The last time Jennifer Lopez saw Ben Affleck was at his rented house on Thursday last week, to wish him well on his 52nd birthday and spend some time with his children.
She is close to Violet, 18, Fin, 15, and Samuel, 12 – his teens with first wife Jennifer Garner.
The day before, JLo took Samuel out shopping as he prepared to return to school, and dropped him off at Affleck’s home in Brentwood, LA, afterwards.
Affleck’s daughter Violet, who just started at Yale University, was spotted the previous week in one of her stepmother’s dresses. (I’m told that wasn’t a message of any sort – just the normal wardrobe raiding which you might expect from a teenager.)
Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck attend the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles last year
The celebrations on Thursday were a final blended family get together of the summer – and no doubt a rather awkward one.
For that was the last gathering before JLo finally chose to officially pull the plug on their marriage, filing for…