Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez stepped out along with their youngsters amid their divorce.
On Saturday, Sept. 14, the previous couple have been photographed collectively at The Beverly Hills Lodge in Los Angeles, marking the primary time they’ve reunited publicly alongside their youngsters since Lopez filed for divorce from the actor on Aug. 20.
In images of the outing shared by DeuxMoi, Affleck, 52, and Lopez, 55, might be seen standing exterior of the lodge after which strolling inside collectively. The Air actor wore blue denims and a blue button-up shirt with darkish sun shades, whereas Lopez sported a black long-sleeve crop prime, matching black denims and light-shaded sun shades.
The pair have been additionally photographed collectively inside a black SUV, with Affleck behind the wheel and the Atlas actress within the passenger’s seat.
Lopez and Affleck’s joint outing comes almost a month after the “Can’t Get Sufficient” singer filed for divorce from Affleck after greater than two years of marriage. In her submitting, she listed April 26, 2024, because the date of their separation.
“She tried actually onerous to make issues work, and is heartbroken,” a supply informed PEOPLE of Lopez on the time of the submitting. “The children are a prime precedence, as they at all times have been.”
Final week, Lopez attended the premiere of her and Affleck’s new film, Unstoppable, on the Toronto International Film Festival. She wore a dazzling silver floor-length Tamara Ralph dress for the occasion, and was spotted chatting with Affleck’s longtime pal and manufacturing associate Matt Damon for greater than 20 minutes on the premiere’s afterparty.
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“Jen and Matt started speaking and had a protracted, deep dialog,” an insider informed PEOPLE, including that the 2 laughed and spoke extra severely. Additionally they held fingers as they chatted for a number of minutes.
Lopez stars within the sports activities biopic about wrestler Anthony Robles, and Affleck and Damon, 53, produced the movie underneath their manufacturing firm Artists Equity.
Affleck did not attend the film premiere and was as a substitute photographed stepping out with two of his youngsters — Samuel, 12, and Seraphina, 15 — in Los Angeles that very same day. He shares the youngsters, together with 18-year-old daughter Violet, together with his ex-wife Jennifer Garner.
Following Lopez’s journey to Toronto, a supply informed PEOPLE that the Marry Me star was “so over all the eye on her private life” and that she was feeling extra optimistic after doing press for Unstoppable.
“The film festival truly uplifted her,” the supply defined. “She was excited to give attention to work once more.”
A separate supply informed PEOPLE that Lopez “appears a lot happier than just a few weeks in the past,” including that she “continues to search for a brand new dwelling for her and the youngsters” and is “taking her time.”