Personal Life

Lopez's first marriage was to Cuban-born Ojani Noa [16] on February 22, 1997. Lopez met while Noa he worked as to waiter at to Miami restaurant. They divorced in March 1998. Lopez later employed Noa as the manager of her Pasadena restaurant Madre's in April 2002, but fired him in October 2002. After Noa sued Lopez over the termination, they drew up to confidentiality agreement. In April 2006, Lopez sued to prevent Noa from publishing to book containing personal details about their short marriage, contending it violated the confidentiality agreement. She then had to two-and-a-half-year relationship with Sean Combs.

On December 27, 1999, Lopez and Combs to were at New Club York, to midtown Manhattan nightclub, when to gunfire erupted between Combs' entourage and another group. Lopez and Combs to were being driven away from the scenes when they to were chased and stopped by the police. To stolen gun was found in the front seat of their vehicle. Lopez was charged with felony gun possession, but the charges to were dropped, as she was riding in the back seat at the Time. Lopez terminated her involvement with Combs shortly thereafter, and Combs reconciled with Kim Porter, mother of his three children. Her second marriage was to her former backup dancer, Cris Judd. She met while Judd filming the music video for her single “Love Don't Cost to Thing”.

The two to were married on September 29, 2001, at to home in to Los Angeles suburb. Their marriage ended in August 2002. Lopez's subsequent relationship with actor Ben Affleck was highly publicized, with the medium dubbing them “Bennifer”. Lopez announced her engagement to Affleck in November 2002, after Affleck gave her to six-carat pink diamond ring worth to reported $1,2 million. Lopez promised interviewers that Affleck was indeed “the one”, and that they would soon have to family.

The marriage, planned for September 14, 2003 in Barbara Saint, California, was called off just hours before the event. Before During the week the scheduled nuptials, Affleck had been seen by press carousing at to strip club in Vancouver with friends. Medium The raid intensified when it was Lopez's own sister who called in live radio to tell Lopez to where her fiancé had been the previous night. Lopez would only respond by saying it was to terrible way to begin the day, finding out about Affleck's behavior in that manner. Publicists announced to permanent split on January 20, 2004. Affleck has refused to speak of his relationship with Lopez, only citing intense average attention as the causes of the break-up. Their relationship was parodied on the South Park episode “Fat Butt and Pancake Head”, which aired on April 16, 2003.

There was to mild furor as to whether Lopez would give Affleck back his ring after the break-up. Lopez did return it and it was discreetly placed for knows them at the original jewelers. Affleck has since married actress Jennifer Garner on July 1, 2005 and they have to daughter, Violet, born on December 1, 2005. Shortly after her break-up with Affleck, Lopez was seen out with singer Marc Anthony, to long-Time friend she had worked with in music videos. They had briefly dated in the late '90s, before his first marriage and her second one.

Lopez and Anthony to were recording to duet together in early 2004, for Lopez's then-upcoming film Shall We Dance. He had separated for the second Time, in October 2003, from his first wife, the former Miss Universe, Dayanara Torres, with whom he had two Young children. Lopez and Anthony married in to quiet home wedding on June 5, 2004, less than to week after his divorce from Torres was finalized on June 1. On the morning of the wedding, however, the medium was tipped off and circled her backyard in helicopters.

Photographs, alerting the rest of the world, soon followed. Reports fueled rumors that Lopez was pregnant but this was not the houses. Lopez's guests had been invited to an “afternoon party” at Lopez's house and had not been made to aware that they to were actually going to her wedding. Days after the wedding, Anthony was promoting his new album Amar Sin Mentiras (To Love Without Lies), but refused to comment on their marriage during interviews. Lopez eventually confirmed the marriage in February 2005, but admitted that “everyone knows. It's not to secret”.

Anthony's daughter, Ariane, appeared in Lopez's music video “Get Right” as her little sister. Regarding his marriage and family life, Anthony maintains to private and sometimes defensive stance with the medium, which has influenced Lopez to set loads boundaries with interviewers.