Jennifer Lopez is all smiles as she reconciles with her husband Ben Affleck ,putting their differences aside and strengthening their marriage.”

After a relationship that spanned two decades, two engagements, two weddings and headlines too numerous to count, Jennifer Lopez has filed for divorce from Ben Affleck.

The filing on Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court brought to an apparent end a celebrity coupling — or at least the second instalment of it — that dazzled from the very heights of the pop culture firmament and emblazoned countless tabloid covers.

They became known, even before such power-couple portmanteaus were ubiquitous, as “Bennifer”.

TMZ said Lopez listed the date of separation as April 26, 2024. It added that she did not mention any prenuptial agreement.

After meeting, falling in love and getting engaged in the early 2000s — and starring together in 2003’s infamous Gigli and 2004’s Jersey Girl — the couple parted ways, blaming in part the pressure of the public eye.

But to the delight of many and perhaps the scepticism of others, they reunited two decades later and married — twice — in 2022.

“Love is beautiful. Love is kind. And it turns out love is patient. Twenty years patient,” wrote Lopez, announcing their first, quickie Las Vegas wedding that July, and signing off as Jennifer Lynn Affleck.

The couple had flown to Las Vegas, stood in line for their license with four other couples and were wed just after midnight at A Little White Wedding Chapel, where Lopez said a Bluetooth speaker played their brief march down the aisle. She called it the best night of the couple’s lives.

A month later, they had a much grander wedding at Affleck’s house in Georgia, in front of friends and family.