J.Lo: DESPERATE TO STAY CLOSE TO BEN!

AMID HER MARITAL WOES, JENNIFER LOPEZ CENTERS HER BLENDED BROOD IN A LAST-DITCH EFFORT TO PROVE TO BEN AFFLECK THAT THEIR RELATIONSHIP IS WORTH SAVING.

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AFTER not being photographed together for 47 days, Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck were finally spotted both attending an event for their kids on May 16. On May 30, the Oscar winner, 51, and the 54-year-old Atlas star were again reunited at his daughter Violet Affleck’s high school graduation (the 18-year-old’s mom, Jennifer Garner, was also in attendance). Then, as reports of trouble in their marriage escalated, the Gigli costars, who reignited their romance 20 years after their first split and wed in 2022, managed an awkward air-kiss outside his 12-year-old son Samuel’s basketball game June 2. “It’s a good sign they were at the game together,” a source told one news outlet.

And a good strategy. An insider tells Star that J.Lo, willing to do anything to save Bennifer 2.0 — her fourth, “fairy tale” marriage — is putting their kids front and center as a way of staying close to Ben. (He also shares Fin, 15, with Jen Garner while she has 16-year-old twins Max and Emme with ex