

“I don’t think we would have got back together if we thought that was where it was headed,” she said. “We feel like what we found again is so much more important, and how we protect that and how we live our lives—what to share, what not to share—is the balance that we have now, the benefit of experience and the wisdom that we gained over the years.”

March 2022:

Lopez was finishing up her filming for The Mother in Gran Canaria, Spain, and Affleck flew out to see her.

April 2022

For a second time, Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck are engaged! A rep for J.Lo confirmed the news to People. She also shared her newly engaged status on her On the JLo newsletter for fans, teasing it with a video on Twitter.

“Major announcement!!!! OnTheJLo.com,” she wrote, including a diamond ring emoji in her bio.

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TMZ reported that same week that the engagement had happened, sharing photos of a shining diamond on her left finger. The ring ended up being very similar to the one he originally proposed with, except instead of a pink diamond, it was made with an 8.5 carat natural green diamond. In an earlier newsletter, Lopez wrote about the significance of the color green.

“I always say the color green is my lucky color. Maybe you can remember a certain green dress,” she said, referencing the green Versace dress she wore to the 2000 Grammys. “I’ve realized there are many moments in my life where amazing things happened when I was wearing green.”

May 2022

Lopez and Affleck are seen in Los Angeles surveying a $68 million dollar mansion in Bel Air with Lopez’s sister, Linda, as well as a real estate agent.

They were reportedly looking for a space that can fit their blended family and had landed on a $55 million estate that then fell out of escrow. An insider told Entertainment Tonight that the pair wanted to be able to find a house so they’re able to “spend every night together when they can.”

The insider added, “It’s the next step in their relationship and since they are both in it for the long run, they can’t wait to have a home together.”

The mansion had 12 bedrooms and 24 bathrooms.

June 2022

The couple were photographed by paparazzi sharing a kiss on Affleck’s Los Angeles film set. Lopez had recently praised Affleck’s parenting in honor of Father’s Day and how he’s been with her own twins, Max and Emme.

Lopez wrote in her On the J.Lo newsletter, “My other dedication this year is to my fiancé [Ben Affleck]… I have had a front row seat to watching how you father for over a year now and I have never seen [a] more consistent, loving and selfless father. And [it’s] not just to your own kids but also without obligation to mine as well. You show up and put them first always. You are affectionate and engaged in every moment they are with you and it’s honestly one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen. Thank you for all you do for all of us. We appreciate and love you beyond measure.”

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Lopez shared a video of her and Affleck, too.

“Happy Father’s Day to the most caring, loving, affectionate, consistent and selfless Daddy ever,” she wrote. “#HappyFathersDay my love.”

July 2022

On Saturday, July 16, Affleck and Lopez obtained a marriage license in Clark County, NV, according to TMZ, and were officially married. A source close to the couple confirmed the union.

Afterwards, they headed to Paris with some of their children for a honeymoon slash work trip for J.Lo. After lunch, they enjoyed a two-hour private tour of the Seine, followed by a visit to the Picasso Museum. That night, they rallied for more activities and left their hotel in more formal dinner wear, holding hands and making each other laugh.

A source told People that the couple was “like two teens … very loving, very attentive.”

They added, “There weren’t a lot of people that time of the morning and they weren’t distracted. It was just them.”

Another eyewitness claimed the couple were kissing on a park bench for two hours.

“Whether it was holding hands, a caress, touching one another on the back … they never let go of one another,” they said. “They were like two bees stuck in honey.”

August 2022

In August, to follow up on their whirlwind Vegas ceremony, Lopez and Affleck had a blowout party weekend and wedding at Affleck’s Georgia estate, according to People, Entertainment Tonight, and E!, who interviewed people who got to attend or are allegedly close to the couple.

People‘s source said that the even was “perfect. It was a dream for her,” adding, “She loved having all the kids there. She loved the location. It all felt very special.”

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Lopez “feels extremely happy being married to Ben. She keeps saying ‘my husband’ and it’s very cute,” the source added. E! reported the ceremony was 20 minutes long and officiated by life coach Jay Shetty.

“At the end of the ceremony, they posed for family photos on the dock by the water,” the source said. “It was very romantic and classic. They had an old-fashioned car parked in front of the estate ready to take them away. J.Lo was ecstatic and there were a lot of tears of joy and laughter. Her smile said it all.”

Entertainment Tonight wrote that guests were shuttled from their Savannah, Georgia hotel to Affleck’s Riceboro estate in cars provided by Coastal Limo.

“Guests were gathering at The Perry Lane Hotel [in Savannah] to head to Jennifer and Ben’s wedding,” the source said. “Everyone is dressed in white with most women in white dresses and gowns, and most men in white suits, a majority in linen material, but the dress code features a wide variety. Some men are in white shorts and sneakers and there is a female guest in a white fringe leather jacket and sparkly cowboy hat.”

Lopez and Affleck were “so gracious all weekend,” a source told Entertainment Tonight. “They have been wonderful towards all the staff helping with the event, from the limo shuttle service company and beyond. You can tell how in love they are and how comfortable they are with each other. They can’t wait to continue to celebrate all weekend long with the people they love the most.”

September 2022

Lopez shared select photos from their wedding in her On the JLo newsletter, adding details on the ceremony, reception, and day-after brunch.

She wrote that Affleck said in his wedding speech, “This is heaven. Right Here. We’re in it now.”

“The truth is, I never had one doubt,” she wrote. “All week I felt the calm and easy certainty that we were in God’s hands…” and though it was raining, the clouds parted right before the ceremony, “and, at long-last, I started my walk down the stairs that would become the aisle that would lead me toward the rest of my life. Ahhhhh…it was actually happening…”

“Ben and I talked about Marc Cohn’s ‘True Companion’ as the perfect wedding love song in this very house more than twenty years ago,” she continued. “Though Ben didn’t know, I asked Marc to surprise him by singing it at our wedding and he was lovely and generous to come. As I walked down the aisle, the first song he played wasn’t ‘True Companion’ however. It was his ‘The Things We’ve Handed Down’—a song about the wonderful mystery of children—something we could only guess at back then, but it was the perfect choice as our five children preceded me on the walk. The twenty years between those dreams of youth and the adult world of love and family we embraced that day, brought more to this marriage than either of us ever could have imagined. We weren’t only marrying one another; we were marrying these children into a new family. They were the only people we asked to stand up for us in our wedding party. To our great honor and joy, each one did.”

November 2022

The couple shared their first Thanksgiving Day as a married couple, heading out to her Hamptons home. Lopez posted an Instagram Reel of the holiday, showing her sisters Leslie and Lynda, her twins, Max and Emme, and, of course, her husband. Over the collage of pics, her song “The One (Version 2)” played, and in one image Affleck can be seen discussing something with 14-year-old Max.

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“This Is … Thanksgiving Holiday #ThisIsMeNow #PhotoDump #Family,” Lopez wrote in the caption.

Later that month, Lopez and Affleck supported friend Hugh Jackman in his leading role in a new production of The Music Man on Broadway. They were photographed holding hands as they left the theater.

December 2022

Lopez spoke warmly of Jennifer Garner in her December 2022 Vogue interview, complimenting her parenting style and saying Garner is “an amazing co-parent, and they [Affleck and Garner] work really well together.”

“The transition is a process that needs to be handled with so much care,” Lopez said of blending their families. “They [the kids] have so many feelings. They’re teens. But it’s going really well so far. What I hope to cultivate with our family is that his kids have a new ally in me and my kids have a new ally in him, someone who really loves and cares about them but can have a different perspective and help me see things that I can’t see with my kids because I’m so emotionally tied up.”

The couple reportedly threw a holiday party at their Hollywood home, with a celebrity guest list that included Kim Kardashian, Doja Cat, Eric André, Vanessa Hudgens, and Jane Fonda.

“Jen and Ben had so much fun at their holiday party,” the source told ET. “They planned it together and everything came together perfectly with special touches and details. Everyone had a blast… Jen’s favorite holiday is Christmas, so she always goes all out, but this is a really exciting time for them as a couple since it’s their first Christmas as husband and wife.”

After the holiday, J.Lo shared intimate details of their first Christmas married On The J.Lo newsletter with all of her fans.

“I’ve been hunkering down at home (and loving it) since I wrapped my last movie, just getting ready for the holidays!” Lopez wrote. She added that she themed her song around hummingbirds to honor the track on her new album This Is Me…Now.

“To me, hummingbirds are messengers of love,” she explained. “They’re also the fastest bird but they always have time to stop, eat something sweet and smell the roses. I identify with them, but more than anything, whenever I see one, I feel like it’s a sign from God that everything is going to be OK.”

She continued, “So, I decided this year that the hummingbird would be a perfect theme. We have blended families, doubled the people, doubled the fun, doubled the love, doubled the presents and tripled the chaos!!”

January 2023

On The Today Show, Lopez announced, “We [Ben and I] moved in together. The kids moved in together. It’s been, like, a really kind of emotional transition, but at the same time all your dreams coming true and it’s just been a phenomenal year, like best year, I think, since my kids were born.”

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During a press conference, she also briefly mentioned wedding planning, saying, “Planning a wedding is a lot. Very stressful.”

That’s what prompted their elopement in Vegas, as reported by Insider.

“I think that’s why we ran off to Vegas and got married there first,” she said. “Took all the pressure off of the big family wedding that we were having.”

And Affleck did help her arrange the Georgia wedding.

“He has an amazing eye,” she said. “He has incredible taste, but everything we do, we try and do it together.”

The couple were also seen that month with Garner, photographed together at an event to support 14-year-old Seraphina. Daily Mail shared pics of the three arriving at a performance hall in Santa Monica, along with Lopez’s children Emme and Max and Affleck’s kids Violet and Samuel.

February 2023

Affleck was Lopez’s date at the 2023 Grammys, and became the meme of the night after the camera caught him looking pretty miserable. A seat filler told TikTok that the couple realized Affleck was trending mid-ceremony.

The TikToker @almostannna explained, “J.Lo showed Ben Affleck the phone and was like, ‘Oh my god, honey, look at this meme circulating about you,’ and he was like, ‘Oh god, this again.’ Like, he knew during the performance that he was a meme. Like he knew, and he also chose just not to change his expression. I love how unbothered that is. So, I know that she was like on her phone and saw it and was like, ‘Honey this is so funny, look at this,’ and he was like, ‘Jesus Christ.’”

A source confirmed to Entertainment Tonight that they did notice it.

“Jen and Ben are both aware of the memes of Ben circulating,” the source said. “She had shown him a few photos that night and he just brushed it off. He is not fazed by what the internet has to say about him.”

The source said that as for the memes, “they are not paying too much attention to them,” and Lopez “actually thinks some of the memes are funny.”

Another source told Entertainment Tonight that Affleck was feeling off that night.

“Jen [Lopez, Affleck’s wife] and Ben had a fun date night out at the Grammys, but they have both been very busy working on several projects, and Ben was feeling tired,” the source explained. “He wanted to go and support Jen, but he wasn’t his usual self.”

The source added, “Jen had a great time and wanted Ben to be excited to be there, but she understood where he was coming from. Jen knows Ben is a great husband and they still made sure to have a good night together….[She] knows how supportive Ben is towards her and her work, but also gets that Ben is more of a homebody, and it isn’t his thing to be out at events all the time.”

Lopez shared her own video of herself and Affleck from the event, captioning it, “Always the best time with my love, my husband.”

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April 2023

Ahead of the release of Lopez’s album This Is Me…Now, Affleck offered glowing praise of his wife as a musician on SmartLess podcast’s April 3 episode. He said, via Billboard, “Here’s this incredible actress and this incredible performer. And then we’re sitting in the car, you know, and I’m humming along, like I will, you know, to the radio. And then a professional singer goes ahead and sings along and you kind of feel like, ‘Well that’s embarrassing.’”

“I do love her music, it’s brilliant and I know all of it,” he added.

With the tracks explicitly written to him, “Dear Ben” (from 2002’s This Is Me…Then) and “Dear Ben Pt. II” (from This Is Me…Now), Affleck said, “The songs that have been written about me have been written by the greatest performer in the history of the world, Jennifer Lopez. I don’t know if they are exactly about me, as maybe inspired by me because there are some negative things in there. She’s amazing.”

September 2023

In September, Affleck was seen being affectionate with ex-wife Jennifer Garner a few times, driving in Santa Monica with her and sharing a hug in the car as Garner bid goodbye to Affleck and their daughter Seraphina, who was seated by her dad in front. The casual friendliness spurred publication Closer Weekly to allege Lopez was “jealous” of the interactions.

A source told the DailyMail that nothing could be further from the truth and Lopez supports their “happy co-parenting” relationship. The source even suggested that Affleck’s new marriage is the glue holding his and Garner’s peace together.

“One of the things that made [Garner] and [Affleck] get to a better place was—and is—JLO,” they shared. “Ben is healthy. The drama of the past and the emotions of divorce are long gone and they are all making it work.”

Lopez and Garner are “friendly” and their kids “love each other.”

“It is really a very happy co-parenting situation,” the inside continued. “Everything is really good right now and should be the same in the near and distant future.”

As for their marriage, one year after their wedding ceremony, Lopez and Affleck are doing great.

“Their relationship is still on fire,” claimed the source. “They are really happy with each other, and there’s no drama in their relationship right now at all.”

The couple is hoping to get back to work post-WGA and SAG-AFTRA strike, but they’ve been enjoying their time together during the pause.

“They want to get back to work and are looking forward to the strikes being over but they are also very much enjoying the more time they are spending with each other,” the source said. “[Affleck] is writing, JLO is writing music, so they still have outlets to create while they enjoy each other’s time together.”

October 2023

Lopez spoke to ELLE.com about her relationship with Affleck when discussing her Intimissimi collection. When asked if he influences her lingerie style at all for her nights out with him, she said, “Honestly, there’s no difference really from how I dress for a date night or special occasion with my husband versus how I dress for myself. He loves me for who I am, and so the more authentic I can be to myself I’ve noticed the more I feel his love. I dress for my own confidence and for what makes me feel good and that radiates when I love how I feel and what I put on my body. It’s that energy that makes people gravitate towards you, not the outfit specifically.”

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