Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck Keep Distance at His Son's Graduation | TMZ Live
Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck aren't even doing the air kiss thing anymore ... they were both at his son's graduation ceremony, but kept their distance and separated their families.
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00:00 We broke this story a week or so ago that J.Lo and Ben,
00:04 it's very clear they're headed for divorce.
00:06 They're selling the marital house.
00:08 He's already moved out.
00:09 She's looking for her own house right now.
00:12 And they got together yesterday.
00:14 And I think, Charles, it is further proof
00:17 there is a real divide between the two of them.
00:19 - And really, the only reason they are coming together
00:21 at this point is because of their kids
00:24 who have grown together and are very close.
00:27 And yesterday was Samuel, Ben's son,
00:31 with Jennifer Garner, was Samuel's graduation.
00:34 And Jennifer showed up with her kids.
00:37 They're all there.
00:39 The kids still feel like this is their family
00:42 and they wanted to be there, so Jennifer brought them.
00:44 But-- - It was a family.
00:46 - And even though it was a family, a family divided,
00:49 because from everything we've heard,
00:50 there was no connection.
00:52 They weren't sitting next to each other.
00:54 - No, no, I mean for the last two years,
00:55 it was a family. - Oh, yes, yes,
00:56 it was a family.
00:57 - But yesterday--
00:58 - Well, we don't know what happened inside, right, Charles?
00:59 We know that Jennifer showed up with Max and Emmy,
01:02 which are her two kids,
01:03 and they walked into the graduation ceremony.
01:04 And then Ben showed up with his mom separately.
01:06 He walked into the graduation ceremony.
01:07 As you mentioned, Jennifer Garner was there
01:09 with her and Ben's kids as well inside.
01:11 It was Samuel's graduation.
01:13 And I think it's important to note too
01:14 is that Max and Emmy do go to this school as well.
01:16 When they blended families, they went to the same school.
01:18 So all of these kids have a lot of friends
01:20 who are probably graduating as well.
01:21 So we don't know if they interacted inside,
01:23 but they definitely did not interact outside.
01:25 And then after the graduation,
01:27 then they go back to Ben's house
01:28 and they are having a party at Ben's Brentwood home
01:31 where he's staying right now.
01:32 And Jennifer shows up and she ends up staying there
01:34 until about 10 p.m. where we see her exiting alone.
01:37 So she didn't stay overnight.
01:38 - That's not gonna happen at this point.
01:39 - It's not gonna happen at this point.
01:41 I got a sense from a couple of phone calls
01:43 I made yesterday that this is not
01:46 particularly amicable at this point.
01:49 - Right.
01:50 - It's not divorce war,
01:53 but I just got a different sense
01:56 with these phone calls yesterday,
01:58 but it's very clear they are headed for divorce.
02:01 I don't know who they've contacted, if anybody.
02:04 It would seem that they've contacted somebody
02:06 given they've moved out.
02:07 But I think it's only a matter of time.
02:10 Speaking of the family house,
02:13 they are gonna take a bath when they sell this thing.
02:15 - Yeah, because you know that they paid 60 million for it.
02:19 They have, from what we've heard,
02:20 they're not listing it publicly, but they are.
02:23 There's a guy from the agency, his name is Santiago,
02:25 who is basically, he's carrying the listing,
02:28 he has the listing.
02:29 They've been showing it for about three weeks now.
02:32 - And they're asking 65 million.
02:34 - Around 65 million.
02:36 - Which you, on the surface, you go,
02:38 oh, well, they're gonna make five million.
02:39 Nope, no.
02:41 They are gonna end up taking a bath
02:43 between the fees that they gotta pay to the realtors.
02:48 - The fees should be minimum two and a half million dollars.
02:50 Plus, how much does the mansion tax come to?
02:53 - In California, there is a mansion tax,
02:55 and it comes to about three and a half million dollars
02:58 for a property like this.
03:00 So that's more than five million dollars,
03:02 and they did a lot of improvements on the house.
03:05 So when you add all that up, if they get 65,
03:09 and this house, they tried to sell this house,
03:11 the prior owner, for a long time,
03:13 and ended up leasing it to a bunch of billionaires,
03:16 but couldn't sell it.
03:17 It's a very specific, it's a beautiful property,
03:20 it's a very specific property.
03:22 And so, if they get to 65, they could be in the hold
03:26 for five or six million dollars.
03:28 - Yeah.
03:29 - Which you would think they would say pocket change, right?
03:32 - Yeah. - Nope.
03:33 - Not really, because, look, we have been put together,
03:36 actually, we've been working on,
03:38 and it's gonna be available this weekend.
03:41 It's gonna be on Fox, Sunday night,
03:43 a special that we put together called
03:46 J-Lo and Ben Missed Warning Signs.
03:48 Premieres Sunday night on Fox, and then--
03:50 - Hulu the next morning. - Hulu on Monday.
03:53 But we spoke to a lot of people in their world
03:56 about what those warning signs were.
03:59 - So let me-- - One of them.
04:00 - Let me explain John.
04:01 - Yes, because--
04:03 - John Peters is one of the most interesting people
04:07 I've met in Hollywood.
04:08 He was a hairdresser a long time ago,
04:11 and he is the character from which they developed
04:15 the character Shampoo, with Warren Beatty, the movie.
04:18 And John ended up hooking up with Barbra Streisand,
04:21 who he was with for 10 years,
04:22 been with all sorts of people,
04:24 and been incredibly successful as a producer.
04:26 - As a producer, yeah.
04:28 - Flashdance, Money Train, Prince of Tides.
04:31 - He put Jennifer Lopez in Money Train,
04:34 one of her first movies, so he knows the couple.
04:38 And you spoke to him about their lifestyle
04:42 and what the cost of that lifestyle is.
04:45 - When you spend 10 million a year to live,
04:49 eight million a year to live, goes quick.
04:53 Now where's the income coming in?
04:54 Where's it coming?
04:56 - And buying a $60 million house.
04:57 - That's just the beginning.
04:58 - Yeah.
05:00 - The private jets and everything else,
05:00 that's just the beginning.
05:01 - Yeah.
05:03 - Why can't she own a $30 million house
05:05 in Malibu or at the beach or in Bel Air?
05:08 30 million, 40 million, that's fine,
05:10 but not 60, $70 million with 10,000 square foot guest house
05:15 and 400 bedrooms, there's a waste of it.
05:17 Why do you think he left?
05:19 You know what, his sober self went, oh my God,
05:22 his loaded self went, whoa, look at me, bitch.
05:26 Look at that house, look at that woman.
05:28 That's the loaded side.
05:30 The real side's like, uh-oh, who put me here, man?
05:34 - Okay, could you not watch John Peters all day long?
05:37 - Nobody else would put it that way.
05:39 Nobody else would put it that way.
05:40 - So the doc, by the way, the documentary
05:42 is going to air on Sunday night right after the game
05:45 on Fox, the network, and Monday on Hulu.
05:50 J.Lo and Ben missed warning signs.
05:53 - Yes, hi, look, if it's me, I'm gonna tell you
05:58 that if my husband was renting some place
06:02 that he left my marital home,
06:04 and I'm wanting this relationship to work,
06:06 I'm absolutely going to be staying the night.
06:08 I think it says a lot that she left.
06:10 J.Lo knows how to smile for the cameras
06:12 even when she's not happy, so I have a feeling
06:15 that this meeting, this party after graduation
06:18 probably wasn't as amicable as we thought it was.
06:21 Plus, I didn't realize their kids
06:23 all went to the same school, so there was reason
06:25 for her to be at the graduation,
06:27 aside from being there for Ben and his children.
06:30 I think they're donezo.
06:31 - Well, they are donezo, but also,
06:34 there is a connection that each has to the other's kids.
06:36 I mean, they've been together,
06:38 and as we get into this in the doc,
06:40 it's so rough on kids that have to deal with it
06:43 multiple times.
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