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Settling in! Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez bought a brand new house in Beverly Hills for $60.85 million, Us Weekly can verify.
The Oscar winner, 50, and the “Get Proper” songstress, 53, closed on the home on Thursday, Could 31, after practically two years of wanting. In response to TMZ, the couple paid money for the property, which was initially listed for hire at $300,000 monthly.
The 38,000-square-foot mansion boasts 12 bedrooms and 24 loos and is situated on a five-acre lot. The house’s different facilities embody an indoor sports activities complicated that has basketball and pickleball courts in addition to a gymnasium, boxing ring, lounge and bar. There’s additionally a pool, 12-car storage, two-bedroom guardhouse and a caretaker home.
Lopez and Affleck have been on the lookout for their dream house for practically two years after rekindling their romance within the spring of 2021. In Could 2022, an insider solely instructed Us that the pair had “A-list necessities” for his or her residence, together with that the home be “a minimum of” 20,000 sq. ft. “J. Lo likes huge homes and desires sufficient area for visiting household,” the supply added on the time. “It additionally must be gated and personal.”
The brand new house satisfies these necessities after which some, with a 5,000-square-foot visitor penthouse and room for parking for 80 vehicles.
The Hustlers actress and her husband’s new buy comes weeks earlier than their first marriage ceremony anniversary. Lopez and the Argo director tied the knot in Las Vegas in July 2022 after getting engaged three months prior. One month later, the couple had a second marriage ceremony ceremony at Affleck’s house in Georgia that was attended by their buddies, household and kids.
Lopez shares twins Max and Emme, 15, with ex-husband Marc Anthony, whom she divorced in 2014. Affleck, for his half, shares daughters Violet, 17, and Seraphina, 14, and son Samuel, 11, with ex-wife Jennifer Garner. The Justice League actor and the Alias alum, 51, known as it quits in 2015 after 10 years of marriage.
Affleck and Lopez initially sparked a romance in 2002 after assembly on the set of the movie Gigli, getting engaged in November of that yr. The twosome supposed to wed in September 2003 however known as off the ceremony due to “extreme media consideration.” In January 2004, they known as it quits.
Final yr, the “Ready for Tonight” songstress known as her break up from Affleck the “greatest heartbreak” of her life. “I actually felt like I used to be going to die. It despatched me on a spiral for the subsequent 18 years the place I simply couldn’t get it proper,” Lopez mentioned throughout a November 2022 interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, including that the breakup “motivated” the pair to turn into who they had been meant to be. “It fueled us in a bizarre method that we felt we needed to show ourselves once more.”
