FBI appeals for photos outside Ben Affleck’s Los Angeles home
Ben Affleck has no trouble with the law, despite visits from the FBI and the Los Angeles Police Department.
“Members of the FBI’s Ground Interception Task Force are conducting operations in the Palisades Fire area regarding unauthorized drone activity,” an FBI spokesperson said. Page six in a statement on Monday, January 13. “For this reason, agents and our local partners can be seen throughout the area, including in different residences.”
Photos obtained by various outlets show FBI agents standing outside Affleck’s home in Brentwood on Sunday, January 12. This is reported by TMZ at the time, law enforcement was investigating an incident involving a private drone and a firefighting plane and Page six added that agents were looking for possible surveillance footage from Affleck’s home.
The news comes amid ongoing fires who live in the Los Angeles areaincluding various celebrities who were forced to leave their homes. A wind storm caused by Santa Ana gusts caused brush fires on January 7. Fires continued to growresulting in the deaths of at least 24 people. Some areas of Los Angeles, including Pacific Palisades, were affected.
Us Weekly in July 2024 confirmed that 52-year-old Affleck had bought a house for 20 million dollars two months after he and his ex-wife Jennifer Lopez began to live separately.

An FBI agent investigates illegal drone activity around the Palisades fire area on January 12, 2025. in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.
Apu Gomes/Getty ImagesLopez, 55, filed for divorce from Affleck in August 2024 after two years of marriage. She filed on their wedding anniversary in Georgia, despite being separated since April 2024. Court documents received us On January 6, he confirmed that the former couple had finalized their divorce.
The two sides “agreed to divide all assets and liabilities” to avoid further litigation and costs, according to court documents. Lopez kept her personal belongings and earnings from their separation, as well as half of their bank accounts. Affleck got the same. Their $60 million mansion, now on the market, will be split between them. Specific terms are not mentioned.
Their divorce was settled through mediation in September 2024, at which time Lopez asked to have Affleck removed from her name. The divorce details also state that Lopez will receive custody of all items “individually or by separate entities of which (Lopez) is the sole owner, member or shareholder.”
Affleck, for his part, will retain his stake in the production company Artists Equity, which he founded in 2022 with a longtime friend Matt Damon. He is “ordered to pay, indemnify and hold (Lopez) harmless from and against any and all liabilities, claims, debts, actions, causes of action and/or tax liabilities related to” the company, the filings state.