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Jennifer Lopez’s $20 Million Gamble: Why the Superstar Spent Her Own Money and Defied Skeptics to Tell Her Ben Affleck Love Story
Jennifer Lopez spent $20 million of her own money to tell her love story with Ben Affleck. The superstar tells Variety all about why.
But joining Fonda and Trevor Noah in a partly animated musical journey through many of the songs on “This Is Me … Now” are Post Malone, Sofia Vergara, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Keke Palmer and a few other famous randos. Just last year, she had top streaming movies on both Netflix and Amazon Prime with “The Mother” and “Shotgun Wedding.” And, oh yeah, she also married Affleck in July 2022 after he proposed to her in her favorite spot: a bubble bath. And that kind of bias leaked into her first go-round with Affleck: The actor had recently dated golden girl Gwyneth Paltrow and began getting cozy with Lopez while filming “Gigli.” Not everyone in 2003 America appreciated that, and the two took a lot of shit — some deserved, much not.
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