Montreal Gazette

Affleck offers up his bachelor pad

- Bang Showbiz

Ben Affleck’s house is for sale for $30 million. The Tender Bar actor is rumoured to have recently bought a mansion in Beverly Hills with new wife Jennifer Lopez, so it won’t likely surprise fans to learn he has put his seven-bedroom Pacific Palisades abode on the market.

Affleck first bought the lavish property — which was dubbed an “entertaine­r’s dream” by Realtor. com — for $19.2 million in 2018 in a bid to be close to ex-wife Jennifer Garner and their three children, Violet, 16, Seraphina, 13, and 10-year-old Samuel.

The house has nine bathrooms, a gym, a screening room, a spa, a spacious living room with a fireplace, a formal dining room — complete with butler’s pantry — and a study.

The lavish abode also features a maid’s room, a temperatur­e-controlled walk-in wine cellar and a family room with a full bar.

Moving trucks were recently seen outside the house, at the same time as furniture and other items were being moved out of Lopez’s home, fuelling speculatio­n about their new joint purchase.

The couple — who married in a low-key ceremony in Las Vegas last month — are believed to have bought their new house from Australian billionair­e James Packer, who paid around $60 million for it in 2018.

The house wasn’t up for sale when Affleck and Lopez — who has 14-year-old twins Max and Emme with ex-husband Marc Anthony — reportedly snapped up the 29,000-square-foot property, with TMZ reporting it hadn’t even been shown to anyone else.

The sprawling estate boasts a movie theatre, a hair salon, a gym, an entertainm­ent room, a wine cellar and a pool, as well as multiple guest houses for visitors.

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