Ben Affleck Embraces Latina Love Post-Jennifer Lopez Divorce

Ben Affleck has a sense of humor about his love life in the wake of his split from Jennifer Lopez.

The actor, 52, was approached by TMZ while out for dinner at Lavo Ristorante in West Hollywood on Thursday, May 8 and was asked how “Hollywood’s most eligible bachelor” was feeling in Spanish.

Taking the comment in his stride, Affleck laughed off the question and replied in Spanish, “Muy bien,” which translates to “very good.”

The outlet then asked Affleck: “Do you still like Latinas?” Affleck didn’t hesitate when replying, “Of course I do.”

Affleck is fluent in Spanish after picking up the language while filming a children’s TV show in Mexico for a year when he was 13. His ex-wife Lopez, 55, is one of the most prominent Latin-American singers and actresses in Hollywood.

Lopez filed for a dissolution of marriage from Affleck on August 20, 2024. The former couple finalized the divorce in January this year, according to documents obtained by Us Weekly at the time.

Lopez and Affleck were linked for more than 20 years. The actors met on the set of Gigli in 2001, before becoming engaged in November 2002. They were initially scheduled to get married in September 2003, but they called off their wedding days before the planned ceremony. They confirmed their split in January 2004.

Decades later, Lopez and Affleck found their way back to one another in May 2021 and became engaged for the second time in April 2022. They married in Las Vegas in July 2022 and also had a second ceremony in Georgia the following month.

Affleck recently broke his silence on his split with Lopez in an interview with GQ magazine that was published on March 25.

During the interview, the Hypnotic actor referenced The Greatest Love Story Never Told, the documentary he filmed with Lopez during their marriage that shed light on their relationship. Affleck said it was “important to say” that there wasn’t “some major fracture” in his and Lopez’s marriage that exists in the documentary.

“It’s not like you can watch that documentary and go, ‘Oh, now I understand the issues that these two had,’” he said.

Affleck added that he was full of respect for his ex-wife and claimed that there was no single cause that led to the demise of their marriage.

“There’s a tendency to look at breakups and want to identify root causes or something. But honestly … the truth is much more quotidian than probably people would believe or would be interesting,” he continued. “There’s no scandal, no soap opera, no intrigue [about our divorce]. The truth is, when you talk to somebody, ‘Hey, what happened?’ Well, there is no, ‘This is what happened.’”