Ben Affleck's cruel birthday blow to Jennifer Lopez revealed as it emerges he snapped up $20.5M bachelor pad on the day she turned 55

On nan aforesaid time Jennifer Lopez celebrated her 55th birthday, her hubby Ben Affleck closed escrow connected his caller $20.5 cardinal 'bachelor pad.'

The Last Duel star, 51, purchased his caller location successful the Pacific Palisades connected Wednesday, July 24, arsenic nan vocalist marked her day without him. 

Coincidentally, that's besides erstwhile nan Hustlers prima finalized nan waste of her four-bedroom New York City penthouse for $23 million, arsenic per People.

His acquisition came days aft they publically listed their shared Beverly Hills mansion for a whopping $68 million.

The brace person not been pictured together successful months amid ongoing rumors of a split, and person spent astir of nan summertime isolated connected different coasts.

It comes pursuing claims that Affleck's abrupt acquisition of nan location has been a 'stab to nan heart' for Lopez.

Affleck's location has 5 bedrooms and six bathrooms pinch meal and eating areas, arsenic good arsenic a abstracted family room, den, walk-in closets, media room, powder room, impermanent location and much amenities emblematic of a multi-million dollar house.

The location was designed by designer Cliff May.

Meanwhile nan penthouse Lopez sold is simply a four-bedroom, 7.5-bath duplex. 

A root told RadarOnline: 'Ben’s determination to move into his ain location is nan last insult.'

This improvement is nan strongest motion yet that Affleck's matrimony to Jennifer whitethorn beryllium heading toward divorce.

The This Is Me...Now creator and Affleck listed their Beverly Hills location for waste earlier this month, aft purchasing nan property for $60 cardinal past May, but they didn't find immoderate contiguous buyers.

They precocious spent their 2nd wedding day isolated amid reports that they're surviving successful abstracted homes.

As Lopez stayed successful their marital home, Affleck has been surviving successful a $100,000 monthly rental that's conscionable a short thrust from his ex-wife Jennifer Garner's Brentwood house.

He and Garner, 52, were joined from 2005 to 2018, and they stock children Violet, 18, Fin, 15, and 12-year-old Samuel. 

Reports of Affleck and Lopez's marital woes began circulating successful May aft nan brace hadn't been seen together since precocious March. 

A root told In Touch astatine nan time: 'Ben already moved retired and they'll apt person to waste nan dream location they spent 2 years searching for.

'They'll ne'er extremity loving each other, but she can't power him, and he can't alteration her. There's nary measurement it could person lasted.'

One of Lopez's LA-based friends told nan Daily Mail: 'If it is only a mobility of putting nan activity successful past you had amended judge that [Jen] will move it around.

'She has thrown her bosom and psyche into her emotion communicative pinch Ben and will not springiness it up without a fight,' nan root added. 'From what I perceive location is still a batch of emotion there, truthful location must beryllium hope.'

Meanwhile, Lopez is presently successful New York City, aft precocious celebrating her day successful nan Hamptons.

After hosting a Bridgerton-themed party, wherever Affleck was not successful attendance, Lopez thanked her fans for their day messages successful a post.

The On The Floor hitmaker told her 251million Instagram followers that she was 'overwhelmed' by nan outpouring of emotion she has received from astir nan globe.

Later successful her post, Lopez admitted to being 'fragile' and declared her fans arsenic her 'biggest gift.'

The mates besides spent nan Fourth of July play apart, arsenic nan This Is Me... Now prima celebrated successful nan Hamptons pinch her family and friends while nan Deep Water character stayed successful Los Angeles.

Earlier this summer, reports surfaced that Jen and Ben person been surviving isolated for 'months,' amid speculation that they are headed for divorce.

Meanwhile, Us Weekly claimed connected Wednesday that location is simply a 'sliver of hope' that Ben and Jennifer could get backmost together.

'Jennifer suggested they conscionable return clip to fig it out,' nan root said.

It was besides added that Bennifer 2.0 'still haven't made a decision' regarding splitting.

They tied nan knot astatine A Little White Wedding Chapel successful Las Vegas connected July 16, 2022. They said 'I do' again successful a much lavish ceremonial nan pursuing period successful Georgia of 2022.