Alex Rodriguez’s recent decision to become the owner of the NBA team seemed to indicate that his engagement to Jennifer Lopez was over, as six people close to the current partner have reported on the page.
Days before Rodriguez, 45, and Lopez, 51, confirmed their breakup on the “Today” program, and a month after page six reported exclusively that they were finished, the former Yankees fugitive was said to be ending. a deal to buy the Minnesota Timberwolves with close friend Marc Lore and not the pop diva.
“It was clear they had split up when she wasn’t in the Timberwolves deal as if she was in the Mets’ offer, maybe she didn’t want to move to Minnesota,” said a source close to Rodriguez, who noted the The couple’s failed bid for 2020 to buy the New York Mets against rival bidder Steve Cohen.
As co-owner of Timberwolves, Rodriguez is expected to spend a lot of time in Minneapolis with the team, far from Lopez’s orbit.
“It would have added a lot more glamor to the team. But when you have a team, you have to be in the city; you have to be there, you have to go to every game,” the source continued.
While the couple’s split in the Timberwolves deal may have pointed to problems in paradise, sources said they remain friends and plan to make other deals together.
“They love working together,” one privileged person said.
“They will continue to work together in all their companies,” another source said. “They’ve always encouraged each other to dream big and get big: they’ve built something really unique together and the success of their business alliances and goals are important to them.”
Meanwhile, another source close to Rodriguez’s camp said it had been a complex process that divided their joint business interests, a process that has been going on for more than a month at A.Rod Corp. 24 hours a day.
Lopez and Rodriguez’s representatives did not immediately return our requests for comment.
Page six first revealed in March that Lopez and Rodriguez’s relationship was on the rocks after a two-year engagement.
The couple, who briefly tried to do so after the breakup of the division news, had several problems in their relationship, but the last straw was A-Rod’s proximity to the reality star. “Southern Charm” show, Madison LeCroy, fonts said.
“The Madison LeCroy scandal was the reason they finally broke up. There were already problems, but Jennifer was embarrassed,” a source told us earlier.
Lopez, who shares 13-year-old twins, daughter Emme and son Max, with her ex-husband Marc Anthony, had been busy shooting her next film, “Shotgun Wedding,” in the Dominican Republic at the time of the news of the division was first broken.
On Thursday, Rodriguez and Lopez finally confirmed that they had separated and said they are “better as friends.”
“We have realized that we are better as friends and we hope to continue to be so. We will continue to work together and support each other in our projects and joint ventures, “Rodriguez and Lopez said in a joint statement to” Today. “
A source close to Lopez said she and Rodriguez wanted to keep the division simple for the sake of their children.
“Their children have come very close during their relationship and, for the children, they wanted to keep the division as simple as possible,” the source told us. “Jennifer and Alex are two very busy people with a great public life.”
A member of Rodriguez also noted that while he and Lopez “were very well together,” they were simply not on the same page.
“He also tried to reconcile, but he wants to do things on his own terms,” the source said. “They were great together, but in the end they are very different.”