Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez SPLIT after postponing their wedding twice with the singer ’embarrassed over his friendship with reality star Madison LeCroy
Insiders revealed the singer, 51, and former Yankees player, 45, ended their two-year engagement on Friday morning after suffering extensive issues for some time.
Page Six report Rodriguez’s alleged ‘friendship’ with reality star Madison LeCroy, 30, was a factor in the split while other sources close to the couple said the break-up was ‘a long time coming’.
The couple, who became engaged in March 2019, began dating in 2017 with Jennifer’s twins Emme and Max, 13, who she shares with ex Marc Anthony, growing close to Rodriguez’s two daughters, Natasha, 14, and ten-year-old Ella, whom he shares with ex-wife Cynthia Rodriguez.
The power couple were last pictured looking happy in late February during a getaway in Dominican Republic while the superstar filmed her latest movie, Shotgun Wedding, with Josh Duhamel.
According to TMZ, Jennifer and Rodriguez are said to have called time on their romance on Friday morning, while People reported that the split had been a ‘long time coming’.
Elsewhere, a source told UsWeekly over the alleged split: ‘The last time they had seen each other was March 1. They haven’t seen each other since then. There have been issues in their relationship for a while now.’
Blended family: The duo first began dating in 2017 with Jennifer’s twins Emme and Max, 13, who she shares with ex Marc Anthony, growing close to Rodriguez’s two daughters, Natasha, 14, and ten-year-old Ella, whom he shares with ex-wife Cynthia Rodriguez (pictured in happier times)
Dailymail.com contacted both Jennifer and Rodriguez’s representatives for comment but are yet to hear back.
Rodriguez appeared to brush off the reports as he shared a picture of himself alone on a yacht in Miami on Friday, which he captioned: ‘Don’t mind me, just taking a sail-fie… What are your plans for the weekend?’
The sporting star is said to be getting ready for baseball season while Jennifer has thrown herself into filming her latest movie in the Dominican Republic.
After news of their reported split emerged, a source told People: ‘They have been on the rocks for almost three months now. They’ve been trying to keep it together for the kids but everyone knew it wasn’t going to work.
‘They were going to buy a mega-mansion together and then that didn’t happen, once they backed out of the deal all their friends down here [in Miami] knew.’
Jennifer has previously been married three times and has had a series of high-profile romances over the years including the likes of Sean ‘Puff Daddy’ Combs, Ben Affleck and Marc Anthony.
Later on Friday, Page Six later alleged that Jennifer and Rodriguez split over his alleged friendship with Southern Charm star Madison.
A source told the publication: ‘The Madison LeCroy scandal was the reason they finally broke up. There were already problems, but Jennifer was really embarrassed by it.’
In February, there appeared to be issues with the power couple after Madison claimed she spoke with Rodriguez over the phone.
The explosive allegations had originally occurred during a recent Southern Charm reunion, where Madison claimed she had been in contact with a married and ex-MLB player. The name had been bleeped out.
During the episode, Madison was also accused of sleeping with the unidentified sports star but she denied ever seeing the man in person, although she did admit to DM-ing him.
Suspicions arose that the person could have been Rodriguez, despite him not being married and only engaged at the time to Jennifer.
Later, Madison revealed in an interview with Page Six she had been in ‘innocent’ communication with Rodriguez but that they had ‘never met up’ and only ‘spoken on the phone’.
‘That’s the truth,’ the reality star claimed, clarifying they had ‘never been physical… never had any kind of anything. Just an acquaintance.’
Madison LeCroy, 30, is best known for starring on the Bravo reality show Southern Charm, which follows several Charleston socialites as they navigate their lives, career and family reputations.
In February, Madison claimed that she spoke with Jennifer Lopez’s fiancé Alex Rodriguez over the phone but insisted it was ‘innocent’ and that he ‘never physically cheated’ on the superstar.
The explosive allegations had originally occurred during a recent Southern Charm reunion, where Madison claimed she had been in contact with a married and ex-MLB player. The name had been bleeped out.
During the episode, Madison was also accused of sleeping with the unidentified sports star but she denied ever seeing the man in person, although she did admit to DM-ing him.
Suspicions arose that the person could have been Rodriguez, despite him not being married and only engaged at the time to Jennifer.
Later, Madison revealed she had been in ‘innocent’ communication with Rodriguez but that they had ‘never met up’ and only ‘spoken on the phone’.
However, a source told DailyMail.com at the time: ‘Alex has never met or spoken to Madison or anyone from the show.’
DailyMail.com contacted respective representatives for both Rodriguez and LeCroy at the time, who did not respond to comment.
The reality star is a single mother to her son Hudson, eight, who she shares with ex-husband Josh Hughes. They split in late 2015.
Madison has since been linked to co-star Austen Kroll and Kristin Cavallari’s ex Jay Cutler.
Madison also insisted that Rodriguez had ‘never physically cheated’ on Jennifer with her and that their phone calls had been ‘inconsistent’ and ‘random’. The reality star would not reveal what was discussed.
The Southern Charm star’s co-star Shep Rose, who spoke to UsWeekly on Friday, has since claimed ‘there was an NDA signed’, suggesting some damage control may have been done following their alleged communication.
The allegations originally occurred during a recent Southern Charm reunion, where the name of the individual Madison was allegedly in contact with had been bleeped out.
The reality star claimed that the name concealed was Rodriguez’s, but she was the one who requested his name withheld.
‘I have tried to be as quiet as possible. I don’t want anything bad for his family, or for mine. We are definitely innocent in this,’ she insisted. Madison would also not reveal when the alleged phone calls occurred.
Explosive: The explosive allegations had originally occurred during a recent Southern Charm reunion where Madison, pictured, was accused of sleeping with an unidentified sports star to which she denied ever seeing the man in person, although she did admit to DM-ing him
Rumors spread within her inner circle because she ‘told the wrong person’ about who she had been in contact with. ‘All this stuff was a year ago [but] it’s being aired now,’ she explained.
However, a source with knowledge of the situation previously told DailyMail.com: ‘Alex has never met or spoken to Madison or anyone from the show.’
During the Southern Charm episode, Madison was accused of sleeping with an unidentified, married ex-MLB player. The reality star denied ever seeing the man in person, although did admit to DM-ing him.
Madison was accused of getting intimate with a married former athlete. However, Rodriguez is not married, and has been engaged since 2019.
The identity of the individual was concealed, but Southern Charm star Danni Baird subsequently alleged on the Reality Life with Kate Casey that the person was Rodriguez.
DailyMail.com contacted Rodriguez and Madison’s representatives at the time, who did not respond to comment.
‘She had even told me that they were FaceTiming or something,’ Baird said on the show.
Meanwhile, a source for the New York Post also insisted Rodriguez did not know or hook up with Madison.
‘He doesn’t know this woman,’ the insider said. ‘Look, does this mean he didn’t DM her and liked a photo or two? I guess not, but he doesn’t know her — and he definitely didn’t hook up with her.’
However, eagle-eyed fans noticed at the time that Rodriguez had allegedly ‘liked’ several of Madison’s photos – only to unlike them.
One of the photos was a snap taken of Madison at the beach in July, and another was of her with her friends on New Year’s Eve.
The former MLB allegations came to light during the recent Southern Charm reunion, where Craig Conover claimed LeCroy had flown to Miami to be with a married man.
‘You were flying around the country sleeping with married men, an ex MLB player! You flew to Miami to (expletive) an ex MLB player!’ Craig alleged.
Madison was adamant she had never seen the athlete in person and shot back with: ‘Put me on a lie detector test. I never flew to Miami. Tell me when I went to Miami. Where’s the record of that? That’s fake!’
The reported split comes after Jennifer’s last cryptic Instagram post was of several throwback clips where she asked people to smile.
Jennifer and Rodriguez announced their engagement in March 2019 on the beach in the Bahamas after he surprised her with a large diamond ring. The duo began dating in 2017 after first meeting a decade prior when she was married to Marc Anthony.
Jennifer and Rodriguez – who called each other Macha and Macho, respectively – had delayed their wedding twice citing it was due to lockdown from COVID-19.
She said last year: ‘We had to cancel the wedding … because of COVID, because of the quarantine. And we actually did it twice, which people don’t know.’
The Maid In Manhattan star told Allure magazine: ‘It was a big deal. We had been planning for months and months and months, and it was overseas. Maybe it wasn’t the right time.’
The Hustlers actress also said that she was worried that she and Alex won’t be able to ‘re-create’ their dream wedding after they were forced to put their plans on hold due to the pandemic.
She admitted: ‘We postponed the wedding twice. We had planned what we really, really wanted to do, [but] I don’t know if we’ll be able to re-create that. We cancelled it, and since then we haven’t really talked about it. There’s no rush.
‘We want to do it right when we can do it. We just have to wait to see where the world lands … Oh yeah, we’ve talked about [not getting married] for sure.
‘I mean at our age, we’ve both been married before, it’s like, do we get married? Do we not? What does it mean for us? And it’s just, it comes down to like personal, like, what do you want to do?’
The two have been living together for the past four years as they co-parent her twins Max and Emme and his daughters Natasha, 14, and ten-year-old Ella, whom he shares with ex-wife Cynthia Rodriguez.
Jennifer was imperviously wed to Ojani Noa from 1997 until 1998. She was then married to dancer Chris Judd from 2001 until 2003.
The star’s marriage to singer Marc Anthony lasted for 10 years, from 2004 until 2014. She previously dated Sean ‘Puff Daddy’ Combs in the late 90s while she was engaged to Ben Affleck in 2002.
