Ben Affleck would prefer if he could take a Dad-nap on the Seine in peace, thank you very much. During his recent Paris honeymoon with Jennifer Lopez, whom he married in an intimate surprise Las Vegas ceremony on July 16, the actor was reportedly “freaked out” by the swarm of paparazzi that followed him and Lopez around the City of Lights from the Louvre to the Musée d’Orsay to the Élysée Palace gardens to, famously, Sephora.
A source told Page Six the attention in France over the newlyweds was “almost Princess Diana-level,” a startling choice of words given the late princess’s final moments during her own Paris trip almost 25 years ago. “Ben was a little freaked out in Paris,” the source said. “This was a whole new level.”
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Affleck’s concern is not without merit; the heightened attention around Bennifer 2.0 is hauntingly reminiscent of the pair’s first attempt at marriage. When the couple dated (and got engaged) in the early 2000s, they both cited unrelenting paparazzi as a major contributor to their eventual split in 2004. After setting their initial wedding date in Santa Barbara, California, for September 14, 2003, they postponed the event due to the fear of tabloid exposure.
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