Jennifer Lopez’s $20 Million Gamble: Why the Superstar Spent Her Own Money to Tell Her Ben Affleck Love Story

*sigh*

Some people just can't age gracefully, I guess.

So phoney.

This might be a camp event for the ages:

Someone then brings Lopez a laptop, and she says that what she’s about to show me will be embargoed until just before the project’s release. It’s a cut of “This Is Me … Now: A Love Story.” She pushes play.

I don’t want to spoil things for you. But joining Fonda and Trevor Noah in a partly animated musical journey through many of the songs on “This Is Me … Now” are Post Malone, Sofia Vergara, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Keke Palmer and a few other famous randos. They’re all on that Zodiac love council examining Lopez’s romantic foibles. There is a special appearance by guru to the stars Sadhguru, which, according to the documentary, added $200,000 to the film’s budget. Affleck plays a wizened TV commentator.

She still thinks it is 2003 when she and Ben were a hot topic.

[quote] Is JLo insane?

OP, have you heard her sing?

I cannot wait for Gigli, Part 2!

They are no Taylor and Travis.

Jesus Christ, take your millions and begone, woman!

I'm sick of hearing about you and seeing you trying to be so sexy all the time. You're starting to smell of desperation and look like the attention-starving Britney Jean Spears.

Can't you just be happy already and stop shoving your not-very-talented self down our throats???

[quote] I cannot wait for Gigli, Part 2!

Gobble, gobble!

We close with my expressing some skepticism that this is going to be the final chapter of the J. Lo love chronicles. Romance has been her jam for so long. She tells me it’s different this time.

“It’s funny,” she says. “It’s like, ‘OK, so now I’m in a healthier, more loving, good relationship. I’ve gotten to this place where I feel more whole, to be more present in a relationship. But what is that like? I get to live that, and that’s even more challenging than the last 20 years.”

Before saying goodbye, Lopez wants to clarify that one thing has not changed. “Don’t make a mistake,” she says. “I’m still going to be sexy.”

Estupido! Can't you see the glory and power of our LOVE STORY? It's epic, no one has ever loved like this before! Behold my flat stomach, extra-long weave and the adoration radiating from us? Of course you cannot understand the depth of our devotion. Now you will see. Now you will know that you will never know a great love like ours! That silly other Jennifer doesn't even exist in the same universe as our love. Bennifer is Immortal!

Watch for Affleck to divorce her in 2-3 years:

Lopez then invited musicians over to the house, and, for inspiration, showed them a stash of letters Affleck had written her, which he’d titled “The Greatest Love Story Never Told.” In the documentary, Affleck comes into the room and seems taken aback when he sees his letters being bandied about. He says to the camera, “I did really find the beauty and the poetry and the irony in the fact that it’s the greatest love story never told. If you’re making a record about it, that seems kind of like telling it

J Lo is going to be one of those celebrity's who constantly promise to retire and then never ends up doing that. And then throws a farewell concert every 10 years. All to get more attention.

JLo is 54 years old (that she admits to). What is she going to look like in 15 or 20 years? Will Ben with the roving dick be with her then?

Doubt it.

She needs to grow the fuck up.

$20 million? Wasn't J-Lo having financial difficulties not all that long ago?

Is this actually Ben's $20 million?

It's harder to age when a huge part of your brand depends on being sexy. This is of course the problem Madonna has been having for decades.

It helps that (as someone posted above) J-Lo has tried to brand herself on "romance" (which is more timeless) as she has on sexiness, but then she keeps trying to sell her personal life and she marries these highly visible men who have terrible substance abuse problems. All her relationships seem doomed to fail.

Why did Fonda sink so low?

What does celebrity possess?

It sounds like Ben was hurt by her trying to satisfy her unending need for attention in publicizing something that he wanted to keep private and between him.

Although he's a bit of an attention ho himself (see also: Dunkin' commercials).

"speaking for much of the universe"

Wrong.

She's a narcissist and that never ends well.

They're both narcisssists, it's a good thing that they're "together" if only to keep them from victimizing normal people.

[quote]Although he's a bit of an attention ho himself (see also: Dunkin' commercials).

He's admitted he was addicted to the press attention during the "Bennifer" thing two decades ago.

Awwww poor JLo:

R25, it's karma for this

Once they start lying on the ground to get their pictures taken from the air, they know they're old as hell.

You just know that eventually when entertainment projects can no longer draw any attention to her, she's going to go the armed standoff with police route. Jenny from the Block® WILL NOT be ignored!

You can tell from the Variety piece it was gonna be a dog. But Jen put on her Swarovski blinders and forged on. Everyone told her: Are you fucking crazy?! It's just hard to feel sorry for her. Martians pick up her desperation flares from outer space. And that rapist Benny Medina urging her on: "I'll let you buttfuck Ben if you help me greenlight this turkey."

R29, let's hope this is J Lo's Sex book and knocks her down two or three notches.

[quote] Is JLo insane?

Is the sky blue? Is it a day that ends in Y?

She's gonna feel like an idiot when Ben leaves her for a stripper that gave him a lap-dance.

[quote] Lopez then invited musicians over to the house

Wow. The most have been a shock for the house to see an actual musician.

It would be funny if Ben left her for Jane.

Now we know why Ben has to get Dunkin Donut money

How is it Jennifer Lopez is worth $400 million and Ben is only worth $140 million? He is the recipient of two Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. JLo is a nominee for the Teen Choice Award and the recipient of a fiery STD courtesy of Puff Diddler.

I’ll be the outlier here…I enjoyed her musical movie! It was campy and entertaining and the songs were catchy. Not the greatest move business-wise though obviously, bc she had been saturating social media already for a while with her various brand deals, the talk of this album, and the paparazzi shots of her and Ben. The better way to do it would have been to lay very low after they reunited, not give any advance press about the album coming, then drop it all (including the movie) as a surprise so people would be intrigued by the reveal instead of feeling like they’ve heard too much already.

J Lo wasted 20 mill of her own money to make a vanity companion movie to her flop album that has failed to ignite what will surely be a flop tour. And when her and Ben break up a year or two down the road, that home movie will find its truth worth from media folk using clips of Bennifer before and after the bust up...

It must be weird for Ben to be banging a post-menopausal, narcissistic, no-talent loser like JLo.

She hates herself, like all narcissists. And she’s addicted to attention.

He could’ve still been with de Armas, who still has vital eggs and doesn’t appear to be disordered. She’s counting her lucky stars she didn’t end up in that Cluster B hell.

Decisions have consequences.

Ben always gets the rap for being an addictive personality, and no doubt it’s true, but this woman is doing the same song and dance she has done every single time at this stage of her marriages. The script always includes a nod backward at the number of times she’s been ecstatic, like now, and the assertion that, oh, but this time it’s Different! And Better!

She doesn’t seem to be able to learn that “sexy” is how she gets ‘em and that never for one single second thinking about anything but herself and how she’s coming off to viewers is how she loses ‘em.

You would think that Jane Fonda, of all people, could sniff out a desperate narcissist like JLo.

Maybe she is as dumb as people say.

Does genZ know much about Jenny from the block? Her rags to riches story of going from Fly girl on In Living Color to getting the Selena movie?

What has she been in lately? Was she in love with Marc Anthony? How can she go 20 years from Ben then back to Ben? Will she go back to Marc?

The way she was talking about how she still has her booty was infantile.

r36, I guess royalties from music is more profitable than backend/points in films? She's had other ventures in cosmetics and shoes/clothing, licensing is where the money is.

"royalties.....are"

[quote] How is it Jennifer Lopez is worth $400 million and Ben is only worth $140 million?

The music industry has always been more lucrative than film. And, technically, she’s in the music industry.

I find anybody who obsesses about their relationship publicly really sad and pathetic.

R36 She has earned a massive amount from her 25 fragrances. They might not be that popular now, but Glow was a huge bestseller and she kept up the momentum for years with different flankers. She's easily made more than 200 million just on fragrances.

Don't forget about her discontinued clothing line from Kohl's!

One of her rich friends told her that she pays her assistant $90K a year and Lopez told her "They are only worth $55K at most."

R50 well her pie in the sky vanity movie video album bombed so she got her karma

JLo and Ben never stopped hooking up. I don't know if it was a "Same Time Next Year" thing or what but they supposedly continued to see each other on the side for all these years.

Late stage capitalism is a trip, y'all.

Massive self funded vanity project. The young messy WeHo Yaas Kween Slay Gays who talk in faux Southern accents and imitate sassy African-American women eat that insufferable narcissistic diva shit up.

They LOVE LOVE LOVE the likes of Madonna, Mariah, J. Lo, Taylor, Ariana and Beyonce. Makes me sick. At least the "older" generations had much more taste and were more restrained.

Those prissy little nympho Gen Z twinks will never fully know the shit we went through or how many of had to die for the very freedom and acceptance they take for granted.

Apologies for my psychotic late night rant.

JLo seems to have the maturity of a 14 year old

Cunty low talent wench

I see a destination vow renewal extravaganza in the next year or so because she is addicted to being a bride (and attention).

My pussy stinks.

Do I smell a Nobel?

She is living out a fantasy and wanted in on film. This marriage will not last but she will hang on for dear life.

14 years old? Yep that's about right. It's like Mimi without the singing ability.