Ben Affleck is settling in Pacific Palisades.
The 51-year-old Academy Award winner has closed escrow on a new $20.5 million estate in the oceanfront enclave, according to TMZ.
The home has five bedrooms and six bathrooms with breakfast and dining areas, as well as a separate family room, study, walk-in closets, media room, powder room, guest house and more amenities typical of a million-dollar home.
This development is the strongest sign yet that Affleck’s marriage to Jennifer Lopez, 55, may be headed for divorce.
This Is Me…Now artist and Affleck put their Beverly Hills home on the market earlier this month for $68 million, after purchasing the estate for $60 million in May of last year but finding no takers.
Ben Affleck is in escrow on a $20.5 million mansion in Los Angeles’s posh Pacific Palisades neighborhood amid rumors he and Jennifer Lopez (pictured in May 2023) are headed for divorce
Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles star Josh Flagg shared the news with TMZ. Lopez and Affleck had already listed their Beverly Hills home for $68 million earlier this month after purchasing the estate for $60 million in May of last year.
They recently celebrated their second wedding anniversary separately, amid rumors that they were living in separate houses.
While Lopez lives in their marital home, Affleck lives in a $100,000-a-month rental house a short distance from his ex-wife Jennifer Garner’s Brentwood home.
He and Garner, 52, were married from 2005 to 2018 and have children together: Violet, 18, Fin, 15, and 12-year-old Samuel.
Reports of Affleck and Lopez’s marital problems began circulating in May, after the couple had not been seen together since late March.
A source told In Touch at the time, “Ben has already moved out and they will likely have to sell the dream home they’ve been looking for for two years.
“They will never stop loving each other, but she can’t control him and he can’t change her. There’s no way it could have lasted.”
One of Lopez’s friends from LA told the Ny Breaking: ‘If it’s just a matter of putting in the effort, then you better trust that [Jen] will turn it around.
“She’s put her heart and soul into her love story with Ben and she’s not going to give it up without a fight,” the source added. “From what I hear there’s still a lot of love, so there has to be hope.”
Meanwhile, Lopez is in New York City, having recently celebrated her 55th birthday in the Hamptons.
After hosting a Bridgerton-themed party that Affleck didn’t attend, Lopez thanked her fans for their birthday wishes in a post.
“I honestly have the best, most amazing fans in the world,” she wrote.
While Lopez continued to live in their marital home, Affleck lived in a $100,000-a-month rental a short drive from his ex-wife Jennifer Garner’s Brentwood home
Reports of Affleck and Lopez’s marital woes began circulating in May, after the couple had not been seen together since late March
A source told In Touch at the time: ‘Ben has already moved out and they will probably have to sell the dream home they have been looking for for two years.’
“I can never express how touched I am or how incredibly blessed I feel to have you all in my life. Thank you so much,” Lopez continued.
“It’s hard to believe we spent all this time together,” she added.
‘It’s funny how, as I sit here and think back on this extraordinary journey, I still feel like I’m the same girl who started her journey so full of energy and bravado, so ready to take on the world on the outside, and yet so tender, vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but always full of love on the inside.