"It could all be a ruse intended to distract attention from the real wedding," said Barry Levine of the National Enquirer tabloid newspaper, who is co-ordinating coverage of the "Bennifer" wedding plans in Santa Barbara.
2003 — Gary Susman, "Jenny From the Block", Entertainment Weekly, 28 October 2003:
Although her Gigli costar stood off to the side and said nothing, Bennifer observers noted that Lopez was once again wearing the $1.2 million pink diamond engagement ring Affleck gave her.
2004 — George Rush, "Bennifer Rock Solid", New York Daily News, 17 January 2004:
As we reported yesterday, Bennifer had dinner at a fancy Miami restaurant - and touched off new rumors the wedding was off when she was spotted without her 6-carat pink sparkler.
Ben Affleck […] plays Ollie Trinkle. His wife is played by Jennifer Lopez, whose bit part was made even smaller when Smith scrapped a wedding scene with the couple after Bennifer became no more.
"Whereas Bennifer was out in their Bentley making out, Brad and Jen seemed like people you could actually be friends with," said Schaefer, explaining Us Weekly's soup-to-nuts coverage of the couple. "They seem like the type of people you could grab a beer with."
These days, you see her at the Oscars or her movie premieres, but the once-glitzy and ubiquitous half of the Bennifer circus is largely out of the public eye.
Following media saturation of "Bennifer" - Jennifer and fiance Ben Affleck - the couple's movie "Gigli" (2003) was a critical and commercial dud, becoming the first movie to sweep all six major categories of the Razzie Awards.
