Lopez, Rodriguez close in on marriage
Jennifer Lopez soldiered on last week with her plans to marry Alex Rodriguez, even though their relationship had hit such “a rough patch” that people close to them announced to the media they had broken up — reports the couple subsequently denied.
As of last week, the apparently hopeful superstar singer kept appointments to have fittings for her wedding dress, even though her two-year engagement to the former New York Yankees slugger had been “on the rocks” for some time, an insider told Page Six Monday. “There were issues between them, but she was still sitting for fittings for (her wedding) dress last week,” the insider said.
Lopez, 51, and Rodriguez, 45, who got engaged in March 2019, have twice called off their wedding, reportedly due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Last Friday, multiple sources told a number of news outlets that they had split amid his latest cheating scandal — this time as speculation arose that he had an affair with reality TV star Madison
LeCroy of “Southern Charm,” People reported.
But on Saturday, the couple issued a statement to People and other outlets saying that they are staying together. “We are working through some things,” the couple said in a joint statement.
On Monday, Rodriguez flew to see Lopez in the Dominican Republic, where she is working on a new movie, the Daily Mail reported. On his Instagram stories, he shared a clip of the view from his balcony in the Caribbean and captioned it: “Happy Monday. New week. New day. Onward. Upward.”
He tagged Lopez in the post. A source close to the couple told People over the weekend: “They never officially broke up and talked about it but are still together. They hit a rough patch, but were not broken up.”
The source added that the speculation surrounding LeCroy “had no bearing on the rough patch at all.” A second insider insisted to People that the tensions in the relationship were “not caused by a third party. Madison (LeCroy) or anyone else. They are working through things.”