Jennifer Lopez tells Dolce & Gabbana crowd that domestic gestures beat luxury in the attraction calculus
In focus Thursday: the Dolce & Gabbana show in Taormina, Sicily, where Jennifer Lopez performed and told the audience that making the bed or washing the dishes registers as sexy in a way that watches, cars, and private jets simply do not. The 56-year-old singer and actress delivered the remark mid-performance, drawing laughter and applause according to People magazine. The moment extended a longer public reckoning Lopez has been conducting since her 2024 divorce from Ben Affleck.
Key takeaways
- At the Dolce & Gabbana show in Taormina, Sicily, Jennifer Lopez told the audience that a partner making the bed or washing the dishes is sexier than watches, cars, or private jets.
- Lopez, 56, delivered the remark mid-performance, drawing laughter and applause according to People magazine.
- On the Howard Stern Show, Lopez called the 2024 end of her marriage to Ben Affleck 'the best thing that ever happened' to her.
- After the divorce, Lopez built a support team including a religious coach, a therapist, a couples therapist, an individual therapist, and an addiction-focused coach.
- At the show she performed 'Love Don't Cost a Thing,' 'Waiting For Tonight,' 'Let's Get Loud,' 'Ain't Your Mama,' and 'Save Me Tonight' in a sparkling bodysuit.
In focus Thursday: the Dolce & Gabbana show in Taormina, Sicily, where Jennifer Lopez performed and told the audience that making the bed or washing the dishes registers as sexy in a way that watches, cars, and private jets simply do not. The 56-year-old singer and actress delivered the remark mid-performance, drawing laughter and applause according to People magazine. The moment extended a longer public reckoning Lopez has been conducting since her 2024 divorce from Ben Affleck.
What she said from the stage
Lopez opened with a bit of staging. She told one of her backup dancers to fix her hair, then dismissed the rest of the group: "You're broke. I don't need you. I don't need your money. I don't need your gifts." From there she addressed the crowd directly.
She granted that watches, cars, and private jets are nice. Then she set them aside. What actually registers, she said, is a partner who makes the bed in the morning or handles the dishes when someone is worn out. Short, declarative, landed clean.
She followed with a riff on her own image. Lopez told the crowd twice that she is expensive, then noted that she has her own money. Women do not need anyone to buy them things, she said. Wanting that sometimes, she allowed, is a separate category.
The Affleck divorce and what came after
On SiriusXM's Howard Stern Show, Lopez described the 2024 end of her marriage to Ben Affleck as "the best thing that ever happened" to her. They were married from 2022 to 2024. The split pushed her to build real support: a religious coach, a therapist, a couples therapist, an individual therapist, and a coach focused on understanding addiction. She said her aim was to figure it out completely, whatever that required.
Lopez has been married four times. Her marriage to Marc Anthony ran from 2004 to 2014.
What she concluded: her former partners gave everything they had in them. The houses, the rings, the marriage. All of it. The constraint was their capacity. She described arriving at a more self-assured place, aware of what shaped her, her parents among them, how she learned to love and where she felt neglected.
The set
Lopez performed "Love Don't Cost a Thing," "Waiting For Tonight," "Let's Get Loud," "Ain't Your Mama," and "Save Me Tonight" for the Dolce & Gabbana audience in Taormina. She wore a sparkling bodysuit.
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Filed by the newsroom of MarketPR on August 2, 2026. Source: foxnews.com. Indicative figures are not investment advice.