Ben Affleck has actually been solitary a Hollywood min in the middle of his split from Jennifer Lopez, yet reports are currently flying regarding his lovemaking. The Oscar-winning star has actually been identified around Los Angeles with Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy, the child of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., according to numerous records.
Media electrical outlets appear torn on what precisely is happening with Affleck, 52, and Kennedy, 36. Are they dating? Have they also fulfilled? Right here’s what we understand.
Exactly how the Affleck-Kennedy reports unravelled
Web Page 6 broke the news on Aug. 24– 4 days after Lopez applied for separation– that both had actually been identified at the Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Resort “and various other hotspots” around L.A. The information made headings eventually after RFK Jr. suspended his quote for the White Home.
On Aug. 26, Individuals reported conflicting information, with numerous resources declaring both have actually hung out with each other. “I’m unsure what’s occurring,” one expert claimed, including: “Kick’s celebrity crush has actually constantly been Ben.”
A different resource urged “there’s certainly absolutely nothing taking place,” clarifying, “I do not believe they also understand each various other.”
In one more write-up, People cited multiple sources that declare Affleck and Kennedy “are being familiar with each other,” with a single person declaring both are “in the exact same scene.” They have actually supposedly hung out with each other considering that June. (Lopez noted her and Affleck’s day of splitting up as April 26.)
TMZ participated the activity and landed somewhere in the middle: While both have actually been identified around community with each other, they are not dating and are not a pair. This is what a resource informs Yahoo Enjoyment too.
On Tuesday, Affleck’s representative rejected dating records to Yahoo and claimed the “reports are not real.” Kennedy’s representative did not reply to Yahoo’s ask for remark.
That is Kick Kennedy?
Among RFK Jr.’s 6 kids, Kennedy knows with the show business. She showed up in an episode of The Newsroom and one episode of Suppress Your Interest ( which stepmother Cheryl Hines starred in).
In a 2012 meeting with Town & Country, Kennedy claimed she has no rate of interest in popularity regardless of attempting to get into Hollywood.
” I was birthed with a sticker label– a name– that has actually made me entirely unenthusiastic in the popularity variable of success,” she claimed. “I see all my star close friends truly going all out because method due to the fact that it’s such a huge component of the task, yet it type of turns me off. I’m scared of it, or a minimum of unenthusiastic, unamused.”
Provided Affleck’s fondness for personal privacy– something that supposedly triggered rubbing in his marital relationship to Lopez– that would certainly appear to be a plus for a brand-new associate.
” Individuals ask me, ‘What’s it like to be a Kennedy?'” Kick claimed in the meeting. “Perhaps it’s simply the temperature level of the water, yet I’m similar to, ‘I have no concept.’ When I see my face or name in the papers, I obtain a knot in my tummy. It’s simply not me– it reads something that’s unreal.”
Kennedy inevitably changed her emphasis from acting to philanthropy. She’s enthusiastic regarding pets and the setting, according to a 2014 Resident interview She treked Mount Kilimanjaro with stars Jessica Biel and Emile Hirsch to aid increase water lack understanding.
Lopez and Affleck still quiet on split
Neither celebrity has actually openly talked about the separation considering that the Atlas celebrity applied for separation one week earlier– yet lots of individuals carry their part.
Affleck’s affirmed “state of mind swings” and mindset are claimed to have actually added to their split. Numerous resources inform Yahoo that it inevitably boiled down to exactly how they are 2 various individuals.
” She attempted truly difficult to make points function,” a resource informed Individuals. Nevertheless, Affleck had not been providing her “any type of indications that he wishes to proceed their marital relationship,” a Lopez expert included. “It specified that she simply requires to watch out for herself.”