Jennifer Lopez has been married four times, and she has also had other high-profile relationships.
Lopez filed for divorce from her fourth husband, actor Ben Affleck, on August 20, according to TMZ. That romance crashed despite Lopez highlighting the relationship in a documentary, movie, and album.
Lopez, 55, has romanced a high-profile athlete, backup dancer, waiter, and a now-indicted rapper and record producer.
Here’s how each of Jennifer Lopez’s relationships started and ended:
10. Ojani Noa Was Jennifer Lopez’s 1st Husband
GettyOjani Noa was Lopez’s first husband. He has spoken out negatively about her in interviews. In an interview on Despierta América, according to a translation by Page Six, Noa, a waiter when he met Lopez, said the divorce was partly the fault of Lopez’s next boyfriend, Sean “Diddy” Combs. Lopez and Noa divorced in 1998 after 11 months of marriage, the Mercury News reported.
9. Cris Judd Was Jennifer Lopez’s 2nd Husband
GettyCris Judd was Lopez’s second husband. Lopez was married to dancer Judd from 2001 to June 2002, Rolling Stone reported. Judd said the intense media attention impacted their marriage, Us Magazine reported.
8. Marc Anthony Was Jennifer Lopez’s 3rd Husband
GettySinger Marc Anthony Was Lopez’s third husband. He is the father of her twins, Emme and Max. Page Six reported that Lopez, in her book, revealed that she got together with Anthony a week after a broken engagement with Ben Affleck. They married in 2004.
“Thinking back, maybe deep down I knew that this was a Band-Aid on the cut, that my wound hadn’t been stitched or healed,” she wrote, according to Page Six. “But I pushed all that to the back of my mind. Because life takes unpredictable twists and turns, right? And you’ve just got to go with what you feel is best in the moment.”
People reported that the Lopez and Anthony broke up because of “nonstop arguing.”
7. Ben Affleck Had a Broken Engagement With Jennifer Lopez
GettyIn her 2024 documentary, “The Greatest Love Story Never Told,” Lopez revealed that she and Affleck broke up for the first time three days before their wedding in 2003. She said that the fact Affleck likes public attention more than she does caused conflict between them.
“Ben and I split up at the moment when I thought we were committing to each other forever, it was my first real heartbreak, it felt like my heart had been torn out of my chest,” wrote Lopez.
6. Jennifer Lopez Had a Tumultuous Relationship With Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs
GettyYears before he was indicted, Lopez dated Sean “Diddy” Combs. She indicated in an interview that infidelity concerns rocked the relationship, according to an excerpt from a Vibe Magazine interview reported by EW. Lopez dated Diddy from 1999 through 2001, People Magazine reported.
5. Jennifer Lopez Was Engaged to Alex Rodriguez
GettyFormer Yankee slugger Alex Rodriguez was engaged to Lopez before she reunited with Affleck. According to People Magazine, Lopez felt that she couldn’t trust Rodriguez, and the COVID-19 pandemic forced a postponement of their wedding plans. They dated for two years before becoming engaged in 2019, and they broke up in 2021, People reported.
4. Jennifer Lopez Dated Dancer Casper Smart
GettyAnother backup dancer who dated Lopez was Casper Smart. “We got together and broke up and are now together again,” she told Today of Smart. “I still think about getting married and having that long life with someone. I love the movie ‘The Notebook.’ A dream of mine is to grow old with someone.”
“She kicked him out because he cheated on her and he got caught,” a source told People. “It happened two years ago, and he promised he would never do it again and once he did, she was done. They broke up in 2016 after dating off-and-on since 2011.
3. Jennifer Lopez Dated Drake, Reports Say
According to Cosmopolitan, Lopez dated singer Drake in 2016, but by 2017 it was over. Cosmopolitan described this relationship as a “short-lived fling.”
2. Ben Affleck Again
GettyThe two reunited and married, but they separated in April 2024, according to TMZ. The couple has not commented on the reasons for their breakup, but details of their divorce settlement were reported in January 2025.
“They are very different people,” a source explained to People. “She’s super public and is more social, and he’s more of an introvert and is happy to hang out at home.”
Another source told People that Affleck has “mood swings,” with “big highs and big lows. Who he said he was and who he turned out to be were two different people.”
1. No one!
GettyIn an interview with Interview Magazine after she filed for divorce from Affleck, Lopez indicated that she was trying to learn how to be on her own. She also said she was trying to work on her self-esteem, saying that she had a difficult childhood emotionally.
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Jennifer Lopez’s Exes: How Each Relationship Started & Ended