Who Is Jennifer Garner's Businessman Boyfriend?
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Although I've obsessively chronicled Jennifer Lopez's every saucy, single-girl move since the end of her marriage to Ben Affleck, there's another Hollywood Jen I just can't seem to quit: Jennifer Garner, Affleck's first wife and J.Lo's reputed buddy.
As a rule, I hope desperately and constantly for Garner's happiness, which is why it delighted me so much to see her share a kiss with John Miller, her boyfriend of seven years, at the finish line of a charity run Garner did in Santa Monica for Save the Children last Sunday. Women celebrating their men when they complete athletic feats? Boring. The inverse? Stunning, supportive, adorable, never been done before.
Given Garner is fully in her 50s, I know that I should stop thinking of her as Jenna Rink, her character from 13 Going on 30, but I can't help it; when I see her adorably decked out in two French braids, demurely planting a peck on her man, I immediately think of Jenna marrying sweet, sweet Matty—a.k.a. Mark Ruffalo—at the end of the movie while everyone cheers. After all that tabloid fracas around her divorce, this is the soft-pink, Vaseline-lensed Hollywood fade-out that Garner has always deserved.
There's not a ton of information out there about Miller, save for the fact that he's chairman of the investment company Cali Group and the author of the 2004 book The Handbook of Nanotechnology: Business, Policy, and Intellectual Property Law. (Weirdly, I haven't read it, although I did get through about three pages of a pink-jacketed book on entertainment law while waiting for my best friend in her law school's library. Please clap!) I also enjoy the fact that Miller was briefly CEO of CaliBurger, a fast-food chain best-known for flagrantly ripping off In-N-Out, and that one of the kids he shares with his ex-wife, violinist Caroline Campbell, is named Violet. Given that one of Garner and Affleck's daughters is also a Violet, do they adopt 'Violet 1 and Violet 2' nicknames when they hang out? (I mean, after seven years together, I assume that Miller and Garner's children hang out…but what do I know? You famously can't make teens do anything!)
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