Ben Affleck spends quality time with son in LA… after ex Ana de Armas steps out with mystery man

Ben Affleck was spotted spending some quality time with his son Samuel, nine, in Los Angeles this Friday.

The 48-year-old Justice League heartthrob was California casual in a dark hoodie thrown over a T-shirt and teamed with dark jeans.

The outing comes just days after Affleck’s 32-year-old ex girlfriend Ana de Armas was seen grabbing coffee with a hunky mystery man. 

Ben shares son Samuel, as well as daughters Violet, 15, and Seraphina, 12 with his amicable ex-wife Jennifer Garner, whom he split from in 2018.

The Academy Award-winner’s break-up with de Armas occurred in January, after nearly 10 months together.

He met the Cuban beauty on the set of their soon-to-be released erotic thriller Deep Water, which began filming in New Orleans in November 2019. 

They seemed to be inseparable as they spent much of the pandemic together last year, taking daily walks with Ana’s dog and grabbing coffee.

‘The quarantine was unique because they had downtime and ­really got to know each other spending time at home,’ a source told Page Six at the time.

But it seems that once work picked up again, things changed in their relationship.

‘Ana decided she doesn’t want to live in LA and Ben wants to be close to his family,’ they added of Ben’s three children with ex Jennifer Garner. ‘His priority is to be rooted in LA. They are in different places [in their lives].’

Another factor was rumored to be that Ana wants children but Ben doesn’t want any more. This was said to be a deal-breaker for the couple.

Ben’s latest outing in Los Angeles also comes just two days after he wrapped filming in Boston on his upcoming movie The Tender Bar. 

The Hollywood dreamboat was seen affectionately hugging his colleagues on the set during his last day of shooting on the picture.

George Clooney is directing the movie in Ben’s native Massachusetts and it concluded principal photography this week.

The movie is based on the 2005 memoirs by Pulitzer-winning author J.R. Moehringer who used to spend time at his uncle’s Long Island bar in search of a father figure.

J.R.’s memoir reveals his father was a DJ who left when his son was a baby prompting the author to search for a stand-in among the barflies.

Ben like George is a movie star who has turned director in a number of previous films and is set to assume the same position again.

In fact after The Tender Bar Ben’s docket includes directing and starring in a World War II movie that is entitled Ghost Army.

Last month Affleck’s ex wife Jennifer Garner publicly changed her mind about one of her famous quotes from the early days of their separation.

The 48-year-old actress told Vanity Fair in 2016 that ‘I lost the dream of dancing with my husband at my daughter’s wedding.’

However in a recent Hollywood Reporter interview she smiled and said: ‘When our kids get married, we’ll dance, I know that now.’

The onetime couple tied the knot in 2005 and over the course of their marriage welcomed Violet, 15, Seraphina, 12, and Samuel, nine. 

After they separated in 2015 they sustained a co-parenting relationship that was so friendly that it led to frequent reunion rumors. 

When they first separated in 2015 Ben was amid a swirl of reports about his affair with the family’s nanny Christine Ouzounian.

However Jennifer clarified to Vanity Fair in that 2016 interview: ‘Let me just tell you something. We had been separated for months before I ever heard about the nanny.’

The 13 Going On 30 actress continued: ‘She had nothing to do with our decision to divorce. She was not a part of the equation. Bad judgment? Yes. It’s not great for your kids for [a nanny] to disappear from their lives.’