Jennifer Lopez is one of the most active celebrities in love. In 35 years of sentimental emotions eight men have marked her love life, but only one has given her children: Marc Anthony and only another has given her a second chance.
Their love affair dates back to 1985 when he was a teenager and had a love affair with businessman David Cruz, followed twelve years later with model Ojani Noa, rapper Sean Combs, choreographer Cris Judd, actor Ben Affleck , the singer Marc Anthony, the dancer Casper Smart and the player Alex Rodríguez, with whom he has just finished the union.
Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez reported Thursday that they broke off their two-year engagement.
“We have realized that we are best friends and look forward to continuing to be so. We will continue to work together and support each other in our shared businesses and projects,” the couple said in a joint statement.
“We wish each other and their respective children the best. Out of respect for them, the only other comment we have to say is thanks to everyone who has sent kind words and support,” he added.
Lopez and Rodriguez began dating in early 2017 and committed in 2019. In March, they issued a statement refuting reports that they had separated.
The couple was nicknamed “J-Rod” three years ago after appearing on the cover of Vanity Fair magazine.
1. David Cruz, businessman 1985-1995)
It was 1984 and Jennifer Lopez at age 15 was walking the streets of the Bronx taken by the hand of David Cruz, her boyfriend of 16. They lasted 10 years until they separated in 1994, this relationship being the most lasting the singer has had and actress in her love story.
Cruz died on Saturday, March 21, 2019 at Moint Sinai West Hospital in Manhattan at the age of 51 from heart disease.
David was a reserved man who never gave statements to the press or JLO fans about those years of relationship.
In the mid-1990s, the New York star of Puerto Rican descent was struggling to get his first chances on the show scene.
With the rising success of “Jenny from the block” and the escalation in popularity, the relationship wore off and that’s when the breakup came.
At the time, Jennifer moved to Los Angeles in search of better opportunities, one of the main reasons for ending the love story, and David was left without a girlfriend in the neighborhood saw them grow up.
2. – Ojani Noa: exmesero, model and actor (February 1997 – January 1998)
Cuban actor Ojani Noa was 21 and she was 26. They had met in a Miami bar in 1996 and on February 22, 1997, they decided that the only possible step in their relationship was to go through the altar. as they did that day.
“I didn’t eat anything, she was very nervous, but happy, cheerful. She was also very happy and excited. There were 300 guests, including some celebrities like Oliver Stone and Cristian Castro,” he recalled years later.
It was during this period that Jennifer jumped into the movies with her role as Selena, a 1997 American musical drama biographical film written and directed by Gregory Nava about the life and career of the music star. tex-mex Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, a well-known recording artist in Mexico and Latino communities in the United States before she was assassinated in 1995, at the age of 23, by Yolanda Saldívar, the president of her fan club.
JLo. and Ojani divorced in 1998. Years later, she filed a lawsuit against him because she wanted to publish a book about their love affair.
In 2007, in an interview on the Spanish channel Antena 3, Ojani Noa defined JLo. using the adjectives “tender, shy and simple” and related the way in which the love between the two arose, that would finish in January of 1998, once the excamarero moved to Los Angeles, without getting to fulfill the anniversary of their wedding.
3.- Sean Combs: rapper and music producer (August 1998-January 2001)
The singer maintained a stormy relationship with rapper Sean ‘Puffy’ Combs or Puff Daddy.
At the dawn of the new millennium with their hit “Waiting for tonight” sounding on all radios, the couple was arrested for their alleged relationship with a shooting at a Big Apple club.
Both were arrested in December 1999 when they fled in the morning in a vehicle after a shooting at a nightclub in which three more people were injured.
Lopez was released almost immediately and Daddy was exonerated of all charges later.
In early 2001 the couple confirmed their breakup.
4.- Cris Judd: actor and choreographer (January 2001-June 2002)
Soon after ending Puff Daddy began his love affair with choreographer Cris Judd. They met during the recording of the video ‘Love Your say Cost a Thing’ in late 2000.
The couple married in September of the following year and the same lasted only eight months.
The pressure of being married to a JLo-sized star. affected this end.
“It’s very hard to be married to her because your privacy is invaded. You are no longer a normal person. Our wedding was a circus, several people were arrested for trying to climb a wall to have a look …”, he went so far as to comment.
5.- Ben Affleck: actor, producer, screenwriter and director (late 2002-January 2004)
Affleck and Lopez began dating in 2002. They met during the recording of the romantic comedy ‘Gigli’.
The romance between the 48-year-old actor and Lopez has long occupied headlines in the media, which referred to the couple as “Bennifer”. Shortly after they were engaged to marry in September 2003, the relationship came to an end.
They both shared roles in the hit films “Gigli” and “Jersey Girl.”
“She has great talent, but she has also worked hard for her success and I’m very happy that she seems to finally have the merit she deserves,” the actor said 10 days ago about “The Bronx Diva,” with whom he maintains a good relationship and from whom he also admires his eternal youth.
“Where do you keep the source of youth? Why do you look the same as in 2003 and I look like I’m 40 … at best ·”, the actor joked about the 50-year-old artist.
6.- Marc Anthony: singer and actor (June 2004-July 2014)
JLo began a romance with his friend Marc Anthony with whom he collaborated on the production of the song ‘Sway’ for the film ‘Shall we dance?’.
Lopez and Anthony secretly married in June 2004, just a few months after she broke up with Ben Affleck.
They separated in 2011 and divorced him leaving in June 2014, leaving as a result of the relationship two twin children, Maximilian David and Emme Maribel, born in February 2008.
“He’s the hardest working person I’ve ever met,” Marc told InStyle magazine a few days ago.
He also highlighted from her “how hard he works,” remembering that she is the first to arrive and the last to leave, and assured that he learned “a lot” from her.
7.- Casper Smart: actor and dancer (October 2011-June 2014).
Distant for more than a year, after three years of relationship (2011 to 2014), in mid-2015 the New York singer returned to the arms of this young dancer, 18 years younger.
Jennifer Lopez confirmed the relationship on Ellen DeGeneres’ television show. Although, of course, the singer stressed that they were not going to get married.
It was a reconciliation that came at one of the best moments for JLo, with new TV series and a great show in Las Vegas.
The final break came in August 2016. A year later he gave a new hit in love, this time with the Dominican player Alex Rodriguez.