Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez to file for DIVORCE after brutal birthday swipe

Jennifer Lopez is now ready more than ever to divorce Ben Affleck.

Friends have claimed that the 51-year-old ‘Last Duel’ actor and the superstar singer, 55, are once again pushing ahead with divorce after a final attempt at reconciliation in recent weeks failed. 

The couple’s divorce documents ‘are finalized, but not yet turned in’, multiple sources have claimed. 

The news follows Affleck buying a new $20.5 million ‘bachelor pad’ mansion in the Pacific Palisades on Wednesday, July 24, the day Lopez turned 55. 

WHAT THE PURCHASE MEANS?

Friends of Lopez’s claimed Affleck’s sudden bachelor pad purchase on her birthday had been a ‘stab to the heart’. 

His purchase came days after the couple listed their Beverly Hills mansion for $68 million.

July 24 also marked the day Lopez also finalized the sale of her four-bedroom New York City penthouse for $23 million, People reported.

‘They finalized the divorce papers with her a month ago, but are waiting for the right time to drop them,’ one source close to the duo claimed. 

‘At that time, they will release a joint statement that will say how they have much love for each other and how they fought to make it work, but couldn’t.’