Ben Dumps Jen For Good

[Kalhoun]

P. Diddy was the dump-ee I thought. I thought she dumped all the guys up til now.

And I heard the ring was only worth a paltry mil.

And she gets her money from about 10 different business interests. She has a clothing line, perfume, a restaurant (I think), movies, music, and being a professional famous person. And don’t forget about all her rich friends giving her stuff. Didn’t she just do a photo layout in lingerie? She’s pretty savvy, business-wise, but I still think she’s about as deep as a raindrop.

And ol’ Ben needs to start hanging with a smarter crowd. Matt has it all over Ben. Any day.

[twickster]

*Originally posted by dantheman *
**Who wouldn’t want the ring J.Lo lost? **

raises hand, waving it enthusiastically

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*Originally posted by Kalhoun *
And I heard the ring was only worth a paltry mil.

Hmmm … you’re almost right. According to this webpage for a faux copy of the ring, B-Fleck reportedly paid 1.2 million dollars for the real ring. Other similar webpages repeat the same rumor.

Ben probably paid for it with change he found between his couch cushions.

[Velma]

My first thought was that this was to get the press to lay off enough for the actual wedding, too. We’ll see if they come back in a few months to announce that they actually did get married in a secret ceremony some where.

As for the ‘bad’ publicity, whatever. As long as people are talking about them publicity is publicity. Celebrity relationships are often staged, started, and broken up only to get back together for the sake of keeping their names in the papers.

If they truly did want to get married this is the smartest thing they could do.

OTOH, I wouldn’t be shocked if she is married to someone else next week, either.

[Isabelle]

I wonder if she took out the “till death do us part” out of the vows. I highly doubt that she left in " obey"

Julia Roberts is bigger then J-lo and she got married without a hitch. It is because she didn’t feed and lead the press on like J-lo and Ben.

[dantheman]

Right. Julia Roberts would never do that! She usually shies away from publicity.

[kung_fu_lola]

*Originally posted by Billdo *
**As to the question of who will get the ring, I don’t know whether New York law is applicable, but I definitively know the answer to this question under New York law. I assume that the law of most other U.S. jurisdictions is similar.

Under New York law… <deletia>**

I think it is very sad when laws have to replace manners… as if people these days have to be ordered or compelled to treat one another ethically.

[Gulo_gulo]

Judge Judy would make her give the ring back.

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*Originally posted by Isabelle *
Julia Roberts is bigger then J-lo and she got married without a hitch.

Now there’s a philosophical quandry for you:
How does one get hitched without a hitch?

[Marley23]

And Ben??? He hasn’t been in that many movies to warrant a big salary. I don’t even think he is a good actor. Yet the guy just whips out money left and right.

Ben was in, among others, Armageddon, Good Will Hunting, Dogma, Pearl Harbor, Sum of All Fears, and Daredevil. None of those make him a good actor, but he’s been in a bunch of movies that made money, so his salary keeps going up. (He’ll be paid $15 million for an upcoming movie.)

[Rilchiam]

*Originally posted by Isabelle *
**Julia Roberts is bigger then J-lo and she got married without a hitch. It is because she didn’t feed and lead the press on like J-lo and Ben. **

Boy, the public does have a short memory! Back in '92, she was supposed to marry Keifer Sutherland, but called it off a day or two before the ceremony. I clearly remember Sutherland doing a promo for the SNL episode he hosted shortly afterwards: “Please don’t decide at the last minute you’re not going to watch!”

[Isabelle]

So where has “Jenny From The Block’s” million dollar engagement ring gone? What about the Rolls Royce and the $7 million pleasure palace? Who will get what if the Bennifer assets are divided?

“What’s the most extravagant thing you bought her?” Pat asked Ben during our July interview"I would say the engagement ring. It’s probably a thing that men spend the most money on," said Ben.

At over $1 million, the 25-karat pink diamond was certainly a girl’s best friend. Purchased at Harry Winston, the ring, which Jen was not wearing in Miami, may be a painful reminder of what could have been.

Neil Lane, a Beverly Hills jeweler, said in situations like Ben and Jen’s that a store would consider a refund.

“I think that the policy with most jewelers is that in a short period of time they will take the ring back,” said Lane.

The bigger question may be: Who legally owns this valuable asset? Royal Oaks, a Hollywood attorney, said: “Basically, if the guy calls the wedding off the gal gets to keep the ring, but if she calls it off she has to give it back.”

So that explains what will happen to the ring!

[Count_Blucher]

*Originally posted by friedo *
** Anyway, pink diamonds are ucking fugly. **

I suppose there is some market for it among the pimp-DeVille community.

“Hey, Huggy Bear…! Have I got a ring for you.”

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*Originally posted by Billdo *
Under New York law, a gift of an engagement ring is considered “a gift in contemplation of marriage” that must be returned to the giver in the event the contemplated marriage does not occur. This is so regardless of who may be at “fault” in the break-up.

Originally quoted by Isabelle
Royal Oaks, a Hollywood attorney, said: "Basically, if the guy calls the wedding off the gal gets to keep the ring, but if she calls it off she has to give it back."

Darn it, now I’m confused. Is California law really that much different than New York law in this instance?

[The_Asbestos_Mango]

I’m betting she goes after James Marsters next. Hell, I would…

but then I’d go after James Marsters even if I hadn’t just gotten disengaged from Ben Affleck.

James Marsters is the hottest male celebrity in the known universe at this point (with all due respect to David Duchovny and Brad Pitt). Hell, James Marsters is the hottest male *anything *in the known universe.

'Course, JM has been burned once already, and he’s too smart to hook up with a skanky ho like J-Lo.

Um, who was this thread about again?

[The_Wrong_Girl]

Well, now a KISS-FM affiliate in Savannah is reporting that Bennifer got married either yesterday or early today.

Ha! They sure tricked us.

[Sam_Stone]

Sam Stone’s Rule of Thumb: If your bride comes with her own ‘entourage’, your wedding might be in trouble.

The only thing bigger than J-lo’s diamond is her rapacious ego.

[Evil_Death]

*Originally posted by The Wrong Girl *
**Well, now a KISS-FM affiliate in Savannah is reporting that Bennifer got married either yesterday or early today.

Ha! They sure tricked us. **

Meanwhile, IMDb is reporting that J-Ho is Pee-O’d because she’s still having to pay $3.2m for the wedding, with quotes and all.

Put not thy trust in vague reports from shitty radio stations, my daughter/son posing as a daughter.

[twickster]

Word on the street (!?!?!?!?) is that they spent the weekend together in Georgia, with Ben looking miserable and J-Lo looking pissed. (How exactly these expressions differ from those of their happy lovebirds period, I’m not sure.)

You know, I say I’m sick to death of them – yet here I am, a’readin’ and a-postin’.