An up-to-date compendium of J.Lo’s Hamptons pap strolls

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Hello and welcome to Gossip Time, a weekly guide to the stars by Allie Jones. Today, we are discussing Jennifer Lopez’s recent engagements with the paparazzi on the East Coast, while her husband, Ben Affleck, remains in L.A. This post is just for paid subscribers; if you’d like to sign up, you can do so in the box below.

Ben Affleck and Mrs. Jennifer Lynn Affleck celebrated their two-year wedding anniversary separately last week. Then J.Lo turned 55 yesterday and celebrated that without Ben, too. A far cry from three years ago, when Bennifer officially went public as a couple on J.Lo’s Instagram with her now-iconic post “5 2 … what it do …”:

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In our unfortunate present, it looks like Ben and Jen are on the brink of divorce. But that has not stopped J.Lo from celebrating her birthday with multiple parties and Instagram tributes. First we got the body-check selfie (caption: “This Is Me…Now,” which is the title of her failed album about her love for Ben):

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Then we got the video recap of her Bridgerton-themed birthday party, which I really can’t even get into except to say that J.Lo perfectly designed an event at which she looks amazing and everyone else looks ridiculous: