Ben Affleck has made his move-out official, reportedly taking all of his belongings from the Beverly Hills mansion he previously shared with wife Jennifer Lopez.

The actor, 51, has been staying alone in a Brentwood rental home for the past month, but recently decided to remove all of his items that remained in Beverly Hills.

He’s said to have moved all of his things out of the $60 million mansion before Lopez, 54, returned from her recent trip to Italy, according to People.

“Ben continues to live at the Brentwood rental. He’s been there for about two months now,” one source told the outlet. “He seems OK. He’s been at his office every day and seems focused on work. He’s also spending time with his kids.”

The couple was spotted reuniting Wednesday at an office building where Affleck runs his Artists Equity production company. Though he and Lopez were photographed there at the same time, they arrived and left separately.

It’s unclear why they were both at the location, but Lopez is set to star in two upcoming films produced by the Affleck and Matt Damon-led company.

Rumors that she and Affleck may be headed for a divorce have intensified in recent weeks, after it was revealed that they were working to sell their mansion.

Sources close to the situation told People in May that their marriage“is not in the best place at the moment.” The couple are reportedly are at odds in part over their differing approaches to fame.

On Friday, insiders added Affleck and Lopez are now“focused on their separate lives” and “don’t have any summer plans together.”

The two were originally engaged in the early 2000s before calling off the wedding and breaking up shortly after.

Affleck moved on and started a family with Jennifer Garner, while Lopez did the same with Marc Anthony. Both couples split in the 2010s.

Affleck and Lopez eventually reconciled in 2021 and wed the following year.

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NEW YORK — Eagles singer Don Henley filed a lawsuit in New York on Friday seeking the return of his handwritten notes and song lyrics from the band’s hit “Hotel California” album.

The civil complaint filed in Manhattan federal court comes after prosecutors in March abruptly dropped criminal charges midway through a trial against three collectibles experts accused of scheming to sell the documents.

The Eagles co-founder has maintained the pages were stolen and had vowed to pursue a lawsuit when the criminal case was dropped against rare books dealer Glenn Horowitz, former Rock & Roll Hall of Fame curator Craig Inciardi and rock memorabilia seller Edward Kosinski.

“Hotel California,” released by the Eagles in 1977, is the third-biggest selling album of all time in the U.S.

“These 100 pages of personal lyric sheets belong to Mr. Henley and his family, and he has never authorized defendants or anyone else to peddle them for profit,” Daniel Petrocelli, Henley’s lawyer, said in an emailed statement Friday.

According to the lawsuit, the handwritten pages remain in the custody of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office, which declined to comment Friday on the litigation.

Lawyers for Kosinski and Inciardi dismissed the legal action as baseless, noting the criminal case was dropped after it was determined that Henley misled prosecutors by withholding critical information.

“Don Henley is desperate to rewrite history,” Shawn Crowley, Kosinski’s lawyer, said in an emailed statement. “We look forward to litigating this case and bringing a lawsuit against Henley to hold him accountable for his repeated lies and misuse of the justice system.”

Inciardi’s lawyer, Stacey Richman, said in a separate statement that the lawsuit attempts to “bully” and “perpetuate a false narrative.”

A lawyer for Horowitz, who isn’t named as a defendant as he doesn’t claim ownership of the materials, didn't respond to an email seeking comment.

During the trial, the men's lawyers argued that Henley gave the lyrics pages decades ago to a writer who worked on a never-published Eagles biography and later sold the handwritten sheets to Horowitz. He, in turn, sold them to Inciardi and Kosinski, who started putting some of the pages up for auction in 2012.

The criminal case was abruptly dropped after prosecutors agreed that defense lawyers had essentially been blindsided by 6,000 pages of communications involving Henley and his attorneys and associates.

Prosecutors and the defense said they received the material only after Henley and his lawyers made a last-minute decision to waive their attorney-client privilege shielding legal discussions.

Judge Curtis Farber, who presided over the nonjury trial that opened in late February, said witnesses and their lawyers used attorney-client privilege “

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Usher's acceptance speech of the BET Awards' lifetime achievement award was heartfelt, occasionally profane and lengthy — and few people got to hear it.

The 13-minute speech was largely censored by the network, leaving viewers at home curious to know what Usher said. A BET spokesperson told The Associated Press that “due to an audio malfunction during the live telecast, portions of his speech were inadvertently muted. We extend our sincere apologies to USHER as we couldn’t be more grateful for his participation."

A full version of the speech is now available on BET's YouTube channel, with a few profanities removed. Much of his speech centered on the idea of fatherhood, forgiveness, and his three-decades' long career. It appears that the heavy censoring started shortly after Usher said “Sorry, I'm gonna curse and let you know how I really feel" early on in his acceptance.

He recounted walking into music mogul L.A. Reid's office at 12 or 13 years old and telling a room for of executives that he'd make it. “That wasn't ego speaking. I rebranded that word that day,” he said in a section of the speech that didn't air. “I rebranded that word that day. I expressed goals out loud.”

A rebroadcast of the 2024 BET Awards will air on BET tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern.

From combined wire services