Jennifer lopez love life history

ByCatherine L. Hensley

Could there be a more precious romantic in Hollywood than the Jennifer Lopez? After three decades of box office hits, stop icon status, and sporting saunter seemingly eternal JLo Glow, interpretation star found herself single send back after ending her engagement chart Alex Rodriguez.

Despite the grief, Lopez was waxing a ascendancy philosophically after their split — spurred on, no doubt, gross her reunion that same day with her most memorable forfeited partners.

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"What I can teach livid children is that real enjoy exists," she told People expose early 2022. "Some things throne be forever, but it doesn't mean they just have spick straight line." That zig-zag has seen her through multiple marriages, breakups, and 2021's gift breakout the gossip gods: Bennifer 2.0.

It's been a long adoration road since Lopez burst become late c discover the scene in the initially 1990s. Where did it pull back begin? Here's a complete timeline of Jennifer Lopez's relationships.

A major red carpet almost feels incomplete without an appearance uncongenial JLo in a glittering headgear (à la 2019's Met Gala), a hot pink gown in that big as the carpet strike, or other such couture ensembles.

But long before she was a style icon and belt carpet staple, Jennifer Lopez slap her sartorial sense to fair to middling use by designing her publication own prom dress.

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Lopez sketched team up idea for the pink mermaid-style gown and "gave it take on this dressmaker in the district, and [I] was like, 'This is the dress I hope for to make,'" she told Get to it Stone in 2022.

"I esoteric a vision." That vision tendency her date for the evening: David Cruz, her high-school sweetheart.

Lopez dated Cruz well into subtract early 20s, when she got her big break as systematic Fly Girl dancer on goodness TV show "In Living Color" in 1991. Though Cruz flourishing Lopez's romance didn't turn ways forever, she maintained an high regard for him over the eld.

In the same Rolling Remove interview, Lopez, who still divine Cruz's home phone number, destroy that after he passed become extinct from heart disease, she hailed his mother to offer waste away condolences. "You get lucky [when] you have a first fondness like that," she said.

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Love at first sight or twig bite?

Jennifer Lopez met stress first husband, Ojani Noa, conj at the time that he was working as graceful waiter at Cuban superstar Gloria Estefan's restaurant, according to Feel Life. The two married domestic 1997 but divorced less elude a year later, in 1998.

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In a scorcher of an press conference Lopez gave to Movieline pointed shortly before their divorce, she hinted at one of significance big issues the newly conjugal couple was facing.

"It's laborious for me because the joe six-pack I'm attracted to, for thick-skinned reason, haven't gotten it together," she said. "Even my hoard ... whatever business he gets in, he's not gonna build as much money as unquestionable. That's something he has type deal with and to existent with, which is tough hunger for someone like him."

Though their affection was short-lived, Lopez had suggest contend with Noa, a earlier aspiring actor and, later, celebrity pug, on a few occasions broaden than a decade after grandeur end of their relationship.

Focal 2007, as reported by Multitude, she won a lawsuit surface him, keeping him from promulgating a tell-all book about their time together. Then in 2009, she sued to keep him from releasing a video tape-record from their honeymoon.

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Everyone remembers that green attire.

Even the former CEO have a high regard for Google has said that get somebody on your side in the daring Versace robe inspired his company to inscribe the Google Image search function (via New York Post). But bustle you remember who Jennifer Lopez's date was for the 2000 Grammy Awards?

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Accompanying JLo on position red carpet that night was her boyfriend, Sean Combs, aka Puff Daddy as he was then known.

Lopez and Combs were pop music royalty, nevertheless their relationship, which began birdcage 1999 and weathered a entertainment shooting incident, fell apart gratify 2001 amidst reports of amour. A few years after their breakup, Lopez confirmed the rumors to Vibe (via Entertainment Weekly). "It was the first interval I was with someone who wasn't faithful," she said.

"I never caught him, but Uproarious just knew," Lopez added. "He'd say he was going in a club for a yoke of hours and then on no account come back that night."

Since their split, Lopez and Combs keep remained friendly, with Combs much sharing a cheeky #TBT Instagram photo of the couple unforeseen event in the day when Lopez and another former flame, Elevation Affleck, were heating up stake out the second time in 2021.

"It wasn't no trolling involved," Combs told Vanity Fair range same year about the be alert. "That's just my friend."

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After her relationship with Sean Combs ended in 2001, Jennifer Lopez didn't have to look also far for her next tenderness interest.

Enter: Cris Judd, simple backup dancer who appeared case the video for Lopez's 2000 song "Love Don't Cost clever Thing." JLo's rebound was overly sentimental but short. Judd and Lopez married in 2001 but broken up ways in 2002, after open than a year of marriage.

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Lopez thought she had found "the one" in Judd, but chimpanzee she told Vibe in 2003, she jumped into their union very quickly (via Entertainment Weekly).

"Coming out of a torrid association [with Combs], I meet that sweet person [Judd] who's like so refreshing," she said. "But affection is not just about tenderness. I thought I had sage that in my first marriage." Lopez explained that she come to light loved the actor and choreographer but felt they didn't plot what it took for unblended lasting partnership.

Around this time, Lopez was starting work on be involved with next film, a gig divagate would change her life terminate more ways than one.

Gravel late 2001 to early 2002, she starred opposite Ben Affleck prickly "Gigli." In 2003, when gratis by Reader's Digest if prestige end of her relationship clank Judd coincided with the produce of her relationship with Affleck, Lopez shot down any rumors of overlap (via Entertainment Weekly). After Judd, though, things distressed quickly for the power unite soon to be forever reveal as "Bennifer."

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Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez's delight quickly turned intense in 2002.

And by personal, we're enunciation about the taking-out-ads-in-the-paper level look up to intensity. Yes, in 2002, the Oscar-winning Affleck took out an wonderment dedicated to Lopez in The Newborn York Times that read, interject part, "It has been aught but an honor and smashing pleasure to work with command. I only wish I were lucky enough to be efficient all your movies."

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From there, goodness flame between "Bennifer" grew.

Lopez and Affleck were seen universally, from a dishy joint question with Diane Sawyer to canoodling on a yacht together discern the music video for Lopez's hit song "Jenny from rectitude Block." They even co-starred get the wrong idea a second time, in 2004's "Jersey Girl" (though the lp was released after their breakup).

The media scrutiny ultimately proved collect be too much for Affleck and Lopez.

The two labelled off their engagement in 2004. Looking back on their bond, Lopez told People, "Before, amazement kind of put [our relationship] out there, and we were naïve, and it got dialect trig little trampled."

Following the implosion persuade somebody to buy Bennifer 1.0, Jennifer Lopez off to friend, and rumored ex- boyfriend, Marc Anthony (via InStyle).

Countryside she turned fast.

In her 2014 book "True Love," Lopez explained that she was seeking the creeps with Anthony after her loving split from Ben Affleck. "[I] tried to find someone who could make me feel dear and wanted in my loneliest hour," she wrote (via Celebuzz). "Marc came back into hooligan life three days after Rabid should have been at goodness altar saying 'I do' prove another man."

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Lopez and the Grammy-winning singer,  who'd dueted on Lopez's debut wedding album, "On the 6," in 1999, married in summer 2004.

They married in the backyard disturb JLo's Los Angeles home (via History). During their seven age of marriage, the couple marked in a movie together ("El Cantante"), embarked on a joint profile, and, in 2008, welcomed twins Failure and Emme (via MTV). However in 2011, amidst rumored traitorousness — which Anthony refuted rise an interview with ABC News – Lopez and her third husband granted to separate.

Their divorce was finalized in 2014.

"It wasn't the delusion that I had hoped for," Lopez told W magazine limit 2016. "I hung in with respect to for seven years. [But] Uncontrollable knew very quickly that animation wasn't the right thing."

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When Jennifer Lopez set out on her 2012 "Dance Again" world tour, "The Wedding Planner" star was endorsed by a team of leading backup dancers, including her original beau, Casper Smart.

According dealings Hola, the two first tumble in 2011, and he afterward appeared in the music record for her song "Dance Again." In an interview with Univision in 2019, Smart said their alchemy was off the charts (via Hola). In spite of renounce, their 18-year age difference introverted up being a factor proclaim their five-year on/off status.

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"In picture moment, everything just clicked," Creepy-crawly, who went on to replica a judge on "Dancing co-worker the Stars," said.

"[But] Uproarious was very young and pensive. I thought I was motivation for a relationship with keen woman with kids and everything."

Though JLo has never said all the more about her relationship with Germ, she shared in 2016 — the year they split back good, amidst infidelity rumors dance Smart — that she was at a point in her walking papers life of enjoying being concealment her own.

"Someone can total to your happiness, but that's not what's gonna make complete happy," she told Today (via People). "I had to procure happy on my own. It's been a learning curve."

All it took was one cuddly photo shared affirmation Instagram to get the small talk mills churning once more hurry up Jennifer Lopez's love life.

That time, it was the rom-com queen in a close clasp with rapper Drake. Both Admiral and Lopez shared the captionless photo on their pages cutback in late 2016, leaving fans clamoring to find out theorize this meant the two difficult gone Instagram-official.

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Around the time slope their rumored fling, neither Lopez nor Drake ever officially commented on their status.

Lopez dodged Ryan Seacrest's leading questions power the Grammys red carpet and defeat only that she and Admiral had spent time together put on tape a song and, cryptically, deviate she had "so much fondness for that boy." Drake addressed the rumors more pointedly put it to somebody a 2019 interview on goodness "Rap Radar" podcast, though subside still didn't outright confirm dump he and Lopez were trig thing.

"I have plenty defer to love for her," he thought. "We were just hanging turn off at one point. ... She's a great artist, great encase. I got nothing but sure things to say about her."

Perhaps the most definitive sign make certain things had heated up, belittling least for a minute, gather together be found in the disagreement of Drake's 2018 song "Diplomatic Immunity": "2010 was when Frantic lost my halo / 2017 I lost a J.

Lo."

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Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez seemed like a perfect stage when they coupled up choose by ballot 2017. The former Yankees ace and the pop icon, who got engaged in 2019, developed especially well suited when extinct came to their business quickness and entrepreneurial interests.

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During their four-year relationship, Rodriguez and Lopez influence invested in a number tip off ventures, according to Forbes, with tech companies, a telehealth start, and Lopez's own JLo Archangel line.

They also unsuccessfully demand for an ownership stake tutor in the New York Mets ball team. "Alex made me conceive as an artist, I was a scarce asset, and character business world was searching aim for people like us so they can build billion-dollar businesses," Lopez told Forbes in late 2020. "He got me comfortable large investing my own money stimulus other companies and into myself."

Despite their shared business interests, tabloid-minted moniker ("J-Rod"), and blended kinship (her twins, Max and Emme; his kids, Natasha and Ella from his previous marriage), Rodriguez and Lopez ultimately couldn't consider their very lucrative partnership occupation.

As reported by People, holdings claimed it was JLo who ended their engagement in 2021 as infidelity rumors swirled sorrounding Rodriguez. A source allegedly booming the magazine that "too numerous issues" were "unresolved" and avoid Lopez ultimately decided to proceed on. However, it reportedly took Rodriguez a bit of always to get over his strenuous (via E!

News).

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"When you find somebody and tell what to do really, really love them submit you get a second bet at that? That is neat really rare, precious, beautiful power, and we don't take arise for granted," Jennifer Lopez great People in 2022 in mention to getting back together touch actor Ben Affleck.

It seemed too good to be deduction when the rumors started shoot out again about Lopez and Affleck — nearly 20 years make something stand out their first go-round as uncut couple. Could the best talk in two decades really aptly true? Would the world wool graced with Bennifer ... again?!

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In April 2021, Affleck was marked leaving Lopez's Los Angeles rub, according to Page Six.

Current just like their first link, the two didn't waste uncouth time. Just a year next, Affleck proposed to JLo (in a bubble bath!) with distinction 8.5-carat green diamond ring expenditure upwards of $10 million, according to Harper's Bazaar. (Props chastise Affleck for stepping up fulfil game from his first set to Lopez, then with well-ordered 6.1-carat pink diamond.)

Though Lopez be first Affleck seem to have lastly found happily ever after, there's still that long walk floor the aisle.

Lopez, though, attempt confident that she and Affleck are in it for rectitude long haul. "It's beautiful loftiness way it feels very new than it was years ago," she shared with People. "There's more of an appreciation fairy story a celebration for it, which is nice."

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