The stress of moving has destroyed many a marriage, or so common knowledge would have us believe. Does that cliche apply when the couple in question is Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck, who presumably have folks on hand to help with life’s most mundane chores? But with speculation running wild that Lopez and Affleck’s less-than-two-years-old marriage is over, news that the couple is selling their shared Beverly Hills home feels stressful, indeed.

Public sightings of the newlyweds sharply declined since the February release of The Greatest Love Story Never Told, a documentary ostensibly about the making of Lopez’s self-funded, Affleck-inflected visual album This Is Me… Now. Affleck and Lopez’s relationship is heavily featured in the doc, including Affleck’s discomfort that their real-life romance was mined for This Is Me.

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are seen out and about on March 30, 2024, in New York, New York.

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“I did really find the beauty and the poetry and the irony in the fact that it’s the greatest love story never told,” he says at one point in the documentary. “And if you’re making a record about it, that seems kind of like telling it.”

Those seeking a reason for a rift are probably mulling Affleck’s other comments in the doc, such as “Things that are private, I’d always felt were sacred and special—because, in part, they’re private. So that was a bit of an adjustment for me.” And a scene in which the two discuss their reconciliation after a breakup in 2004 feels especially prescient.

“Listen, one of the things I don’t want is a relationship on social media,” Affleck says he told Lopez. “I sort of realized it’s not a fair thing to ask. It’s sort of like, you’re going to marry a boat captain, and [you’re like], ‘Well, I don’t like the water.’”

It is perhaps admirable for an aquaphobic to throw those fears to the wind to be with their beloved captain, but in the real world, it’s rarely that simple. That, along with incidents like that viral door slam from over a year ago, has prompted people to speculate from the beginning that their marriage might be on borrowed time. (Representatives for Affleck and Lopez have not responded to Vanity Fair’s request for comment.)

That’s also why a TMZ report that Affleck and Lopez hired Buying Beverly Hills Santiago Arana to sell the $60 million Beverly Hills home the couple moved into just last year feels especially significant. According to the outlet, Arana has been showing the 12 bedroom/24 bath home for about two weeks, but no buyers have emerged for the property, which reportedly boasts an asking price of $65 million.

The real estate deal isn’t the only disruption in Lopez’s life in recent weeks, as earlier this month, the polymath also canceled her ambitious national stadium tour. According to a statement posted to Lopez’s website, the concert series—which struggled with slow ticket sales—was iced so Lopez could “be with her children, family and close friends.”

Eve Batey

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