For Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, three isn’t a crowd!
The Hollywood BFFs were spotted enjoying dinner out in Los Angeles on Saturday, May 31, along with Damon’s wife, Luciana Barroso.
In photos obtained by the Daily Mail and People, the trio can be seen embracing outside Beverly Hills steakhouse Steak 48.
Affleck, 52, was clad in a black leather jacket, black shirt and blue jeans. Damon, 54, also kept it casual in a short-sleeved white shirt and khaki pants. Luciana, 48, looked elegant in a tan-colored pantsuit.
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The trio was photographed outside the restaurant, with Affleck hugging both his longtime pal and Damon’s wife, to whom Damon has been married for nearly 20 years. The couple shares three daughters, Isabella, 18, Gia, 16, and Stella, 14. Damon is also stepdad to Luciana’s daughter, Alexia, 26, from a previous marriage.
Saturday night’s low-key dinner date came just hours after Affleck and Damon appeared at Netflix’s Tudum live event to promote their next movie together, The Rip, which is set to premiere on the streaming service in January 2026.
The actors put on a good-humored display as they took the stage at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles and Affleck made a quip about his friend’s long, gray beard. (Damon appears to have grown out his facial hair for his starring role in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey.)
“I trusted Matt would shave the beard before Tudum … and here we are,” Affleck joked onstage.
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Affleck, of course, finalized his divorce from longtime love Jennifer Lopez, 55, earlier this year. Lopez filed for divorce in August 2024.
The relationship between Lopez and Affleck goes back more than 20 years. Lopez and Affleck met on the set of Gigli in 2001 and got engaged in November 2002. They were initially scheduled to get married in September 2003, but they called off their wedding days before the planned ceremony, and in January 2004, they confirmed their split.
The two reconnected in May 2021 and became engaged again in April 2022. They tied the knot in Las Vegas that July and hosted a second ceremony in Georgia the following month.
Lopez recently opened up about how she broke the news of her divorce from Affleck to her twins, Emme and Max, 17.
“I said, ‘I promise you, this is a difficult time, but you’re going to see that I’ll come out the other side stronger and better.’ I promised them that and I did it,” the actress and singer said in an interview with El País published on May 7. “And they feel it now. That gives me a great sense of peace in my life.”
“I had a really tough year. Unexpected things happened. And so, I read a lot of books. I did a lot of self-introspection. I did meditation. I prayed a lot. I wanted to improve my relationship with God. I wanted to kind of really solidify the family unit that is me and my two children, my twins,” Lopez added.
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