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Jennifer Lopez and her husband, Marc Anthony, have split up after seven years of marriage.
The couple, who are parents to three-year-old twins Max and Emme, made the shock announcement in a joint statement yesterday.
“We have decided to end our marriage” – they said. “This was a very difficult decision. We have come to an amicable conclusion on all matters. It is a painful time for all involved and we appreciate the respect of our privacy at this time.”
The news came as a shock to many as Lopez, 41, and Anthony, 42, with three failed marriages between them, seemed to have been the perfect match having toured together and made a movie “El Cantante” together and were recently in talks about making a music-based reality TV show.
The high profile couple seemed inseparable – Lopez even danced in the background for her crooner husband when he performed on American Idol, where she debuted as a judge this past season.
The couple married in 2004 having been friends for some time. Lopez had been married twice before and Anthony had been married to former Miss Universe, Dayanara Torres.
They were last pictured together at the unveiling of her Boy’s and Girl’s Club billboard in Times Square in New York on June 10.

Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony.

It was a surprising split for one of Hollywood’s most high-profile couples. They seemed inseparable – Lopez even danced in the background for her crooner husband when he performed on ‘American Idol,’ where she debuted as a judge this past season.
The pair, both of Puerto Rican heritage, knew each other for years before the 2004 wedding. He was ending a marriage to former Miss Universe Dayanara Torres, while she had recently endured a high-profile breakup with Ben Affleck.
Lopez had been married twice before in brief unions to Ojani Noa and Chris Judd and had a famous romance with Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs.
Her union with Anthony was her most enduring public relationship. The pair did a joint tour together and starred in the movie ‘El Cantante’ in 2006.
They also had two children, twins Emme and Max. They were Lopez’s first children; Anthony had a child from Torres and another from a previous relationship.
In April, the pair (both 42) announced plans for a television show together, “Q’Viva! The Chosen,” with Simon Fuller, the creator of ‘Idol.’ The show was to feature the superstar couple as they traveled the world to find the best performers in Latin music, dance and other arts with the goal of creating a live extravaganza.
The show had no airdate, and it’s unclear if it will continue.
Lopez released her latest album, titled ‘Love?’ this year. Her career, which lulled in recent years, has surged since she became an ‘Idol’ judge.

Crooner Anthony (42) was conspicuously absent at Saturday’s star-packed BAFTA Brits to Watch bash in L.A., where wife Lopez (40) met Prince William and Duchess Kate with mom Guadalupe as her date.
Friends for years, Lopez and Anthony dated briefly in the 1990′s. They stepped out again as a couple in early 2004, shortly after Lopez’s broken engagement from Ben Affleck, and in the midst of Anthony’s divorce from first wife, former Miss Universe Dayanara Torres. They wed at a quiet home wedding in June 2004.
Just last year, they renewed their wedding vows for their sixth anniversary at their Hidden Hills, Calif. estate June 5. “We realized the bets in Vegas [on whether we'd make it] stopped at five years” – Anthony joked to Us at the time. (The duo also renewed their vows in 2008, and playfully dirty-danced together at Us Weekly’s Hot Hollywood bash in April 2010.)
And as recently as January, singer, actress and American Idol judge Lopez gushed on the Ellen DeGeneres Show about being a parent with Anthony. “As soon as I had the babies, I thought to myself, ‘I want to do this a thousand more times…I love this. This is life.”
Anthony and first wife Torres share sons Cristin (10) and Ryan (7). Lopez – who famously dated Sean Combs in addition to Affleck – had been married twice before: to restauranteur Ojani Noa (they split in 1998) and former backup dancer Cris Judd, to whom she was married from 2001 to 2003.