The fatal mistake that J-Lo and Ben Affleck are STILL paying for as the staggering true cost of their brief marriage is revealed

Turns out, love does cost a thing. In this case, $22 million and counting. 

The Daily Mail understands that Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are still trying to offload their Beverly Hills marital mansion, more than a year after their divorce. 

The pair bought the home in July 2023 for $60.8 million, less than a year after tying the knot in a lavish Georgia wedding. They parted ways in January 2025, finalizing their divorce months later. 

But they still haven’t been able to shake the property and its exorbitant monthly running cost, which experts say is around $17,000-a-month. 

It’s been listed and relisted twice now, with the former couple slashing $16 million from the asking price over the course of several months. 

Now, it sits stagnant and stale on the market for $52 million.

The sale is being handled by none other than Rick Hilton, father to socialite Paris, and a Hollywood real estate legend. 

If they’re able to sell it tomorrow, the couple will have lost $16 million on the listing price alone, plus an estimated $600,000 on electric and water bills. Records suggest their 2025 tax bill was a stiff $755,000 and they’re on the hook for around $5 million in closing costs when it does sell.

All up, that’s a $22 million shortfall. 

‘There’s nobody – nobody – that doesn’t care about losing ten to 20 million dollars,’ Jason Oppenheim, star of Netflix’s Selling Sunset and Oppenheim Group president told the Daily Mail.  

The now-divorced duo purchased the home for $60.8 million in July 2023, less than a year after marrying. 

They intended to move in after extensive renovations, but it all fell apart. 

By July 2024, the two had broken up for the second time. The mansion was rushed back on the market, this time for $68 million. 

Affleck and Lopez then cut the price to $59.9 million in May 2025. 

Two months later, it was pulled off the market again, and the couple’s house drama continued. 

In September 2025, Affleck and Lopez relisted the home, slashing the asking price even more to $52 million. Still, no sale.

In January, the two pulled the property from the market again.

In his view, their fatal mistake was listing it in the middle of a price range. 

‘Sellers are their own worst enemy. I don’t understand the concept of $52 million.

‘It needs to be priced at $49 million or even $49.5 million. 

‘I just don’t see the logic to reducing it to $52 million. The truth is you’d get more activity at $49 million because many wealthy people and their agents will only search for homes up to $50 million. 

‘It’s the same logic as shopping in a store, 49 is a more attractive price. It’s no different than a price tag, are you going to buy the $520 item or the one priced at $499?’ Oppenheim said.

In the meantime, the financial burden of maintaining the mansion is enormous, even for stars of their magnitude.

There’s the monthly upkeep on the property, from massive electric and air conditioning bills to landscaping and cleaning. 

Oppenheim estimates the monthly electric bill to be around $15,000, with water costing an additional $2,000. 

Daily maintenance is also needed on the 38,000-square-foot home and its 12-car garage, the 5,000-square-foot guest penthouse, the biggest zero-edge pool in Beverly Hills, the caretaker house and a two-bedroom guardhouse.

They likely installed state-of-the-art security and hired full-time guards.

The massive home also has a sports lounge, a fully-equipped gym, a boxing ring and courts for basketball and pickleball which all need upkeep.

Despite their wealth, property records show that the couple did take out a $20 million mortgage through a trust. Based on the mortgage rate at the time of purchase, their monthly mortgage payment alone is around $133,060.

According to Zillow, the 2025 property taxes on the mansion were $755,518. 

The real estate listing site also estimates that the closing costs on the house, when it does sell, will be about $4.7 million. 

Los Angeles also has a ‘mansion tax’ paid by the seller when a deal closes to fund affordable housing in the city. In Affleck and Lopez’s case, since they are selling for over $10.6 million, they will have to fork over 5.5 percent for the tax, totaling another $2.8 million in losses. 

‘Besides the bills and the upkeep and maintenance, insurance, property tax, repairs, maintenance, landscape, water, utilities, the longer it sits, the house itself also depreciates,’ Oppenheim said.

A home loses market value while sitting on the market because it turns ‘stale,’ causing buyers to suspect hidden flaws or a major defect, which reduces demand.

The lack of interest forces sellers to lower prices, while they simultaneously incur ‘carrying costs’ like the taxes, maintenance, and insurance, reducing the net equity.

Oppenheim said Affleck and Lopez probably overpaid for the home in the first place, but he thinks it will eventually sell at $49 million. 

‘Listing at that number is likely the last time they’ll have to list. 

‘It doesn’t hurt that they owned it, it brings some positive cachet,’ he said. 

And even though they are both independently wealthy, no doubt neither Affleck nor Lopez wants to watch their bank accounts drain.

‘They should have sold at $49 million, invested in a treasury bill and made a few million a year.’