Controversial past of Jennifer Lopez, Ben Affleck’s ‘plantation-style’ wedding venue

https://pagesix.com ------- NY Post ^ | August 20, 2022 | By Dana Kennedy and Isabel Vincent

[dennisw]

Ben Affleck tried to sell his sprawling Greek Revival “imitation” plantation — the site of his elaborate wedding to Jennifer Lopez Saturday — three years after revelations surfaced that one of his ancestors was a slave-owning Georgia sheriff.

In 2015, the Hollywood actor tried to suppress details about Benjamin Cole, a relative on his mother’s side who owned several slaves in Chatham County, near his 87-acre Hampton Island property. Affleck purchased the property in 2003, according to reports.

The revelations about Cole were made on PBS’s “Finding Your Roots” hosted by Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Affleck put the lavish property, which includes a deep water port and a 6,000-square-foot home known as “the Big House,” on the market for $8.9 million in 2018. He lowered the price to $7.6 million the following year before taking it off the market, property records show.

Built in 2000, the property was designed by Atlanta-based architect James Strickland to resemble a southern plantation. It also includes a 10,000 square foot guest house and equestrian facilities.

[Old Grumpy]

>>>Ben Affleck tried to sell his sprawling Greek Revival “imitation” plantation — the site of his elaborate wedding to Jennifer Lopez Saturday — three years after revelations surfaced that one of his ancestors was a slave-owning Georgia sheriff.<<<

HAHAHA! Love this!

[Stanwood_Dave]

"Why do Historians make such a big damn thing over something like this? It’s his property..."

In my best Texas county sheriff Buford T. Justice (Jackie Gleason, Smokey & the Bandit voice,) boy, your not thinking right, remember boy "You didn't build that!"

Thank you; Elizabeth Warren, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, a.k.a., Pocahontas, of a line she pioneered ("You didn't build that.") during her 2012 campaign for a Massachusetts, a.k.a. Taxachusetts, Senate seat.

[JohnnyP]

Did you see the TikTok of them recently? He didn’t look happy.

@faux.celeb.love

To help identify the video, there’s a big staircase in the photo.

[CFW]

Anytime the media wants to stir up something and make it controversial, they simply put the word in their headline of the article. Thus the issue magically becomes “controversial”. Instant clicks!

[dfwgator]

BTW YouTube has some great videos from Matt & Trey's 25th Anniversary South Park show they did at Red Rocks. They performed a lot of their SP classics like "Gay Fish", I don't think they did this one, though.

[GaryCrow]

Every single person on the planet is a descendent of a slave owner.

Every single person on the planet is also a descendent of a slave. It is mathematically impossible for both of these not to be true.

This crap is so ridiculous.

[simpson96]

What a tacky, and dumb place to have a reception.

[llevrok]

Be on the lookout for snakes and alligators!

Having spent time in south GA (Jesup) during the summer, I'd be more afraid the the 'skeeters

[llevrok]

I hope the player’s wife never travels to Greece, home of the Doric, Ionic and Corinthian columns.

Or to an Obama campaign rally.

[Captain Peter Blood]

What an incredible waste of money this wedding was.

[Captain Peter Blood]

Didn’t Affleck grow up in Boston with his buddy Matt Damon?

[Trailerpark Badass]

Wasn’t a “waste of money” for the caterers, decorators, servers, etc. You know, people who work for a living. They sure as hell did better than whoever had to work at your wedding.

Yeah, Damn those rich people, spending money on their yachts, big-ass houses, exotic cars...oh you say people earn a living making that stuff?

[Captain Peter Blood]

I find weddings pretty much a waste of money, especially big weddings. Once it’s over the money is spent and gone and with the divorce rate that is why I think they are a waste of money. You in Love and want to get married well you can do it on the cheap and get on with your life.

I don’t attend wedding and I don’t give gifts. Way too much hypocrisy at weddings. I almost would rather go to a funeral and I hate those to.

[nutmeg]

Who on earth would want to sit outside in the August heat and humidity in south Georgia?

Absolute *insanity* to have any formal event in the South in August IMO.

[Cecily]

I think an earlier FReeper had it right - this was an advertisement to sell this property disguised as a wedding. Affleck has been listing and de-listing this house since 2018.

[abb]

Except for maybe a fish fry. Which for us rednecks is quite formal.

[SMARTY]

Henry Louis Gates Jr., now THERE’S one sanctimonious, low-life, fraud.

How can anyone watch that clown?

[nutmeg]

LOL! I can definitely understand having a fish fry outdoors in the South at any time of year. :-)

[SunkenCiv]

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