Jennifer López: her fortune of almost 400 million guarantees that she is the queen
Her career, and her life by extension, has been a sum of high points. Now, in her 50s, Jennifer López lives installed in another, visible in an awards season for her role in Hustlers, hired to perform with Shakira at the Super Bowl break and growing her fortune at a good pace from the hand of her future husband, businessman and former baseball player Alex Rodríguez. She is the umpteenth positive streak of a star that seems not to go out.
She began to make a splash in 1993, signing with CBS for a television series, Second Chances, and since then she has continued to climb the ranks to become the most influential Latina of all time in the entertainment industry. She was the first Hispanic actress to earn more than a million dollars for a movie (Serena), the first to reach number one in the same week with an album (J.Lo) and a movie (Wedding Plans) and the owner of the record for most tickets sold at a concert in Las Vegas, beating Britney Spears.
Daughter of Puerto Ricans, López today controls a fortune of around 360 million euros and has, for the first time, an Oscar nomination as a Supporting Actress. Her role as Ramona Vega, inspired by a stripper who threw brutal parties and then fleeced wealthy Wall Street clients, has already earned her a Golden Globe nomination, more than two decades after Selena's. (1997). And she hopes to go one step further with the Oscars. "I hope so", she was limited to saying before that possibility, in an interview on CBS Sunday Morning last week.
With Hustlers she claims to have reached a degree of maturity that she did not have before the cameras. "I acted without fear, without stopping in the middle of a take," she explained. She could not calculate that she would be "in the best moment of my life" at 50 years old. "I find myself growing and improving every year and that is exciting."
She, sentimentally, is also clear about it. She is engaged to A-Rod, the former New York Yankees baseball player, and no apparent trauma from his past. In the same interview with CBS, she candidly recalled the times of complicated relationships, first with Puff Daddy and then with actor Ben Affleck, whom she met on the set of Gigli, one of the biggest box office hits in the history of the game. movie theater.
"The era of Puffy [Puff Daddy] was a bit of a crazy time in my life," she recalled. "Puffy and I grew up in the Bronx. He had been in the music business for a long time and had been very successful. I was just starting out, working on my first album, when I met him. He became a kind of mentor. We had this kind of mentor. crazy and tumultuous relationship that ended in explosion ".
As for Affleck, Lopez recalls how they became the first supercouple for the tabloid press. And how the wear and tear due to the permanent harassment of that tabloid current ended up costing the relationship. "Ben, believe it or not, he wanted to keep quiet and not be in the tabloids. It was the start of the tabloid era and we were exposed there. We were in the magazines every week. It was scary. It outgrew us both."
After Affleck, López went down the aisle again in 2004, with Marc Anthony. They had twins and divorced in 2014, although they maintain a close and friendly relationship.
If nothing goes wrong, her fourth husband will be Rodríguez, another great power in the US Latino community. After amassing a fortune as a New York baseball idol - she signed the most lucrative contract in the history of the sport with the Yankees at $ 275 million for 10 years - she turned to her business and investment side.
Not only has she managed to take them to the next level, but she exposes her brand through two television shows each week, both on the economics channel CNBC, Shark Tank and Back in the Game. In the second he is the undisputed star, turned advisor to financially ruined former athletes whom he helps recover.
In total, A-Rod heads a corporation that employs more than 500 people with investments in real estate, sports, entertainment and service businesses. Forbes calculates a fortune of 540 million euros, 412 of which he entered while active as a professional athlete.
Together they constitute a great power with many points in common to be successful in a marriage. The first two were fleeting for J.Lo and with the third, Marc Anthony's, he lasted 10 years. "Having such an understanding and loving partner is something that goes beyond my biggest dreams. He really loves what I do and always tries to push me," said the actress about her future husband.
