Unlike Ben Affleck, the rare, green-diamond engagement ring he presented to Lopez in 2022 reportedly isn’t going anywhere.
Lopez is expected to keep the $5.6 million ring after filing for divorce from Affleck on Tuesday, after two years of marriage. As the pop mega-star revealed to fans, the inside of the band was engraved with a message that promised that, this time, their love would last forever — unlike their first engagement, which ended in 2004. “Not. Going. Anywhere,” the engraving read.
Alas, Lopez’s hope of true, lasting love with Affleck wasn’t meant to be. But even though the Oscar winner is departing from her life, she’s keeping the pricey memento of their splashy, mid-life romantic adventure, according to In Touch Weekly. And, as the actor/singer/entrepreneur/influencer holds onto the green diamond, it will go into an impressive engagement-ring collection that is worth an estimated $17 million, according to Blast.
Over Lopez’s career as a serial fiancée, she has been presented with six engagement rings over the course of six engagements and four marriages.
Two of those engagements were with Affleck, while two others involved ex-husband Marc Anthony and ex-fiancé Alex Rodriguez. With each new fiancé and marriage, Lopez also has enjoyed flashing her big, shiny rocks on Hollywood red carpets, during interviews or on social media.
When Lopez revealed that Affleck had proposed marriage for the second time in April 2022, she wrote in her newsletter, On The JLo, “I always say the color green is my lucky color,” E! News reported. Referencing the famous plunging Versace gown she wore to the 2000 Grammys, she added, “Maybe you can remember a certain green dress. I’ve realized there are many moments in my life when amazing things happened when I was wearing green.”
In an interview later that year, Lopez shared the special message engraved inside the band, which was a nod to her and Affleck rekindling their relationship in 2021. The pair first dated and were engaged from 2002 to 2004.
When Affleck popped the question the first time, the actor and director presented Lopez with a pink diamond ring. At the time, Lopez gushed to Diane Sawyer for ABC News that pink diamonds were her favorite gem.
“I was just like ‘Oh God, it can’t be pink on top of it.’ That was just too much for me to handle,” Lopez told Sawyer.
After Lopez showed off her ring to Sawyer, the diamond “transformed the course of jewelry history,” The Adventurine online jewelry magazine reported. In the early 2000s, Lopez’s pink diamond sparked a new fascination with rosy-colored stones.
The unique nature of the pink stone is what made Affleck want to buy it for Lopez, she revealed to Sawyer. “He was like, ‘I just wanted you to have something that nobody else would have,’” Lopez said, adding that the ring is “the most magnificent thing I’ve ever seen.”
It’s not known whether Lopez actually kept the pink diamond. Etiquette dictates that she should have returned it because she and Affleck called off their 2003 wedding and broke up the following year. According to the Emily Post Institute, the polite thing to do is to return an engagement ring, no matter who called off the engagement. An engagement ring is a symbol of the promise to marry. “When the engagement ends, the ring goes back,” the institute said.
But by these guidelines, Lopez would be fully entitled to keep her green-diamond ring from Affleck. Lopez also would have been entitled to keep the engagement rings she received from her three previous husbands.
Lopez married her first husband, waiter-turned-restaurateur Ojani Noa in 1997, but the two divorced less than a year later, E! News reported. He had proposed to her with what appeared to be a pear-shaped diamond ring, worth an estimated six figures.
Her second husband was her back-up dancer Cris Judd, whom she wed in 2001. The two split less than a year later and finalized their divorce in January 2003 — while she was engaged to Ben Affleck. Judd had popped the question with an emerald-cut diamond ring, also worth an estimated six figures, E! News reported.
With movie star Affleck, Lopez could count on a fiancé who would spend a lot more on an engagement ring. The pink, 6.1-carat Harry Winston ring the “Good Will Hunting” star gave her in 2002 was worth between $1.2 and $2.5 million, E! News reported.
Lopez’s fourth engagement ring came from fellow singer Marc Anthony, whom she married in 2004. He spent an estimated $4 million on an 8.5-carat, blue diamond Harry Winston ring, E! News said. Lopez’s marriage to Anthony produced their twins Max and Emme and lasted seven years — her longest known relationship.
Lopez went all out on social media when fiancé No. 5; Alex Rodriguez, popped the question on a beach at sunset on a March 2019 trip to the Bahamas. She posted photos of herself looking surprised when the retired New York Yankees star got down on one knee to present her with a 15-carat, emerald-cut diamond ring, worth between $1 million and $5 million, E! News said.
Lopez and Rodriguez called off their engagement in April 2021, just as reports began to circulate that she had reconnected with Affleck.
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