A few years later, her parents had saved up enough money to be able to purchase a two-story house, which was considered a big deal for the relatively poor family. At the age of five, Lopez began taking singing and dancing lessons. She toured New York with her school when she was seven years old.
Her parents stressed the importance of work ethic and being able to speak English. They encouraged their three daughters to put on performances at home; singing and dancing in front of each other and their friends so that they would stay "out of trouble". Lopez spent her entire academic career in Catholic schools, finishing at Preston High School. In school, Lopez did gymnastics, ran track on a national level and was a member of the school's softball team. She excelled athletically rather than academically, competing in national track championships.
In 1984, at the age of fifteen, she began dating David Cruz, her first boyfriend.
While working on her first album On the 6, Lopez began dating record producer and rapper Sean Combs. On December 27, 1999, the couple were arrested along with two others in connection with a shooting outside the Times Square Club in New York. They were charged with criminal possession of a weapon as well as stolen property. Lopez was soon exonerated, having had nothing to do with the crime. However, Combs was charged and indicted by a Manhattan grand jury. After leaving Combs, Lopez developed a relationship with former back-up dancer Cris Judd, whom she was married to from September 29, 2001 to June 2002.
Following her second divorce, she commenced a high-profile relationship with actor and director Ben Affleck, whom she became engaged to in November 2002. The couple postponed their nuptials indefinitely a day prior to the planned ceremony in September 2003, citing the media's interference with the event as the reason.
Lopez gave birth to a son, Maximilian David and a daughter, Emme Maribel, in Long Island, New York on February 22, 2008. The twins were introduced in the March 11, 2008 issue of People, for which the magazine paid a reported $6 million — the photographs of the twins became the most expensive celebrity picture ever taken at the time. Three years later in July 2011, the couple announced their split, with Anthony filing for divorce in April 2012. The divorce was finalized in June 2014. From October 2011 to June 2014, Lopez dated her former back-up dancer Casper Smart.
Salary:
My Family (1995) $50 000
Money Train (1995) $200 000
Jack (1996) $200 000
Blood and Wine (1996) $250 000
Selena (1997) $1 000 000
Anaconda (1997) $1 000 000
U Turn (1997) $1 000 000
Out of Sight (1998) $2 000 000
Antz (1998) $500 000
The Cell (2000) $4 000 000
The Wedding Planner (2001) $9 000 000
Angel Eyes (2001) $9 000 000
Enough (2002) $10 000 000
Maid in Manhattan (2002) $12 000 000
Gigli (2003) $12 000 000
Jersey Girl (2004) $4 000 000
Shall We Dance (2004) $15 000 000
Shall We Dance (2004) $14 000 000
Monster-in-Law (2005) $15 000 000
An Unfinished Life (2005) $4 000 000
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