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Celebrity website TMZ, the New York Post's Page
Six and multiple entertainment sites on Friday cited
unidentified sources close to the couple, sometimes known in the
media as J-Rod, as saying the pair had called off their
engagement.
"All the reports are inaccurate. We are working through some
things," Lopez, 51, and Rodriguez, 45, one of the biggest
celebrity couples in the United States, said in a joint
statement provided to Reuters.
The "Love Don't Cost a Thing" singer and Rodriguez, known as
A-Rod, began dating in early 2017 and announced their engagement
in March 2019.
An unnamed source told People magazine the pair never officially
broke up, but had talked about it.
"They hit a rough patch," the source said, adding that rumors
linking A-Rod with a TV reality show star "had no bearing on the
rough patch at all."
"She's working in the Dominican Republic and he's in Miami so
it's tough seeing each other especially with quarantining and
COVID," the source told People.
Lopez, who sang at U.S. President Joe Biden's inauguration in
January, said late last year the couple had postponed their
wedding twice because of the pandemic.
She began her career as a dancer and a singer, and produced and
starred in the 2019 movie "Hustlers."
Rodriguez retired in 2016 after a 22-year career in which he hit
696 home runs, placing him fourth on Major League Baseball's
all-time home run list.
(Reporting by Brendan O'Brien in Chicago; Editing by Daniel
Wallis and Diane Craft)
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