Raymond Cruz, who played the Mexican drug kingpin Tuco Salamanca on Breaking Bad, was arrested on Monday (September 8) after allegedly spraying water at three women in a minivan outside of his home.
As first reported by TMZ, the incident occurred on Monday morning at approximately 10:40 am in the Silver Lake area of Los Angeles. According to Cruz’s talent agent, Raphael Berko, the actor was reportedly cleaning his car outside his home when a minivan with three women pulled up “a half an inch” from his bumper.
“There was basically a dispute with the victim, which is when Cruz allegedly sprayed water towards the victim,” LAPD officer David Cuellar told People.
In a statement, Berko said that Cruz asked the women to move their vehicle, warning them that it would get wet. The women allegedly refused and started filming the Major Crimes star.
“When he turned around to tell them to stop filming him, he was still hosing his car. And some of the water from his hose hit the front of his car and spilled on their car,” Berko stated. “And then believe it or not, one of them called the police.”
Berko added that Cruz has “never been arrested in his life,” noting, “Someone who played a police detective for 15 years on The Closer and Major Crimes, someone who lives in that neighborhood, was put in handcuffs and taken to jail.”
Cruz was arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor battery and taken to jail, though he was later released from custody and is due back in court on October 1. As of writing, no charges have been filed against him.
“Raymond’s very grateful to all of the LAPD personnel at the police department because throughout the five hours of him being in their jail, the LAPD were all very, very gracious and nice to him and reassuring,” Berko added.
In addition to his role as drug lord Tuco Salamanca in Breaking Bad and its prequel series Better Call Saul, Cruz played LAPD detective Julio Sanchez on the police procedural The Closer and its spinoff Major Crimes. More recently, he appeared in episodes of Mayans M.C. and Grey’s Anatomy, as well as the dramedy film Love, Danielle.
SMITH RIVER, Calif. — There’s a pretty little cemetery in California’s foggy northwest corner, where the moss-covered headstones date back to the 1860s.
Every time Karen Betlejewski visits the Smith River Community Pioneer Cemetery, she places silk flowers beside a simple granite headstone in the northeast corner. It belongs to a man she never met.
DOCK RIGG 1850 — 1919, it reads.
At the time of his death, he was said to be the only Chinese person formally allowed to live in rural Del Norte County — three decades after white residents there and in neighboring Humboldt County had forced out their Chinese neighbors in a series of violent purges.
They called him Dock Rigg — the surname of his employer — but government papers say his name was Oo Dock. He worked as a cook and ranch hand for two prominent families in the Smith River Valley who arranged for him to work on a ranch just over the Oregon line until the racist fervor calmed enough for him to quietly return.
Dock’s flower-adorned grave in this town of 1,200 people stands as a humble monument to the quiet, extraordinary life of a man who persevered through an ugly — and often-overlooked — time in California history, when Chinese immigrants were banned, Chinatowns were razed, and white mobs beat and murdered Chinese residents.
Like Rigg, a handful of Chinese laborers stayed in Northern California after the purges, living quietly in very rural areas, said Jean Pfaelzer, a historian who sees echoes of the forced removals in today’s roundups and deportations of Latino immigrants by the Trump administration.
The Del Norte County Historical Society Museum in Crescent City, Calif.
(Alexandra Hootnick/For The Times)
“Think of all the parents not sending their children to school right now and people not showing up to work. They’ve been scared to live their full lives,” said Pfaelzer, the author of “Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans.”
“History is smacking us in the face again. The purges of the Chinese people should be on our mind right now during this era of cruel forced deportations of both undocumented and documented migrants and American citizens.”
In the Del Norte County Historical Society Museum, which Betlejewski manages, a thin manila folder contains a handful of documents that detail the few known details about Dock. They describe a man with a good sense of humor who was kind to visiting children and pushed them around in wheelbarrows for fun.
“Dock was a lovable fellow and well known throughout the area for his humor, his good cooking, and his hospitality to the travelers who passed through,” reads one brief first-person account of a woman who knew him in Oregon.
But another document in his file, referencing his return to California, hints at his isolation: “It is reported that he never left the ranch in all the years he worked there.”
One of the few photographs of Dock Rigg is displayed inside the Del Norte County Historical Society Museum in Crescent City.
(Alexandra Hootnick/For The Times)
In 1882 — amid an economic downturn during which non-white migrants were widely blamed for stealing jobs and suppressing wages — the U.S. passed the federal Chinese Exclusion Act, which barred immigration from China.
In the remote towns of rural northwest California, Chinese immigrants toiled in redwood logging camps, laundries and restaurants. They worked as nannies and household servants. Some were former gold prospectors priced out of work because of a predatory state tax on foreign miners.
The purges of Chinese residents here began in earnest in 1885, in the Humboldt County town of Eureka, 100 miles south of Smith River.
That February, a white Eureka city councilman who lived near the local Chinatown, was walking past the neighborhood. Shots rang out, allegedly between two Chinese men, though details are scant. A stray bullet killed the councilman.
An angry mob of more than 600 white people filled the streets, said Pfaelzer. A gallows was erected; an effigy of a Chinese man swung from a noose.
Someone suggested slaughtering the Chinese, but that was deemed un-Christian, Pfaelzer said. Others said they should burn Chinatown, but its scrap-wood buildings belonged to a white man, since Chinese people were not allowed to own property.
The headstone of Dock Rigg in the Smith River Community Pioneer Cemetery in Smith River.
(Alexandra Hootnick/For The Times)
Instead they appointed a committee of 15 men to go into Chinatown and order everyone to leave. The sheriff commissioned wagons to gather their belongings. Armed vigilantes roamed on horseback.
The next morning, some 300 Chinese people were marched to the wharf and loaded onto steamships. They were shipped to San Francisco, where no one knew they were coming, Pfaelzer said. They disembarked and fled.
The purge, which became known as the “Eureka method,” was hailed by white people as nonviolent and copied across California — including in Del Norte County, where Dock lived.
In the weeks after the councilman’s death, Crescent City — the Del Norte County seat with a thriving Chinatown — every steamship that left the local port held Chinese residents from the area. Hundreds were forcibly shipped out, according to Pfaelzer.
Like all Chinese residents who arrived in the U.S. before the Chinese Exclusion Act, Dock had to obtain and carry a Certificate of Residence to avoid deportation. Dock’s 1894 certificate, signed by a collector of internal revenue in Portland, Ore., lists his occupation as a cook, and his complexion as “dark.”
Dock, whose birth year engraved on his tombstone is a guess, was a child when he arrived in the U.S. He worked in gold mines throughout California and southern Oregon before landing in Del Norte County.
Here, he worked for cattle ranchers John and Ann Rigg. And for their friend and business partner, Raleigh Scott, who ran a sheep ranch in neighboring Curry County, Oregon, where Dock hid after the purges.
Scott — a county commissioner and state lawmaker in Oregon — inherited the Riggs’ ranch in Smith River after their deaths and moved onto it with his wife, Nettie, and Dock.
Dock died in Scott’s home in 1919. He never married, never had children, and, it is said, rarely, if ever, ventured off his employer’s property.
In recent years, officials in several California cities have acknowledged and apologized for historical wrongs against Chinese people.
In 2021, Antioch and San Jose apologized for burning their Chinatowns in the late 1800s. San Francisco in 2022 apologized for, among other racist acts, barring Chinese children from public schools. And Los Angeles is working on a memorial to commemorate an 1871 massacre in which at least 18 Chinese people were fatally shot or hanged.
The site of the 1871 massacre, at what is now Alameda Street near Union Station in downtown L.A
In Eureka’s Historic Chinatown — which, today, is a downtown business district with banks, parking lots and no trace of the neighborhood that once stood in its place — there are now signs describing the expulsion, as well as a mural and renamed roadway honoring local Chinese American pioneers.
After raising hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants and donations, HAPI hopes to break ground this year on a monument to the dark chapter in Eureka history, said Amy Uyeki, a member of HAPI’s steering committee.
Uyeki said the stories of people who lived through the expulsions, including Dock, are still being unearthed by researchers and volunteers. The individual stories, she said, are powerful — and were too long overlooked.
“Having those names, knowing what they did, that they existed as people, that makes a huge difference,” Uyeki said. “Then they’re not just a group of anonymous people. Personal stories ring true to people. They can imagine themselves as that person.”
While Eureka and other places prepare to unveil higher-profile monuments and dedications, Dock’s headstone stands in quiet remembrance of a life upended by the purges.
Last month, it was adorned with pink and white silk flowers. Betlejewski leaves them when she visits the grave of a late friend, who knew and adored Dock and demanded his photo be displayed in the history museum.
The headstone of Dock Rigg in the Smith River Community Pioneer Cemetery in Smith River.
(Alexandra Hootnick/For The Times)
Dock’s headstone appears to have been placed around 1969, when community members brought in heavy equipment to fix up the old cemetery, which had become overgrown with berry briars, said Carolyn Spencer Westbrook, who co-wrote a book detailing the history of the cemetery and its dead.
A small wooden cross had previously marked Dock’s grave, she said, and was likely damaged during the cleanup. Community members paid for the sturdy stone headstone.
At the time of his death, it was considered a huge sign of respect for Dock to be buried in the Smith River cemetery, where there were no other Chinese people buried, Westbrook said.
Sharon Stone stars in Antonio Marras’ fall-winter 2025 campaign. Photo: Branislav Simoncik / Antonio Marras
Sharon Stone is rewriting the meaning of timeless. In Antonio Marras’ fall-winter 2025 campaign, the Hollywood icon steps into a dreamy storybook world. One set in Alghero, Sardinia, where the sea kisses centuries-old stone walls and fashion becomes poetry.
Antonio Marras Fall/Winter 2025 Campaign
Each look is a love letter to Marras’ roots. A sharp grey checked suit with a dramatic high-neck blouse evokes power and nostalgia all at once. Then, there’s a tapestry-like coat paired with patterned trousers, draped over Stone like wearable architecture.
Another moment finds her in a military-green jacket with sheer floral sleeves, blurring the lines between strength and softness. But the scene-stealer? A soft ivory dress brushed with rose illustrations, caught in a quiet moment by a balcony, the Mediterranean stretching endlessly behind her.
Stone appears seductive, elegant, and always in control in images lensed by Branislav Simoncik. Marras tells a story of place, memory, and identity through fabric. And Sharon? She makes it unforgettable.
European political leaders tried to switch off for a few weeks in August, but they must have had a lot on their minds. Russian forces have advanced in the Donbas, in eastern Ukraine. A summit in Alaska between the Russian and American presidents set off alarm bells in Kyiv and in the EU. And members of European governments are smarting from a trade deal with US President Donald Trump that leaves a 15 percent tariff ceiling on most EU products coming into the US – this as the European Union wants to assert its competitiveness and its strategic weight in the world. We discuss all this and more with our guests.
Abigail Spanberger is the Democrat running for governor in Virginia. She was the leading candidate until about two weeks ago, when Republican Winsome Sears started catching up to her in the polls.
In an effort to boost her candidacy, Spanberger’s campaign has created a fake news website called the Commonwealth Courier, which shares positive news about Spanberger on social media sites.
The media has completely ignored this story, which should surprise no one.
VA Governor Candidate Spanberger Invents ‘News’ Site to Deceive Voters
Abigail Spanberger is the Democratic Party candidate for Governor in Virginia.
Automatically, that makes her suspect.
Pravda and the Democrats have promoted Spanberger as a moderate Democrat, whatever that means these days, although she tends to avoid discussing issues and is distancing herself from her radical voting record. There’s a lot of vague talk–something pretty common in politics, I admit–and lots of promises that utopia is just around the corner.
But to get an idea of what the real Spanberger is like, all you need to know can be summed up by one fact: her campaign has literally invented a fake news site to push the narrative that she is a different kind of Democrat, and that Republicans are the puppy and kitten killing party.
The “news” outlet is the Commonwealth Courier, which is a Facebook page that presents itself as a “Media/News” company. Only it isn’t a company at all. It is, in fact, an artificial creation of the Spanberger for Governor campaign.
The Commonwealth Courier doesn’t exist to get followers–it has very few–and I couldn’t even find a webpage for it. There is a “Commonwealth Couriers,” but they provide courier services, not fake news.
Note the details below:
This is so dirty from @SpanbergerForVA … I thought there was no way they’d actually create a media outlet to front for their propaganda.
A salmonella outbreak has struck down 29 Brits and prompted an urgent warning. The infection originated in cherry tomatoes from Sicily, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
The infections form part of a wider outbreak across Europe and North America. A total of 289 cases have been confirmed since January 2023 in 16 European countries. Italy has seen 78 cases, Germany 68, Austria 59 and France 24.
According to Food Safety News, investigations in 2023 and 2024 identified Sicilian cherry tomatoes as the source of infection.
The ECDC described the outbreak as seasonal, with most cases in summer months.
ECDC said: “The recurrence of cases in 2025, including those without travel history, suggests ongoing transmission and distribution of contaminated produce beyond Italy.
“The presence of cases in multiple countries underscores the need for continued surveillance and cross-sector coordinated response.”
The same organisation said the risk of new infections would remain as long as seasonal delivery of contaminated produce continues.
It said new outbreaks are likely to happen in future seasons until the root cause of the contamination has been identified and control measures brought in.
Any environmental causes should also be investigated to work out the point where Salmonella Strathcona affects the produce, according to a recommendation from the ECDC.
Salmonella infection is caused by bacteria which live in the gut of many birds and animals. Its presence in food can lead to stomach infections in humans, causing diarrhoea which can last several days.
The period between picking up Salmonella and falling ill can be between six hours and three days. It can be longer, but often it is within 12-36 hours, according to NHS Borders.
Symptoms usually include: loose stools, tummy pain, fever, headache, nausea and/or vomiting and general tiredness.
These symptoms usually clear up within three to seven days but a small number of people take weeks to fully recover. Blood poisoning, abscesses and joint pains are rarer complications.
An infected person can contaminate foodstuffs by poor hand hygiene. The commonest route is eating contaminated food or drinks.
These can include unpasteurised milk or eggs and uncooked meats, especially poultry. It has also been found in chocolate, cooked meats, baby milk and salads.
To reduce the risk of Salmonella, wash your hands throughly after changing nappies, handling animals and going to the loo.
You should also wash your hands before cooking, handling food, eating and feeding those who can’t feed themselves.
Food should also be prepared safely and meat thoroughly cooked. Heating food to 70C for at least two minutes destroys Salmonella. You should also avoid raw dairy products and only drink treated water.
Starbucks is renovating, or “uplifting,” as the company is calling it, 1,000 locations by the end of 2026, in an effort to become a “third place” to hang out, per CNBC.
“We’re uplifting more than 1,000 coffeehouses over the next year, blending our global heritage with local relevance to create spaces that are immersive, inclusive, and deeply human,” said Dawn Clark, Starbucks senior vice president of coffeehouse design and concepts, in a statement to CNBC.
A new “uplifted” Starbucks in Union Square, New York City.
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The new spaces have less glare, more outlets, and more comfortable seating. The new designs are meant to “encourage customers to stay longer, connect more, and return often,” Clark added.
Each “uplift,” starting with locations in New York and Southern California, will cost around $150,000, and the stores won’t be shut down during the refresh.
In addition to the revamps and announcing a Pumpkin Spice-led record-breaking sales week, Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol celebrated one month of “Green Apron Service” in a company-wide blog post on Monday.
Niccol said the company has invested $500 million in its Green Apron Service initiatives, which include more hours for employees, larger staff, and new technology in stores. The company’s ambitious goal is to provide the “world’s greatest customer experience,” Niccol says.
The coffee giant is committed to filling 90% of retail leadership roles internally and expanding Assistant Store Manager roles, which has led to “record-low turnover, record-high shift completion, [and] more consistent hours.”
Starbucks Upper East Side, New York
“Partners are telling us it’s making their jobs more focused and more fulfilling,” Niccol said in the post.
Last week, Starbucks also revealed its protein lineup, noting that the company is going “all in” on Protein Cold Foam, according to a press release.
Starbucks is renovating, or “uplifting,” as the company is calling it, 1,000 locations by the end of 2026, in an effort to become a “third place” to hang out, per CNBC.
“We’re uplifting more than 1,000 coffeehouses over the next year, blending our global heritage with local relevance to create spaces that are immersive, inclusive, and deeply human,” said Dawn Clark, Starbucks senior vice president of coffeehouse design and concepts, in a statement to CNBC.
Or as one Trump insider put it: “Beat that little midget’s ass.”
Scott Bessent – President Trump’s usually mild-mannered Treasury secretary – reportedly threatened to punch Pulte, Trump’s Federal House Finance chief, in his “f–ing face”. AP
That’s because Pulte – the 37-year-old former scion of the Pulte single-family homebuilding empire — has gained a reputation inside the West Wing as an annoying, sharp-elbowed publicity hound, sources told On The Money.
Most White House officials, sources tell me, would love nothing more than having Bessent, who is over six feet in height, beat down Pulte, who’s around my height at 5′ 8”.
“The general consensus in the White House is that Scott would have beat that little midget’s ass and everyone would have paid big money to watch it happen,” one person close to the president’s inner circle told me.
Top players in the White House can’t wait for Bessent to get started, On The Money has learned. Getty Images
Ditto in the case of Lisa Cook, the Fed governor who Pulte has accused of mortgage fraud – again very publicly instead of referring what he found to AG Pam Bondi. Bessent has also persuaded Trump not to immediately ditch Powell and let the Fed chair’s term run out so as not to spook the markets.
Most of the executive branch, however, isn’t too keen on Pulte’s antics, nor are the upper echelons of MAGA. Bessent, meanwhile, has won widespread backing for his deft handling of the economy and smooth spinning of Trump trade policies.
The tale of the tape for Scott Bessent vs. Bill Pulte:
NICKNAME
Bessent: The Tariff Sheriff
Pulte: The House Hunter
AGE
TITLE
Bessent: Treasury Secretary
Pulte: Federal Housing Finance Agency Director
COLLEGE
Bessent: Yale University
Pulte: Northwestern University
FAMOUS RELATIVE
Bessent: Abscam Rep. John Jenrette (uncle)
Pulte: Real estate developer William J. Pulte (grandfather)
PREVIOUS OPPONENT
Bessent: Elon Musk
Pulte: Lisa Cook
SPECIAL MOVE
Bessent: The Secondary Sanction
Pulte: The Criminal Referral
Neither Bessent through his rep nor Pulte responded to a request for comment.
Things got heated last week during a dinner at the Executive Branch social club in DC’ attended by MAGA insiders and top Trump officials including Bessent and Pulte. Bessent accused Pulte of trashing him to the president, according to Politico.
Maybe Trump can officiate? After all, Bessent is one of his closest advisers. On the other hand, the president loves Pulte’s recent public attacks on social media against Jerome Powell, joining Trump in calling on the Fed chair to quit. AP
Before dinner was served Bessent got into Pulte’s face, and reportedly snapped: “Why the f— are you talking to the president about me? F— you.” Adding “I’m gonna punch you in your f—ing face,”
Things got so heated that the club’s co-owner, MAGA insider Omeed Malik, had to break things up. According to Politico, Bessent told Pulte, “We could go outside…I’m going to f–ing beat your ass.”
Specifics remain murky, though Pulte is pushing for a privatization of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which Bessent might consider his turf since the Treasury technically controls the mortgage giants currently in conservatorship since the 2008 financial crisis.
Pulte does have his supporters in the White House, including Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, and the person who really matters, President Trump. But that’s about it. The general consensus is that Pulte was always an odd choice to be running the massive Federal House Finance Agency, which oversees the $8 trillion mortgage market.
Bessent has also persuaded Trump not to immediately ditch Fed Chair Powell. Pulte has accused Governor Lisa Cook, right, of mortgage fraud. AFP via Getty Images
He received his college degree in journalism, though he worked for a time in private equity. He had a fraught relationship with the giant home building company founded by his grandfather. The PulteGroup; they parted ways with him in 2020 following a management dispute.
Pulte has engaged in various nasty social media wars in recent years over his advocacy of risky meme stocks, many of which have imploded in value after the mania ended. Indeed, he and I butted heads last year on Fox Business when I asked him about his meme obsession, and whether he “might be getting people into a stock that’s going to crash more.”
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He called the meme stock craze “a movement” of small investors tired of an unlevel playing field in trading stocks and the economy in general. Average investors, he added, are “pissed at these executives who pocket all this money and then drive these companies into the ground … This is not fair to the average American.”
He also got on Trump’s radar with his pocketbook. He and his wife contributed over $1 million to Trump in recent years.
Still, his appointment to the FHFA shocked people inside the administration given his thin resume. He’s leading an administration that aims to privatize Fanne Mae and Freddie Mac. The deal could be one the biggest and most complex transactions ever since Fannie and Freddie are now held by the government and function basically as part of the Treasury Department.
“Trump loved the mortgage fraud stuff,” one MAGA insider told me. But the president “should remove Pulte from FHFA and make him mortgage fraud czar to get him out of the White House.”
The Issue: Various reports on President Trump’s hopes to sort out the New York City mayoral race.
I have to agree with President Trump; two of the candidates should drop out of the race for mayor of New York City (“Stop this guy or I will,” Sept. 5).
However, contradicting Trump’s idea, I believe former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa should drop out and support Mayor Adams. If it’s Adams versus Zohran Mamdani, Adams will prevail based on his accomplishments and supporters.
T. Bove
Staten Island
President Trump is not doing New Yorkers any favors by suggesting the corrupt Andrew Cuomo should be mayor. As mayor, Cuomo, like Mamdani, would be every cop’s nightmare.
As New York’s governor, Cuomo made it known that he has no love for law enforcement by calling ICE agents “a bunch of thugs.” Locally, he tied the hands of police by eliminating qualified immunity and by blessing radical changes to our legal system.
New Yorkers, take note: Curtis Sliwa has let it be known that no one can buy him. It would be a breath of fresh air to have someone like that in office.
Nicholas Maffei
Yonkers
Curtis Sliwa has finally come to the forefront. I don’t understand why President Trump won’t endorse and encourage his candidacy for mayor of New York City.
Curtis has New York in his blood; he was born in Brooklyn and has protected this city with fellow Guardian Angels for decades. We need protection, law enforcement, clean streets — shall I go on?
Trump and Sliwa have New York’s best interest at heart. Trump originates from Queens and Sliwa from Brooklyn. They have the same mindset: To get the job done.
Maria Musolino
Staten Island
If elected, Andrew Cuomo will flip within the first month to the Republican Party. He will follow Adams’ example, drink his Kool-Aid and accept any help from Trump.
Louis Milo
Manhattan
The outcome of the mayoral race will be determined by a single New Yorker: President Trump. If he offers two of the three major Mamdani opponents high-profile federal jobs as an inducement to drop out of the race, then New York City has a chance of survival.
Meir Wikler
Brooklyn
Since when does a president dictate who should run or not run for a political office, especially in New York?
Trump is totally out of bounds on this one and based on the Constitution, he has no business in this election. This is up to the people and —like it or not — their choice is rock solid for socialist Mamdani.
Let’s be honest for a moment: None of the candidates are great choices, but it is what it is.
Ron Zajicek
Cortlandt
President Trump has made a very grave error in threatening to throw his weight around regarding the New York City mayoral race.
I understand his concerns for the city, as Zohran Mamdani would be a disaster if elected. However, Trump’s threat just solidified the description of dictator against himself, and that will push Trump-haters to vote for Mamdani out of spite.
Susan Cienfuegos
New Rochelle
I agree with Trump on issues more than 90% of the time, but when it comes to the pivotal New York City mayoral race, he is way off.
I agree that Zohran Mamdani as mayor would be a disaster for the city. But when it comes down to which candidate should contest him, Trump sees former Gov. Cuomo as the last man standing.
For a candidate who campaigned on being a “law and order” president, I find it surprising that Trump wouldn’t prefer Guardian Angels founder, Curtis Sliwa.
Eugene Dunn
Medford
How absurd it is that Trump acts as though New York’s former governor is the only viable alternative when he was so soundly beaten in the primary.
It’s hard to imagine Andrew Cuomo ever being seen as the lesser of two evils — even were he to be compared to Satan.
James Evans
Worcester, Mass.
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Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck’s divorce has reportedly not affected the bond between their kids. According to sources, the children are still in contact and share a close relationship with each other. Moreover, the parents have not let their separation affect their kids’ bond. The news came after the 56-year-old singer took her ex-husband’s son, Samuel, out for shopping with her child, Emme, in Beverly Hills.
‘Great mom’ Jennifer Lopez ‘always gave Ben’s kids the same love,’ source claims
Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck’s kids are reportedly “still really close” despite their parents’ divorce. A source close to the 53-year-old actor told PEOPLE that the adults have “stayed on friendly terms” after their separation. They are focused on being good parents, so they make sure that the “kids know they get along.” “The most important thing to both of them is raising their kids in a supportive environment, so they plan to stay in each other’s lives,” Affleck’s insider said.
Meanwhile, JLo’s source claimed that the singer is a “great mom,” who “always gave Ben’s kids the same love.” “Even though her contact with Ben is now more sporadic, they make sure the kids can spend time together whenever they want,” the source added.
Affleck shares three kids — Violet (19), Seraphina (16), and Samuel (13) — with his first wife, Jennifer Garner. The “On the Floor” hitmaker has 17-year-old twins, Max and Emme, with her ex-husband, Marc Anthony. Affleck and Lopez, who were ex-lovers, reconnected and got married in 2022. However, they called it quits after two years, and their divorce was finalized in January this year.
Despite their split, they have reportedly maintained a cordial relationship for the sake of their children. Last week, JLo was spotted with Affleck’s son, Samuel, on a shopping spree in Beverly Hills. They, along with Emme, spent a Saturday together, buying shoes and having lunch. PageSix shared several photos from their outing.
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Starbucks Upper East Side, New York 
