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$400 Million Worth Jennifer Lopez Once Treated Ex-beau Alex Rodriguez to a Valentine’s Day Gift No One Could Top

Published 01/18/2023, 7:10 AM EST

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Former MLB slugger Alex Rodriguez spent the majority of his 22-year-long MLB career with the New York Yankees. While wearing the Pinstripes, he achieved various accolades. But he got the most esteemed of all, the World Series Ring, which he got only once in 2009. And once he got retired in 2016, a new phase of his life began.

A year after his retirement, one of his most fame gathering relationships started with iconic Jennifer Lopez. Fast forward a year into the infamous relationship, JLo gave her ex-fiance a special, early valentine’s gift.

What did Jennifer Lopez give Alex Rodriguez as Valentine’s gift?

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Back in 2018, even though A-Rod wasn’t playing the game, he was still connected to the game in some manner. With a whole new reputation, Rodriguez was going strong both professionally and personally. 

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He was getting serious with the Hustler’s actress. And the couple continued to make headlines even if they, as a couple, had become old news. But when Valentine’s was around the corner in 2018, and with it, pre-super bowl celebrations were also close, Lopez thought of a great early Valentine’s gift. At the pre-super bowl party, she donned a jersey with the number 13 that A-Rod had throughout his time in the Bronx.

 

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Among the various costume changes during the concert, using one of those, the multi-talented JLo flaunted her love for her then-boyfriend Alex Rodriguez.

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How did Rodriguez and Lopez meet for the first time?

Although the famous ex-couple met during mutual friends in 2017, the first time that they met was twelve years ago in 2005. Yes! During a Yankees v/s Mets game, Lopez had met A-Rod while she was still married to Marc Anthony. At the time, the former Yankee was also married to his ex-wife, Cynthia Scurtis.

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It was the first time the ex-celeb couple met and felt that there was something between them. But since both were married to different people at the time, they could not get together.

And now, both have long moved on from each other in 2023 and are living their lives to the fullest. JLo, on one hand, has already tied the knot. But do you see Alex Rodriguez tying the knot any time soon? Let us know in the comments below!

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Rakshita Madan

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Rakshita Madan is an MLB author at EssentiallySports. She is an engineering graduate and is currently pursuing her MBA from NMIMS, Mumbai. Rakshita has experience in writing for more than four years now, with one of her writings even getting published in an anthology.
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