Perpetual House Hunters Ben Affleck And Jennifer Lopez Fell Out Of Escrow On A $34.5M Pacific Palisades Home
Marriages and couple’s tattoos are merely fleeting, temporary symbols of love. But joint home ownership takes real commitment, and even though Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are more deeply in love than any couple has ever been at any point in human history, they still can’t seem to work up the nerve to hold hands and “jump the curb,” as they say. Even serial playboy Pete Davidson is laughing at their hesitation to make it official in the eyes of the State of California Franchise Tax board.
TMZ reports that Bennifer has backed out of escrow on a $34.5 million love shack in Pacific Palisades at the 11th hour and was caught canoodling with/at “a nearby mansion last Tuesday – while they were still in escrow on the other house.” True love may be alive and well, but Bennifer’s real estate agent is probably thinking about playing dead. TMZ reports:
Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck can’t make up their minds … they have dropped out of escrow again on a house they were about to buy.
Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ … JLo and Ben have pulled the plug on the Pacific Palisades home which they seemed set on buying for $34.5 million.
Our sources say … they were supposed to close escrow last Friday, but just before it was signed, sealed and delivered they pulled out.
Wow. Ben’s pull-out game is rivaled only by Jen’s. It’s a wonder they have any kids’ bedrooms at all!
Our sources say they are now in escrow on ANOTHER house. We don’t know if it’s the same one they looked at Tuesday. We’re told they looked at yet another house last week as well.
At least one of the estates they looked at last week was going for more than twice what they were spending on the one that just fell out of escrow. This is at least the second house they’ve been in escrow on but bailed on at the last minute.
Rumors that the couple was planning to get their Brady Bunch on and mingle households began just a month after A-Rod came home to an empty house and a letter from J Lo, probably taped to one of those Home Goods frames with the heart drawn in the sand, explaining that she had left, but that he could keep what was His, because she already done had Herses with Ben. Again. That was June of 2021. Since then, Bennifer has dallied with an $85 million estate in Beverly Hills, fell out of love/escrow on a $50 million compound in Bel Air, flirted with a pair of Los Angeles properties at the $71 and $64 million, and grabbed the ghost of Aaron Spellings’ ass as they toured the $165 Spelling Manor. And now, after coming this close to getting their latest conquest to sign an NDA, they’re back on the market. But I imagine at their price point; they’ve pretty much run through all their options. Ben and Jen have probably bumped into every sugar wall in the state by now. If they’re not careful, they’re going to end up having to sign a dark-sided contract with Ellen Degeneres and Portia de Rossi which comes with a clause requiring that Kris Jenner must officiate their inevitable surprise vow renewal ceremony.
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