Star Magazine has a story in their latest print edition about Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner’s supposed impending divorce. It’s just about the same as we’ve heard to date, with some extra quotes to make it interesting. The tabloids are really pushing the “Ben and Jen are over” stories and I still can’t decide whether the evidence is circumstantial and unconvincing (they’re both working this summer; Ben loves to gamble) or if they’re actually close to splitting. Last week, they did step out together coincidentally at the same time as their alleged split hit the tabloids.

Here is an excerpt from Star, and you can read our earlier coverage if you’d like an overview/reminder:

After a decade of feeling like she’s been the one holding the family together, Jen, 43, is prepared to claim as much of the imploding couple’s $120 million fortune as she can get – and full custody of their three kids..

His gambling has been a constant source of frustration for Jen, as is his drinking… and then there were the constant rumors of his fixations on other women.

The couple have already tired marriage counseling, and Jen has begged Ben to rein in his partying and playboy inclinations many times. “He sucks up and apologizes, and she forgives him – until it happens again,” says a source. And while he loves his family, friends say restless Ben, 42, has always felt “cooped up” in their Pacific Palisades ranch house. “Half the time, he doesn’t even bother coming home anymore,” says an Affleck insider. “He crashes at Matt Damon’s place or even checks into hotels. He’ll meet up with his buddies or drink at the bar alone, without so much as a though for his wife.”

[From Star Magazine, print edition, June 15, 2015]

Star claims later in the article that “Jen will fight for as much money as she can” in the divorce, because there is no prenup.

Enquirer goes one better than Star with an interview with the Canadian stripper who claims to have slept with Ben in 2003, right before he called off his wedding to J.Lo. This made me laugh several times. Somehow, the Enquirer kept in touch with this source for 12 years (or, you know, Facebook) and got new quotes from her in the light of Ben’s supposed marital trouble. They also include some amusing quotes from her original interview. This is not to be missed.

The stripper involved in Ben Affleck’s ugly split from Jennifer Lopez has told The National Enquirer she’s not shocked his marriage to Jennifer Garner is kaput!

“No I can’t say I’m surprised,” former blonde bombshell Tammy morris, now 41, said in an exclusive interview.

“I believed, ‘Once a cheater always a cheater.’ My advice to Jen is: ‘Run!’”

In a blockbuster interview in our Aug. 19, 2003 issue, Tammy, then 29, revealed how love rat Ben cheated on then-fiance J.Lo with her… [she] passed multiple polygraph tests…

Canadian temptress Tammy hooked up with Ben… during a wild sex-and-drugs party at a private home with several strippers…

“He [gave] me oral sex. I couldn’t believe it! It wasn’t the greater I’ve ever had, but it was from Ben Affleck!

“I was really hoping Ben had turned his life around. He married the all-American girl. It’s too bad he couldn’t make it work.”

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, and Radar Online]

Buried in that story is a detail that The Enquirer didn’t emphasize but which seems key to this story. They claim that “Affleck has consulted a top Hollywood divorce lawyer.” If this is accurate, it does seem like they’re close to divorcing.

Currently, Garner is in Montreal working on a movie while Affleck is at home with the kids. He’s been seen out with his mother, who seems to be helping him. I doubt he would have let the paparazzi get those photos of him with his mom if he wasn’t having these issues with his public image.

Photos are from 5-28 and 6-2 credit: FameFlynet