Ben Affleck’s nanny also posed for InTouch: ‘If Ben dumps her, she will sue’ (update)

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Update: Thanks to InTouch for sending us these pictures of Ouzounian poolside

Earlier this week we reported on Ben Affleck’s mistress and onetime nanny to his kids, Christine Ouzounian, staging a bikini photo op with Star Magazine. Ouzounian fed the tabloid some ridiculous details attributed to a “source,” presumably the same person who took the pics of her lounging poolside at the Bel Air hotel. She claimed that she was still talking to Ben daily, and that he let her down gently by telling her “he loved me, but he can’t be with me under these circumstances.” At the time, I wondered who was footing the bill for the nanny’s stay in an exclusive hotel, where rooms start at over $900 a night. As we heard from People Magazine, Ben is paying the tab, of course.

Well Ouzanian just pulled the same stunt she did with Star except she did it with In Touch. In Touch has new bikini photos of her at the Hotel Bel Air. In one she’s checking her phone like she’s texting with Ben. In another she’s having a drink with a friend. They also have more details of her stay there. Ben is paying for everything, she’s invited her friends to hang out with her at the hotel, and he also gave her enough money to last a few months. If Ben doesn’t continue to bankroll this woman, she’s threatening to sue Jennifer Garner for wrongful termination. We’ve heard this before from her, and it’s such a hollow threat. Here’s more:

Ben Affleck and Christine Ouzounian – the nanny who multiple sources confirm to In Touch magazine had a fling with Ben while working for him and his estranged wife, Jennifer Garner — have been in constant contact since their scandalous romance broke in late July but sources tell the mag that it may all be to avoid further scandal.

A source exclusively reveals to In Touch that Ben has put Christine up at his favorite luxury hotel and is paying for everything and spoiling her: “Christine is living the high life holed up in a swanky suite and Ben is paying for all of it — even for her girlfriends, who have been staying with her,” a friend tells In Touch of the nanny, who worked for the Afflecks this spring and was let go around the time of their divorce announcement on June 30. “Ben has given her enough money to cover all her bills and expenses, plus spending money, for at least the next three months. She doesn’t have to worry about a thing.” Ben’s rep has called reports of a romance between Ben and Christine “garbage.”

However, the friend believes “Ben’s leading her on so that she stays quiet.”

Adds the source, “He knows he needs to keep her happy or the whole thing could turn ugly really fast. She doesn’t feel burned by Ben — not yet, anyway.” And if she gets burned, Jen is going to feel the heat. Another source tells In Touch: “Christine is considering suing Jennifer Garner for wrongful termination. If Ben dumps her, she will sue.”

If things couldn’t get worse for Jen, the first source says, “Christine has been calling and texting Ben nonstop. She’s in love with him and is telling friends that she would marry Ben the minute his divorce is finalized.”

For more details on Ben’s scandalous relationship with Christine, pick up the latest issue of In Touch Weekly, on newsstands now!

[From In Touch]

Ok this makes a lot more sense to me now. I truly didn’t believe Ben would be stupid enough to pay for this woman’s luxury suite as she was doing pap walks and talking to the press, but he somehow thinks he’s mitigating the situation. He’s super rich, so this is nothing to him. How idiotic is this woman though? She just keeps calling the different tabloids and she’s trying to live the high life for ten minutes. She should be getting Ben’s cash and saving it, not blowing it by partying at a tony LA resort. (He probably gave her cash plus he’s footing the bill, but still this is not a smart move.)

Also, she’s never going to sue Jennifer Garner. People reported that Garner gave Ouzounian a poor performance review at her nanny agency for not caring for the children properly. She doesn’t have a case at all against Garner. She could theoretically sue Affleck for harassment as he was her boss, but think of the high power lawyers he’ll get. She might be able to get Gloria Allred but it’s not like she has a case there either.

Page Six has a new article about Ouzounian’s personality and “what she’s like”. They’ve run stories straight from the PR people for Affleck in the past so this may actually be coming from him. They claim that she was “spunky” and “good-hearted” in high school and “was well-liked enough to attend a 10-year reunion two weekends ago.” What?! I always go to my high school reunions, reunions are a blast, and I don’t consider it a badge of honor or anything. They also report that “she’s like a spunky personality… she’s good-hearted, smiling a lot, she’s quirky.” Is this Ben’s attempt to make the nanny seem relatable? Like to explain his wandering dick? Something like “fun, quirky, good-hearted woman steps into the orbit of a henpecked husband with an inattentive wife.” Because it sounds just like that.

Finally, at the end of the Page Six article, their source says “I think she’s trying to be undercover. I know that she was trying to get away because there’s paparazzi outside her mom’s house. She doesn’t want to have her mom and her family be involved.” Hahahaha.

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  1. Betti says:

    How can she sue? She got sacked for gross mis-conduct – and by going public with her affair she’s admitting to the fact. God she really is the most stupid nanny alive – she wont get any sympathy from anyone.

    • Jem says:

      I think she’s trying any angle she can to hold onto him, and/or prolong her “fame”. It’s not about having a valid case, it’s about feeding the tabloids. This chick is THIRSTY or CRAZY or maybe both.

      • Zapp Brannigan says:

        Maybe she is aiming for a reality show, “Real Nannies Of Unemployment” seems like it could be a title.

      • BlueNailsBetty says:

        @Zapp. Ha! They should call it Citing Unemployment, Nannies Talk (to the tabloids)!

      • Izzy says:

        @Betty – LOL. I see what you did there! Nicely done!

      • CooCooCatchoo says:

        The nickname “Oozy!” LOLOL!!! Perfect.
        Ugh, what a nasty trick ho. I wish Jen could just call the hotel and cut the gravy train off.
        Oozy will be appearing a Vegas strip club in 3… 2… 1.

    • ORLY says:

      She can probably make a case around the bad performance review (??). If she did an excellent job with the kids (despite her extra curricular activities) she may have a shot. Especially if she’s unable to find work to support herself because of a bad reference from Jen.

      • Jayna says:

        No. Because that was an internal review while employed with the agency. Upon severance, Ben wrote a glowing letter of recommendation. Jen got hold of it and parsed it way down to the bare minimum, but it was still a letter of recommendation.

      • Liberty says:

        CA is an at-will employment state. Bascially, I think they can dismiss her if they don’t like her hair or crappy shoes or, in this case, refusal to fold kids’ clothes or truculent attitude about getting off Ben’s lap. I am not sure she can use age, gender or disability to fight this.

      • greenmonster says:

        I would think that putting the Daddy to bed as well is a very good reason for a bad perfomance review. And since it was probably her who leaked the story and won’t be quiet about it, she will never find work as a nanny again. She made her bed (and his).

      • doofus says:

        she can say all day long that she was “excellent” with the kids, but if the employer says she wasn’t, and that she was more interested in doing the hubby than her job…well, then…she’s got NO case.

        and the only reason she won’t find work (at least as a nanny) is that SHE BANGED THE HUSBAND…seems like a pretty legit reason to me, and of her own doing.

      • Kiddo says:

        doofus, the reason she can’t find work is that she made it VERY PUBLIC that she banged the husband. If she went away quietly, and didn’t pose in bikinis and take money from tabloids left and right, the public could have had reasonable doubt about her level of influence in initiating the relationship, and she might have held quiet sympathy, if this story leaked from someone else. She screwed the pooch and better save her money now, because no one else is going to hire her because she is radioactive in spilling secrets.

      • BlueNailsBetty says:

        @Kiddo. Right?!? Rule #1 in Hollywood is “keep your mouth shut”. Oozy has already ruined any chance she has of having a career as anything but a porn actress. Even prostitutes are expected to follow Rule #1.

      • The Original G says:

        She may have a sexual harrassment suit against him. He’s her employer, told her getting invlovled would be ok, exerted his power differential…..I can see it.

      • Allison Cameron says:

        Garner and Affeck can sue her actually…I’m sure she signed a confidentiality agreement.

    • Wren says:

      I feel like that’s the cover-up story, the one given to explain why she’s being supported in this fashion. I think she knows something, something Ben doesn’t want the world to know, and this is a simple “take care of me or I’ll really start talking, and you wouldn’t want that now would you” situation.

      • Betti says:

        Yes, someone is paying for her to stay at the hotel and am not sure its In Touch.

      • Kiddo says:

        Those rumors about the heroine use?

      • lolo says:

        Bingo! Obviously her being sequestered at the bel air is to keep her isolated and more monitored. Its a way to control her, which means she’s got a whole lot of shit on Ben still. That idiot probably did drugs or thresholds with goats with her or something way worse than banging her.

        And that girl better be careful cause when you start messing with millions of dollars at stake, people do desperate things.

      • kcarp says:

        I think she knows that some of his ancestors were slave owners.

      • Anne says:

        Yeah, the weirdness of this encourages that line of speculation. (Why, Ben, why?) By the way, is anyone else side-eyeing Ben & Jennifer for hiring this woman in the first place? Given the way she is handling herself and her obvious hunger for attention, I can’t image she would have ever given the impression of being discreet or trustworthy when she interviewed for a position in their home. . .

      • Meatball says:

        I don’t know how well that would work at this point though. Unless she has hard evidence they will be able to chalk it up to a very bitter mistress making up lies because Ben broke her heart. I would hope he wouldn’t be stupid enough to do anything overly stupid in front of a chick he was banging for a minute. Plus he can always pull the rehab bit if it is drugs. I think him having a mistress is more harmful to his image than being an addict.

      • bcgirl says:

        #kcarp HA! good one.

      • Lena says:

        Yep, she must have something good lol. Maybe she really is pregnant haha.

      • SillySimone says:

        This is becoming silly – all of these speculations of a huge scandal, so big, it will sink Hollywood or something. People keep saying this and I can’t see it at all. Seriously, what could be bigger than Woody Allen molesting his daughter and marrying his girlfriend’s daughter he helped raise? Or, bigger still, Roman Polanski and his rape of a child? Drugs? In Hollywood? I am shocked! I think it is what it is. He was banging the nanny. Got caught and is now trying to make her go away because the more she is around, the more embarrassment she causes him and his family, especially his children. Plus, if she were blackmailing him, that is illegal and she could very quickly be arrested. I think it was Rob Lowe who had one of those and he dealt with her very aggressively and quickly.

        Ben is a douche. He should just sit this out and let the grown ups handle it. Garner, for her kid’s sake, should get her hands a bit dirty frankly. This girl does not want the paps she is courting to bother her family – while she is happily destroying Garner’s kids? I say turn the tables, hire a P.I., and find out every dirty thing about this girl and her family. Just saying.

      • Liv says:

        kcarp, you made my day! 😉

      • laura in LA says:

        kcarp, you might be on to something…

        But seriously, at this point, what about Ben/Jen could be any worse than the rumors that are already out there?

        So Ben’s got problems with drinking, gambling, and probably drugs. Anything else? Oh, yeah, maybe sex, but he’s most certainly, like the songs go, addicted to love, and love is the drug, etc.

        Ben, are you listening? Please stop this nonsense, and cut this b*tch off for good. By dragging it out, you’re only making things worse for yourself – and driving everyone crazy. This lazy fame-ho deserves nothing!

        Then, for the love of God…

        GO TO REHAB!!!

      • Red says:

        Aaargh, I hate Ben for actually making me have to think deeply about this. Do you think maybe she isnt lying about being his girlfriend? Maybe they DO actually talk everyday. Maybe he promised to make her a “stah dahling” and he doesnt want to begrudge her a few headlines especially if they can hurt the mother of his kids in the process. Maybe he likes the fact that she is unhinged because it adds an element of danger to the hookup? I mean, why else hasnt he atleast put out a statement denying that they are in constant communication.

      • Jeanette says:

        Yes! I was thinking the same thing! I feel like if he could have he would have dropped it like its hot when the divorce was announced if nothing but to get more sympathy as the henpecked husband..but SOMETHING..is keeping her in the picture besides WDS (Wandering Dong Syndrome).

        2 Other Things…
        Ben likes em cray evidently! And this woman puts the “wreck” in homewrecker!!

    • pikny says:

      hope jennifer’s oldest kid cant read yet.

      • kcarp says:

        kids learn to read in kindergarten so no doubt she can read. Hopefully she doesn’t get online though

    • KJ says says:

      I think we can all agree that Ben is a douche. Interesting, he is used to calling the shots. Now it looks like his wife and mistress have him by the balls. I like that the nanny is making him uncomfortable and on edge. He played with a wild card. Team terrible shoes!! I feel sorry for the children.

    • Allison Cameron says:

      First off, I’m sure she signed a confidentiality agreement therefore SHE could be sued for tipping off media. This girl is a complete disgrace.

    • Allison Cameron says:

      If she signed a confidentiality agreement, Garner and Affleck could sue her. It’s no secret SHE tipped off the media. He should go all balls out and scare the crap out of her with a letter from his attorney. Her 15 min will be up soon and she’ll see how harsh reality can be.

  2. Tiffany :) says:

    That money to pay for the hotel could also be severance pay, which technically would come from Ben (and Jen).

    • Zwella Ingrid says:

      I don’t think she would be so foolish or delusional to use severance pay to pay for the hotel. But who knows? The fact that she has stayed that long, and has girlfriends staying? visiting? is starting to give credence to the supposition that Ben is paying. The only way he is still communicating with her, is if she actually does have something pretty devastating on him. Otherwise she is just gambling that this will parlay into a playboy centerfold, or something of that nature. The longer she stays, the more it looks like she has something on him. Isn’t this blackmail more or less though?

      • Tiffany :) says:

        I don’t see why having friends visit supports the idea that Ben is paying. Severance, especially with an awkward dismissal, can be quite a large amount.

        There is nothing in her actions that suggests she isn’t both foolish and delusional.

      • Merritt says:

        I think she could be that delusional. Some people think they can take a scandal and turn it into a career. As it is she destroyed many of her work opportunities by cashing in on the story. She absolutely won’t get work as a nanny or celebrity assistant now. Her sister’s career could suffer from the fallout. If she does have something on him, she should be careful in how she is handling that, because I think Ben would actually go after her for extortion.

  3. Luca76 says:

    Oh my god I just can’t believe this is happening. I mean the poor kids but WOW this is an insane story- a gift from the gossip gods.
    Why can’t he get her to shut up???

    • MrsB says:

      Seriously, I cannot believe how crazy this divorce has gotten. I don’t even understand. Doesn’t Ben have lawyers to advise him and tell him she has no chance at a lawsuit? PR people that can surely do a better job than this? Why doesn’t he just pay her butt load of cash to make her go away?!?

      • Tiffany :) says:

        “Why doesn’t he just pay her butt load of cash to make her go away?!?”

        Ben and Jen probably did, and that is what she is using to fund her stay in expensive hotels. I don’t think she is being fully honest when she says “Ben is paying for her hotel”. That could technically be true if a severance payment was given out, which it most likely did.

        By “sources” talking to tabloids instead of her directly, she is avoiding breaking a privacy clause….until they can trace the “source” back to her, anyway.

      • Kelly says:

        What are the odds that one of the magazines is paying for her to stay. It keeps her right in the public eye.

      • MrsB says:

        I would think that if a severance payment was made, there would be some very strict agreements that nothing else would be leaked to the media.
        Maybe she has some pictures of drug use or something so she basically has him by the b*lls, so to speak. Or maybe a magazine is paying for her? Or maybe Ben is really just an absolute idiot, and this is playing out exactly like it’s being reported. Whatever it is, it is blowing my mind.

      • Luca76 says:

        MrsB I think you’re onto something. She must have something more incriminating on him.

      • Tiffany :) says:

        There would be an agreement, but if she isn’t the one talking to the tabs, if she has friends and family do it for her, she could get around it.

        I think your idea of a magazine paying for her is also a possibility.

    • annaloo. says:

      You know… it’s crazy. She is def psycho, this girl. BUT, Ben has had a reputation of a wandering eye.. Maybe this is his karma?

      It’s not right what she’s doing. But for someone who has been with the family only since January, it’s amazingly, amazingly devious what she has done. It’s crazy to think how there are people out there who would plan out like this.

    • Little Darling says:

      Luca I feel the same way, mortified because of the very real lives that are being affected, but as a gossip monger, man is this just gold.

      The irony too, that no matter how hard Jen Garner tried to get a grip on her husband and perfect life, she just couldn’t make it happen. Not only did they break up, which by all said accounts was something she did NOT want to do, but that it has quickly grown into epic proportions in such a short amount of time. I mean, even in gossip standards this divorce of an A list star is pretty colossal.

      This chick is kind of a famewhore extraordinaire. It’s like she’s studied the Mistress Make Money off of Married Men handbook for years and then came out of the gates on fire.

      Her thirsty nature cannot quench the burning fire for notoriety in her soul.

    • Elisa the I. says:

      It’s the week of good gossip! Hail the gossip gods!
      I find it hilarious that the Afflecks were praised for their “perfect” uncoupling PR machine post divorce.
      This whole mess damages not only Ben’s reputation but also Jennifer’s. Not to speak of the poor kids.

      • Red says:

        I’m sure that this doesnt damage Jennifer at all. Responsible parents should always sell a divorce as a peaceful parting of ways, whether you are celebrities or not. Save the tales of drama for your bffs, you should never put your crap on the street where the kids could one day find it. Even if Violet and her siblings intuitively picked up on drama, they should never have had to worry about their school mates, let alone strangers, knowing about it. Screw Ben for bringing in the trash and ruining a PR roll out that allowed him to walk away clean.

    • SillySimone says:

      He can get her to shut up if this is true. 1. She has no case. 2. If this is true, then what she is doing is blackmail. He can be aggressive and take her down via the legal system.

      • Janie says:

        Finally! Someone with common sense! I’d say sue away! None of this makes sense! Finish the divorce and move on! Could he have humiliated Jennifer anymore? What a self centered jerk!

  4. Crumpet says:

    Bai Ling is unhinged. I especially like how you can see the tag on the inside of her dress. She is trying to be edgy (or something) but the tacky wins out, every time.

  5. kri says:

    “What she’s like”? Ummmm…..she is like a really awful person who banged another awful person who also happened to be the father of the children she was hired to safeguard. I’d say they are made for each other.

    • doofus says:

      NO ONE CARES. seriously, NO ONE CARES ‘what she’s like”…we KNOW. no one wants to dig any deeper into the psyche of some random chick who happened to work for a famous couple and banged the husband of the couple. this woman should be shamed and ignored, (and Benny boy should be shamed), not celebrated and given interviews (and yeah, this is directly from her, I’m sure) about why she’s such a catch. (spoiler: SHE’S NOT.)

      and if nothing happened between you two, Benny boy, WHY ARE YOU PAYING HER WAY?

      • qwerty says:

        I think she has sth on him and told him she wants the rags to write something nice about her. Just for fun…

    • boredblond says:

      +1 Kri! Everyone assumes he wants her gone..I’m not so sure..he doesn’t want the bad press, but I bet he wants her to stick around until it dies down. She’s a sure thing he doesn’t have to work for.

      • Pamela says:

        “Everyone assumes he wants her gone..I’m not so sure..he doesn’t want the bad press, but I bet he wants her to stick around until it dies down. She’s a sure thing he doesn’t have to work for.”

        I agree with you that MAYBE he doesn’t want her gone. But I have different reasoning. I don’t think he cares that she is a “sure thing”. As much as most of us are not interested in Ben Afleck sexually, I think that he could go anywhere / anytime and find some strange that he didn’t have to work for. He is a celeb in Hollywood. But I do wonder if he wants HER to think he wants her around. If she really does think he loves her, and really is unhinged, he might be stringing her along to try to keep as much of a lid on this as possible. My theory is a bit far fetched, but it would explain why he is paying for the hotel…IF he is. I suppose a tabloid could be, just to SAY Ben is, and sell magazines with pics of her by the pool “texting him.”

      • Ming says:

        Ofcouse He doesn’t want her gone, she is a perfect tool, a good diversion. While all gossip mags are busy digging the sh*t about this nanny, Ben is back to REHAB. His Live by Night does not start until November right?

  6. Neah23 says:

    I think the whole she was going to sue Jennifer Garner was BS put out by Hollywood Life. Both People magazine and US Weekly could not confirm it which is very telling .

    I won’t believe this from InTouch until People magazine and US Weekly confirm it because they seem to be the once with the real inside scoop.

  7. Jem says:

    Oh, honey, he’s already moved on. He’s on random peice #6 since dumping your butt a week ago….

  8. Maya says:

    And I am going to sue the media for giving this woman her 15 minutes and for pushing her in our faces.

    • BooBooLaRue says:

      but wait, it has provided us some relief from the Kardashians and Miley Cyrus, so I applaud that

      • icy says:

        Lol, love when the trashians or push aside for other drama. They are trying to make that story with Kountney happen, when no one gives a f**k!!

  9. COSquared says:

    Give me a T ! Give me a H! Give me a I ! Give me a R ! Give me a S ! Give me a T! AND WHAT DOES THAT SPELL?

  10. Liberty says:

    Um, would this be known as blackmail, and isn’t blackmail against the law?
    ……Ok. Quick Google search turns up CA Penal code 518 and 519:

    518. Extortion is the obtaining of property from another, with his
    consent, or the obtaining of an official act of a public officer,
    induced by a wrongful use of force or fear, or under color of
    official right.

    519. Fear, such as will constitute extortion, may be induced by a
    threat of any of the following:
    1. To do an unlawful injury to the person or property of the
    individual threatened or of a third person.
    2. To accuse the individual threatened, or a relative of his or
    her, or a member of his or her family, of a crime.
    3. To expose, or to impute to him, her, or them a deformity,
    disgrace, or crime.
    4. To expose a secret affecting him, her, or them.

    520. Every person who extorts any money or other property from
    another, under circumstances not amounting to robbery or carjacking,
    by means of force, or any threat, such as is mentioned in Section
    519, shall be punished by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of
    Section 1170 for two, three or four years.

    • Kay says:

      Thank you. That’s all I could think while reading this. Okay honey, go ahead and broadcast your extortion schemes to the world. That’ll make it a lot easier on everyone when you attempt to sue when your “boyfriend” breaks up with you.

      Ugh. This whole situation is gross.

    • Tifygodess24 says:

      I thought the same thing!

    • funcakes says:

      Yes it’s all that’s mentioned above. But there’s nothing anyone can do because that means going to court and airing all their dirty laundry. This nanny debacle is what we know about. Imagine the other scandals his PR team had to clean up over the years.

      • anon33 says:

        THIS RIGHT HERE. Ben would be an absolute FOOL to try to claim she’s blackmailing him. A fool.

    • laura in LA says:

      Liberty,
      It wouldn’t be the first time a nanny has tried to extort money from a celebrity and lost in court: http://madamenoire.com/285930/its-a-stick-up-stick-up-celebs-who-were-victims-of-extortion-or-blackmail/10/

      Ben should take a page from Rob Lowe by getting ahead of this and suing her to just shut down this whole ridiculous scheme! Maybe they’re waiting for her to trip up and reveal details of their marriage or his problems, which would definitely violate the terms of the NDA.

  11. Bridget says:

    This is going well.

  12. DodieTn says:

    This gal is a piece of work. He will wish he stayed with Jen. I think he will end up abandoning those kids, he can party but no time with kids. I guess Jen revoked his staying in guest house property. I think he is gonna hang himself and doing a great job.

    • Jayna says:

      Nah. For all his faults, I think he adores his children and they adore him. It’s what kept him in the marriage, not wanting to hurt them.

      • Ana says:

        Well, he just hurt his kids and HUMILIATED them big time. He just left them the most embarrassing legacy and I am not talking about the slave story. It is the internet legacy of banging the nanny.

        He doesn’t love anybody. He loves himself! The family image he was trying to peddle for years was his best product not his work. This is a one big tool. He is getting lots of hate on Twitter.

        His publicist Shawn is one big douche. How can you work for a guy like this? It is one lie after another that they can’t even think of one great comeback without contradicting themselves. No respect.

      • Jayna says:

        @Ana, I agree about the nanny. Probably the most selfish thing he’s ever done and it is out there to humiliate especially his oldest daughter, who will know about this and her schoolmates.

      • lolo says:

        They’ll love him until they start school and kids tell them how their dad banged who they thought was their nice caregiver. His oldest especially will grasp a good deal of the implications here, and she’s at a stage of development(prepubescent) where this is very devastating to a growing mind. So, yeah slow hand clap to Ben for putting hired p+ssy who bonded with his kids over protecting his children from unsavory details of how badly adults can eff up.

      • meh says:

        Nope. If he loved his kids beyond seeing them as tools for his own ego, he would have spared them all the phoney pap parades during Oscar season.

      • Merritt says:

        I think a lot depends on how much influence Violet has over how her siblings think. I would be surprised if Violet didn’t know something at this point. Eventually the gaps will get filled in and she may not want to spend time with him. And if she is the type of older sister who influences her her siblings, they may follow suit.

  13. Green Is Good says:

    Nanny twat-waffle is too effing smug. Truly a punchable face.

  14. Jayna says:

    She is a nothing but a nothing. She lives with her parents, bounces from job to job, with her sister trying to get her in the nanny business. Now she’s lounging at the Hotel Bel-Air on Ben’s dime while he’s trying to control an uncontrollable situation, because she’s not cooperating. She wants to be seen and talked about and is making sure she is. She’s a star, in her own mind. There’s not one interesting thing about her. What she tries to throw out there is so bland and benign, because there is nothing about her past that holds our attention, except the fact that she has Ben by the balls because she refuses to go away and keeps selling stories and photos.

    She is one delusional fame-ho, because she thinks he’s in love with her and they will end up together, even though she’s out there fame-hoing it to the max and selling stories.

    • doofus says:

      you perfectly stated what I’ve been saying for days (just not as eloquently).

      with her, there’s no THERE there…her ONLY claim to fame is that she banged the guy whose kids she was caring for. as you said, there is NOTHING interesting about her (other than the affair angle, and that’s not even that interesting as much as it’s shameful and gross.)

    • flaca says:

      Yeah, right, it’s all her fault…that poor, weak, inocent man was probably forced to sleep with her!…Actually what I see here is two adults, one from them was married, one was single. Both apparently lied and hurt the third adult and worst of all, the children. While this whole circus is disgusting and all of these people are clearly willing to do anything (except protect the children), to protect their public image, the slut shaming is not justified. Was he forced into this? No. However, most posts, including yours, are 100% focused on the woman, because, of course, hello patriarchy and sexism! Women are all evil witches and all men are defenseless victims…give me a break!!

      • Jayna says:

        Huh? I couldn’t care less if she slept with him and once found out didn’t want it out there because she had some semblance of discreetness and class and didn’t go out selling her story and setting up pap shots right and left and trying to milk this for all its worth. BUT that’s not how she handled it. I can shame her every second because she is shamelessly selling stories and photos and leaking stuff right and left with her claim to fame, banging the boss. She thinks I’m interested in her being a fun girl and going to her high school graduation? LOL She’s a fame-ho. I stand by that.

        Ben, I think I’m pretty hard on Ben. Ben, a defenseless victim? That’s funny. I like Ben, but I’ve been very derogatory in my reaction to what he did to Jen and the kids with the nanny affair under her nose and his selfishness.

        I’m posting on a thread about the nanny and another one of her stories she has sold to a gossip rag.

      • Tiffany :) says:

        flaca, typically I’d agree with your points because patriarchy is oppressive and everywhere, but I think the nanny’s behavior after the story broke has been pretty tasteless and opportunistic. Add that to the fact that she was the kids’ nanny and how that might impact them, and it paints a picture of a pretty awful person. Acknowledging that she hasn’t made the best choices doesn’t mean Ben is off the hook. They both have made themselves look pretty terrible in this whole drama.

      • doofus says:

        I think you misinterpreted.

        no one is slut shaming anyone. people are shaming her because yes, she had sex…sex WITH THE FATHER OF THE KIDS SHE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE CARING FOR.

        that is an INCREDIBLE breach of trust, and THAT and her fame-ho behavior since is what she’s being shamed for.

        no one is exonerating Affleck at all.

    • KB says:

      hes got way too much money and power for this to be anything but a huge smokescreen. I’m starting to believe the heroin rumors. This chick could easily be paid off and shut up if that’s what he wanted. She’s either going along with it or being used. Like he couldn’t get her kicked out of that hotel he frequents? If she had incriminating evidence, her silence and anything else she had would’ve been bought already. So she’s either pregnant or a big red herring for whatever he’s really hiding.

      • anon33 says:

        I was JUST saying this to my coworker. NO WAY Ben-an oscar-winning A-lister-or whatever studio is behind B v. S doesnt have the power to shut this trick up by any means necessary. Something else is going on here.

      • WinnieCoopersMom says:

        Someone needs to get a hold of that bartender to see if she getting her drinks “virgin.” Oh the irony of ordering a virgin drink from the same place you conceived. LOL

      • kai says:

        Hm… Interesting. I’m enjoying this way more than I should.

  15. Itzblissy says:

    At first I thought this was just pr trying to give Ben cred as a player in preparation for Bruce Wayne but… It seems more like he’s just an idiot…

    • Zwella Ingrid says:

      What do you all think all this publicity will do for the movie? Help or hurt?

  16. frivolity says:

    “Oh, these privileged and entitled millennials!”, said the old lady waving her finger at the young generation. “No morals or ethics whatsoever. Just me me me!” (See Miles Teller for more evidence.)

    This one (i.e., the nanny) is not worth discussing anymore. Her fifteen minutes have long ago expired.

    But this Affleck/Garner divorce seems to be the gift that keeps on giving from a very cliched, gossip perspective, doesn’t it? Although most of what is/has been going on seems pretty damn transparent.

    What a shame for the children involved. I should stop my analysis/comments for their sake…

  17. meme says:

    wow, ben picked himself a real winner with this one.

  18. greenmonster says:

    I really don’t understand how someone could come up with the idea of a lawsuit. Just a sleazy lawyer (maybe the one Lohan had at one point) would take her case. A good lawyer would be laughing in her face until she leaves his office!
    She must get the hush money for something else because there is no reason to sue. She acknowledges the affair, so Garner had every right to fire her.

    • funcakes says:

      You are so right. It’s a shame there even has to be laws to protect the people that gives you CPR, pull you from a burning car or perform the Heimlich maneuver.
      Humanity is just full of scumbags.

    • Neah23 says:

      She suing anyone nor is she going to just like Ben is not going to sue US Weekly the word sue is just being thrown out there.

    • Izzy says:

      Gloria Allred, lawyer to the starf—ers, would totally take her case.

  19. Freddy Spaghetti says:

    I just picture Ben’s PR team throwing their hands up in the air and then blocking his phone and email.

  20. Talie says:

    Garner and Affleck stepped right in the crazy on this one.

  21. funcakes says:

    This is apart of his destructive personality. Don’t go to a discreet escort service,sleep with the woman you employed to look after your children and has to answer to your wife.

    He is screwed. If he leaves her high and dry she could go to the media. If he keeps paying for her new lifestyle she will constantly come back for more hand outs.

    This dude needs deep intensive psychotherapy before he destroys his relationship with his children. Thank God Jenn is their mother. The only smart move he made in his life.

  22. Triple Cardinal says:

    All she has to say is that Ben was her employer and he suggested sex between the two of them. The suggestion was welcomed and as such, Jen had no right to terminate employment. The poor performance evaluation was simply a pretext.

    She might be able to make a case, at least initially.

    • Pumpkin Pie says:

      Even if he initiated sex – she still has the choice to refuse sleeping with her employer.
      Jennifer has the right to terminate her employment. It’s a question of decency and character, then the potential to affect her marriage/children.

    • K says:

      But it’s an at-will state. Jen can fire at will as long as it’s not a firing due to a protected characteristic, can’t she?

  23. Cindy says:

    So if this is an example of ben’s poor judgement, how is it that he got through ten years of affairs without this happening? Or did it happen and Jennifer just covered for him?

    • Elisa the I. says:

      That’s a very good question. I totally expected other side-pieces to come forward with their stories after the nanny. Maybe they were paid off reaaaaaally well? Of course Blake Lively will keep her mouth shut, but the other rumored/not-rumored ones?

    • Gigi says:

      I think Jens “nagging” forced him to make smarter choices. Like starlets such as Blake who had a vested interest in keeping a pristine image so she can one day hawk curated artisinals on the internet

  24. N says:

    How did they or Jen employ her in the first place is beyond me.

    If I was Jen and if I knew my husband had a wandering eye, I’d hire someone he couldn’t get involved with ever!

    I trust my husband 100% but even I wouldn’t hire a good-looking nanny, just so I could have a piece of mind and my mind wouldn’t play tricks on me.

    • FingerBinger says:

      Maria Shriver probably thought the same thing when she hired Mildred. Hire an unattractive woman to avoid temptation. Arnold still had an affair.

  25. Who ARE these people? says:

    Good, because extortion and threats against the mother of your children are the foundation for a really healthy relationship. Good-hearted my…foot.

    • Liberty says:

      yup.

      I wonder if his legal team is busy sluicing out her background, her past, talking to her former nanny employers (Neil Patrick Harris), etc?

    • Christin says:

      She’s liked! She’s quirky! She’s a tad unhinged, but that just adds to the allure!

  26. lolavie says:

    Gorgeous guy, hideous everything.

    Asswipe…

  27. jen2 says:

    OK, she is just nuts!! This is not thirst, it is pure insanity. Ben needs to write a check for seven figures or more to make her go away as she has no shame or common sense.

    Dude needs to have his jump offs sign NDAs as this is a major, major mess. What is her goal?!?! I just don’t get it.

    • Jayna says:

      I agree. Ben stop putting your head in the sand. Pay her a big lump sum, have her sign a NDA, and move on. She’s not going away. You can’t contain it. She will give an interview and hurt your wife and kids even more with her trash out there and damage your credibility even more. Just pay already.

      • Red says:

        I dont think Ben cares about protecting his kids or his wife. Maybe if he thought it could harm his career…..

    • Sunsetsnow says:

      Maybe you got it. Money might be her goal. She wants him to pay up for her to shut up. It might be his only option.

  28. Furimika says:

    I thought it was a tabloid covering it. If this report is true then I feel sorry for him. This ‘woman’ is completely immoral, attention seeking, pschyotic and delusional.

    It would have been cheaper (and less destructive to himself and his family) to hire some people to get her out of the way before she went public. I’m sure there were warning threats. This stuff only happens to nice people who allow looneys to take advantage of them because they’re not prepared to play dirty.

    • The Original G says:

      Well, Ben is not a nice person. I do think it’s likely that he didn’t fess up to his own lawyers, who could have cleaned this up. He’s not as smart as he thought.

      • Furimika says:

        My point was if he wasn’t a nice enough person he would have had her intimidated or hidden in silence. A professional hitman is cheaper than this, he wouldn’t have to go that far though, there are so many options to deal with idiots if you’re prepared to do what works. He is nice. Too nice. So is his wife. Otherwise we wouldn’t be reading about this bunny boiler.

    • meh says:

      I’m wondering if they weren’t able to offer her enough to “get her out of the way” because she is a nut job, and what she wants is not money, but for Ben Affleck to be in love with her.

    • anon33 says:

      Oh, honey. No one in Hollywood is “nice.” No one.

      • frivolity says:

        Hahaha! Right?

        You’ve got to remember, there’s real people nice and there’s Hollywood “nice” – which really isn’t.

    • WinnieCoopersMom says:

      They needed Olivia Pope with this one.

      • Red says:

        Lol. You just know Shonda is going to turn this into an episode. And its so crazy that it will seem farfetched and unrealistic even for Scandal.

  29. Enabling says:

    Those photos of her showing up at his bungalow in July could also be interpreted as her just delivering the “goods” to him. That didn’t look like champagne to me. It looked like a big ole bottle of straight up booze. He’s know to have a problem with substance abuse (as did his father before him), so she’s looks like she is just a huge enabler. At 28 she would know better. That’s how skanks ingratiate themselves into a troubled person’s life–enabling. It’s an old story. A friend’s husband went down the tubes and died because he left her for a woman who helped him drink himself to death.

    • MrsBPitt says:

      I agree…those photos in and of themselves are not evidence of a sexual relationship. He may have asked her to bring him something from Jen’s house and she set up the photographers…they didn’t hug, they didn’t kiss…I don’t see any pics of her going into his house…it’s just her saying she went in and stayed two hours…no pics of her leaving later….I think this chick is a nutjob! I’m not saying nothing happened between them, but I think the nanny thinking they are in love and might get married leads me to believe she is cuckoo for cocoa puffs!!!!!!

    • wow says:

      Yeah, no. He should know better at 42. Contrary to the much repeated opinion here, men are not helpless little children. If a guy chooses to nurse his addiction that’s his choice and no one else’s. This is 2015 and people don’t own people.

  30. ann says:

    How much would she get if she sued and won? I mean is it worth supporting her lazy butt , and for how long?

  31. Jessica says:

    I feel like I’m missing something. When they announced they were divorcing, both Jen & Ben’s camps were saying they’d already been separated 10 months. Now that’s pretty obviously a lie or at least half truth, but still, they were united on that piece of information.

    It seems this relationship with the nanny started recently, like within the last couple of months, (maybe more like the last 6 weeks?), when they were actually, truly separated. So why is this playing out like an affair took place? Jen’s PR is saying out of one side of their mouths that this is what ended the marriage, while at the same time saying Jen didn’t even know until after they announced they were divorcing. It can’t be both.

    I get that hooking up with the nanny is poor behavior (though not rare behavior), and I have no doubt that Ben has cheated dozens of times during his marriage, but this particular relationship took place after he and Jen had ended things. So why the fuss? Why the sob story coming from Jen’s side. If they have actually been separated for 10 months, it’s not remotely surprising he’s been seeing other people (most people start dating again whilst separated), and while he certainly could have chosen better, I’m not quite understanding the outrage and pearl clutching?

    A couple of weeks ago it was all, ‘it’s been over for almost a year’, now suddenly it’s ‘the marriage ended because I just found out he was screwing the nanny’. I’m just not buying it. Either the marriage was over and there’s nothing to see here except a starf#$%^% enjoying her 15mins, or they were totally lying about the timeline and Jen was under the impression they were going to reconcile? Either way there’s so much media manipulation going on here it’s crazy.

    If anything about their original statement’s about their divorce was true, then the easiest way to make this woman go away is to reiterate that. “We’ve been separated a while, we’ve both moved on, nothing to see here”. Playing like this has been some terrible betrayal is what’s making this such a huge story. So I have to think this is what Jen’s team wants. Because if she wanted to minimise the damage and exposure all she has to do is say what she’s already said, that they were separated for 10 months, thus no one has cheated.

    • Jayna says:

      Jen’s camp never said ten months. They said more like several months.

    • The Original G says:

      Uh, cause the nanny was supposed to be looking after the kids, not the baby daddy? She slimed her way past a pretty universal professional boundry in front of Jen’s face.

      • Jessica says:

        As I said, hooking up with the nanny is a crap thing to do. But that’s just a piece of the narrative at play here. The main focus seems to be the idea Ben was having an affair with this woman and now there’s no chance of reconciliation, when if you go by what they were saying a few weeks ago this relationship must have started after Jen and Ben had been separated a while and Jen own camp was saying just a few days ago that she didn’t even know about it until after they announced the divorce.

        I’m not trying to defend Ben, I’ve always thought he was a gigantic douchebag, I’m just not understanding all the conflicting stories. It feels like someone’s trying to rewrite extremely recent history.

      • Red says:

        Before the a divorce is actually decreed theres always hope for reconciliation. Having said that, I dont think anybody was actually hoping this for Ben and Jen. Even before Nannygate, we thought this was an unhealthy relationship between a man who treats his wife terribly and the wife who just sits and takes it.

    • Bridget says:

      I said something similar on the other Affleck/Garner thread from this morning. Garner’s playing this like the affair with the nanny is what broke up their marriage. It feels like this was the spaghetti strand that stuck to the wall. Though at least no one’s talking about a drug addiction any more?

      Personally, I think Garner was hamstrung by what she could say about why they’re breaking up, out of decency/respect for her kids’ father/necessity.

      **and just in case, I’m still noting that broken up or not, it is gross to hook up with your kids’ nanny.

    • Ana says:

      Because Ben is still technically married and they just announced their separation and his affair with the nanny got reavelead soon after that. He kept wearing that damn wedding ring but having an affair with the nanny of his kids.

    • Zwella Ingrid says:

      @ Jessica, This just proves there is more to this than meets the eye, or they would have taken the “there is nothing to see here” tactic, right? Either that, or everyone is just making incredibly bad decisions by making up narratives—repeatedly which is making everything worse.

  32. OhDear says:

    * awaits Affleck’s announcement that he’s going to rehab *

  33. The Original G says:

    This guy doesn’t even know how to make a pay-off. LOL

    • Red says:

      No wonder his wife had to micromanage him, look what happens when she is not holding the reigns. Jen could have shut this down before it even came out if she had been allowed.

  34. Liberty says:

    haha – a friend just texted me about this story and the photos: “Look at all the empty sun chairs! Every man in the place saw her stalk over, got up and ran.”

  35. Ronda says:

    I dont think its about actuallly winning a lawsuit but basically blackmailing them into a settlement? Would that be possible? I mean both Ben and Jen want this to get out of the news and if she sues they know she cant win it legally but it would give more attention to her and more damage to them so they would probably be willing to give her some money to go away.

    • The Original G says:

      Totally. Plus it’s more fun for us.

    • Zwella Ingrid says:

      I think this is very likely.

    • Lady D says:

      I’d leave her twisting in the wind myself.

    • laura in LA says:

      She seems content to sit on her lazy *ss at the Bel-Air for the rest of the summer and for who knows how much longer until she gets what she wants…

      So what’s her endgame in all of this? She’s so far threatened to sue for wrongful termination, but I don’t think she has a case because if she did, Gloria Allred would’ve spoken up already.

      And why haven’t Ben’s lawyers taken legal action against her for violating the terms of the NDA? My guess is that they want to keep her at the hotel and keep her talking because pretty soon, she’ll slip up and say something she shouldn’t.

      With all the power he has at his disposal, and supposedly being so smart himself, they must be playing her for what she is, a common Hollywood grifter and con-artist.

  36. The Original G says:

    Where’s Ray Donovan when you need him?

  37. Maybe Jen ‘s prayer is Christine.

  38. Pamela says:

    Wouldn’t it be amazing if it turned out he really didn’t sleep with her?

    It isn’t that I don’t think he’s a dog. And it isn’t that I don’t think he would be arrogant enough to think he could get away with it.

    But so far, we don’t have definitive proof. And he still contends he didn’t (which 99.9% of cheaters do until the sex tape shows up, I get it)

    I think it is way more plausible that he DID. But here we have a woman who doesn’t seem to be even remotely trustworthy, some pap pics of a rendevous that do NOT show her going into or leaving the house. It is unlikely, BUT totally possible that this is all a shake down designed by her. If that was the case, how amazingly juicy!

    It is far more likely that she has more damaging evidence that she will continue to release bit by bit–in order to draw her celeb time as long as possible.

  39. Ana says:

    On twitter today, one guy disclosed that they moved Ben around one time with another woman.

    There is also a nanny hate page now on Facebook .

  40. Lara Morgana says:

    Wow. What a fame whore.

  41. lowercaselois says:

    I guess next Bravo will give her a reality TV series to be in.

  42. Pandy says:

    Her mother must be so proud! This is fun but I do feel sorry for Jennifer and the kids.

  43. Iknowwhatboyslike says:

    What an idiot. Even if being a famewhore is her game, doesn’t she realize how over-exposed she’s been. We only found out about this chick last week and already I’m over it. She should have laid low after we saw those pictures of her in those tragic jeans and that belt. Now, I am sick of her. For her 15 minutes to extend, she better cough up some receipts. I want text messages, emails, what he said, what he wore. I want details!! If she has nothing, then she needs to step to the left.

  44. oldsoul13 says:

    It’s like Gone Girl come to life. Karma police don’t disappoint, do they?

    • Zwella Ingrid says:

      I’m just relishing realizing that Neil Patrick Harris figures in both reality and the movie as well. (Supposedly one of Nanny’s former clients)

      • oldsoul13 says:

        No! You connected the dots… I didn’t even remember that little detail. Good one!
        And I thought I was clever seeing the parallels… then humbled when I realized Bedhead beat me to the punch. I’m always late to the party. Nanny is no Amazing Amy, but he didn’t have his feelers out. Nanny didn’t even need to be so smart and calculating, she just needed Ben to take his eyes off the ball. Not a hard one to pull off, especially when he’s deep in his addiction. It dulls anyone’s powers of observation. Even this easy nanny’s cheap tricks.

  45. Christin says:

    Does anyone know if taking candids of strangers or pap photos are allowed at this hotel? I thought the place was known for privacy.

    Surprising that they haven’t clamped down on this ‘poolside bikini photo shoot’ nonsense.

  46. NGBoston says:

    if this is true— isnt this actually blackmail? so what if she sues— he is stuck bankrolling the Starf*cker?

    AgAin, not condoning Ben’s poor choice but this Nanny is beyond Douche-tastic.

    When are her 15 minutes going to be over?

    Can’t happen soon enough.

  47. Corrie says:

    Everyone can act like this is Jen’s fault, she was the awful controlling monster of a wife. Jen was too hard on Ben, Jen controlled her image enough to destroy her marriage and Jen was the horrible svengali pushing him into the arms of another woman all you want. But this screams of “Its exactly what it is” – Ben is a douche and didn’t care about anyone or anything. Which leads to several nanny’s and extra-marital affairs. Alls we do know, is Ben was messy before Jen, during and after. After we stop blaming Jen for bringing this on herself, who will you blame. Ben maybe?

  48. chaine says:

    Horrible posture. in a few more years, she is going to be one of those deformed-from-texting casualties that the Daily Mail keeps warning us about.

  49. My Two Cents says:

    This girl has already got way more attention than she deserved. Our society is so screwed up that we are giving her exactly what she wants. 15 minutes…a year from now people will be going what was that girl’s name that screwed Ben…what was his name again? Lol

  50. Jayna says:

    Back in the golden days of Hollywood, they had movie stars Liz Taylor and Richard Burton in all their blaze of infidelity and grand love affair and jewels.

    We have Ben Affleck and a nanny, with said ex-nanny being put up at Hotel Bel-Air setting up her own leaks and pap shots while Ben hides out out of state.

  51. Ellie says:

    She may have at least enough of a legal case to get to court (or arbitration). Not clear she would win but she might.

    The comments on at-will employment don’t apply. You have a right to end employment for any reason EXCEPT a small number of legally protected ones. Sexual harassment, gender discrimination or (most importantly) RETALIATION would supersede any at-will rules.

  52. JenniferJustice says:

    I am tired of this theory that being holed up in hotel is a life of extravagance. So she’s surrounded by poshness. Who cares? She’s still stranded at a hotel, doesn’t have her own place, doesn’t seem to have her own car, and now we know any money she has right now is coming from Ben. How is that the lap of luxury. Shopping gets old, she can’t leave or Ben will cut her off. I’m guessing she’s actually pretty lonely and unhappy behind the curtains. I certainly hope so. That saying, “don’t wish too hard….” Well, she got what she wanted and it isn’t all cupcakes and roses. It’s actually the life of someone who gets shamed if they go out in public, completely dependend on a dweeb with a wandering dong, and now no prospects for nanny gigs and no skills for anything else. Karma is looming and me thinks this girl can pretend she’s happy all she wants. She and Affleck deserve each other – misery begets misery.

    • WinnieCoopersMom says:

      Well yeah you are prob right..though drinking by the pool does look like a better scene than sitting in an office, in front of pc screen, sober lol ..but yeah, this “life” will wear out quickly. Thats why stars have such issues, sitting around gets boring and if you go too long between a project, it’s easy to see how drinking/drug problems arise, esp when you consider all the surrounding enablers….

  53. anne_000 says:

    I don’t know if any of these stories about the nanny are true or not, but if any of it is true, then I’m Team Nanny in so far as what she’s doing after the affair – not for the affair itself though.

    I think it’s funny when cheating goes all wrong. And the crazier the jump off is, the funnier it gets.

  54. Laura says:

    This is great gossip considering how well planned it seemed to be. But all of this, plus what we know about Afflecks history with gambling and booze, just makes me wonder why the hell Garner was so keen to make this marriage work for so long in the first place. Yes they have kids, I get that, but she must’ve kept on accepting his behaviour over and over again. Where was her self-respect in all of this? Surely you wouldn’t want your kids to be more damaged by living in that kind of environment?

    I’m definitely not saying she is responsible for his behaviour at all, he is a major major douche, but I can’t help but think she covered up for his major douchery too long.

  55. Sweetpotato says:

    I have no idea why nobody is advising him to go the David Letterman way:
    1. Responsibility, 2. Remorse, 3. Intolerant of threats to him/his family.

    Seriously, if he showed one iota of truth and regret, he would bounce back swiftly.

    I think Affleck’s trouble is that his obsession with his image gets in the way of his actual image. See also: PBS debacle.

    • ann says:

      Because he wants to keep doing what he’s been doing. You can’t show remorse and then keep living like Hugh Hefner.

    • Titimo says:

      Exactly. If he would own his faults, people would accept him in spite of them. We’re all infallible, that’s our humanity, his problem is his obsession with appearing perfect when he blatantly isn’t. People judge him according to the standard he pretends to be.

  56. kai says:

    Just wanted to say that I appreciate the picture of Affleck you selected. It’s PERFECT for this story.

  57. Vampi says:

    My theory?
    Nanny travels with Ben, sans Jen, to the charity poker tournament in Vegas.
    Ben gets wasted and Nanny sees/takes pics of and/or participates in some form of debauchery that could really hurt Ben.
    Now Ben is trying to make sure that what happened in Vegas, stays in Vegas.

    Seems to me it’s after that little jaunt that the feces hit the spinning blades.

    • ellen says:

      I agree with you. The whole bankrolling her to protect Jen is just part of his PR team’s bullsh&t strategy. I bet the nanny’s got something big on him, on video, and that’s why Ben is bending over backwards. I don’t like what the nanny did, and I do feel bad for Jen and the kids, but I hope the nanny puts Ben through the wringer. I like to think of it as karma for the whole nagging wife narrative his PR released.

  58. SillySimone says:

    You know, I have a nagging feeling that all of his shut-up-ho money is going to her PR team to try to spin her a career out of this. I think her people are behind the Page Six story, not his.

  59. Eru says:

    Ben you idiot. This is just too funny. And even funnier is the way that everyone take it so seriously. Like “Oh my God, that A-lister cheated, end of the world. How is wife coping, what mistress thinking”.

    This is just so idiotic. That whole Hollywood bubble is ridiculous. I really dont care. Not about her, Ben, Jennifer. They are rich multimillioners. They will be fine, sitting in their big homes, counting money, going on vacation anywhere they want.

  60. Jayna says:

    This is the best snark I’ve read. Its off of Dlisted. It cracked me up.

    “I’ve written about Christine the Nanny way too many times and even I couldn’t ID her if she was the only one in the room and was wearing a stick-on name tag that read, “Hello My Name Is… Christine the Nanny.” But somehow, “guests” at the Hotel Bel-Air keep recognizing her and have taken sneaky pictures of her in a bikini by the pool. Christine in a bikini popped up in Star Magazine and now she’s in this week’s In Touch Weekly.”

    “Oh yes, the “nitpicking, nagging bitch of a wife drives the poor husband into the arms of a younger, sweeter piece” storyline. It’s been said a zillion times before, but this really is a bizarro world Gone Girl. If Jennifer Garner disappears, Neil Patrick Harris should move to a safe house.”

    “If Ben is trying to keep Christine the Nanny quiet, it’s really, really not working. Ben should think about dropping a mountain of “go away and shush” money on her before she holds a press conference where she’ll collapse halfway through, grab her belly and say, “I hope the baby is okay.”

    “Here’s a couple more pictures of Christine the Nanny “hiding out” at the Hotel Bel-Air.”

    • laura in LA says:

      DListed’s take on this is hilarious!

      “Ben is just friendly and sometimes people take that as him being flirty. Some people greet their nanny with a handshake while Ben might’ve greeted his nanny by shaking her coochie with his d*ck. It’s just him being extra friendly, okay!”

      Then there’s this…

      “The source says that a side piece wasn’t the reason why Ben and Jen ended it. It was all Jen’s fault. She just kept poking and nagging him.”

      Again, with “the source”! You know, this reminds me of that LA-area 70s cult of the same name, but I don’t think even that ever reached levels of crazy manipulation like this.

      And if Ben keeps paying for this chick, soon enough everyone’s going to be “poking and nagging him” to get his sh*t together pretty quick.

    • Ming says:

      @Jayna And Laura in LA OMG MK at Dlisted is so totally hilarious, just like one of his previous post the other day about “Ben is serving up excited velociraptor face. ” I cannot stop laughing. My Jurassic Park rerun would be never be same again!
      http://dlisted.com/2015/08/05/oh-the-nanny-is-good/

      • Jayna says:

        @Laura and Ming, thanks. I hadn’t seen these. Too funny.

        I’m loving his snarky blow-by-blow of Nannygate.

  61. laura in LA says:

    If only Charlie Sheen would talk some sense into Ben again…

    Has it really come to this?

  62. DodieTn says:

    Since she worked for NPH, could she have met Ben on set of Gone Girl bringing Neil’s kids to see him….then she could have been seeing him a while ……Left Neil’s employment, Jen hired her because Neil gave her good references…..and that could have been the straw….I actually think Jen is glad he is gone and I think Ben is mad he doesn’t have a clean up girl anymore. He is an alcoholic they can be very manipulative and he seems like a major ass.

  63. laura in LA says:

    Oh dear God, will someone please shut this b*tch up?!

    Is there anyone who doesn’t believe that she herself is the “source” when we have such gems as this:

    “She’s not the kind of girl who sleeps with someone once and is like, ‘We’re in love.’ She’s not like Isla Fisher in “Wedding Crashers” — she’s no stage-five clinger,” notes the source, who says Affleck and Ouzounian’s relationship is still very much going on.

    “She’s a guys’ girl in a way, but also very sweet — the opposite of Jen (Garner), basically,” said the insider. “She’s the kind of girl who wants to go get drinks and then watch sports and likes to party. She’s really sarcastic.” The source adds that, according to Ouzounian, “They are certainly still boning.”

    EWWW! Who honestly says this kind of sh*t?!

    So she’s trying to be the Cool Girl, except it’s obvious she doesn’t get it, that Gillian Flynn was debunking women who try too hard like this.

    • Ming says:

      LOL, this girl is gullible that what makes her perfect candidate for this whole fiasco. With the multi billion dollars franchise lies on Ben Affleck’s shoulders I don’t think WB will going to risk any publicity if Ben goes back to rehab (publicly). This girl is a perfect diversion, (she is still not talking, aside from sources here and there) once the public sinked it’s fang to the nanny gate scandal, Ben can go back to rehab without the the public knowledge. “Nobody give a sh*t about Ben Affleck whereabouts he is dbag anyway suffering a mid-life crisis, let focus to ex-nanny instead is she pregnant?” etc. etc

      We no longer be surprise if once and for all Ben and Jen will going to joined forces again to discredit the nanny’s story. If we notice the PR narrative both camps were releasing is too predictable and obvious that they covering-up something BIG.!

    • Christin says:

      The ‘source’ likely has a name that rhymes with pristine (LOL). And the bikini photos are likely taken by a guest who just happens to know the ‘pristine’ one.

      I imagine she and a buddy or two in the room or by the pool, giggling and concocting the next round of BS. And my guess is that she is reading every single word and comment about herself.

  64. Veronica says:

    If this divorce taught us anything, it made it very clear who was the PR strategist in the marriage and who was the f*cking idiot.

    • Jayna says:

      Well, it looks like the idiots are running the asylum (Ben and the nanny). Jen has lost control.

    • aga says:

      Yes, now we know who was behind the wheel of the PR of the most fake Hollywood family of the last decade. And it’s what I hate – lying and treating the public as completely idiots.

  65. Scout says:

    Haha, love the last photo you inserted for this post, the one of Ben looking very tense at some awards show. Haha. The nanny is out of control, but that’s karma for you acting like a douche, Ben.

    (Note: they would have had her sign an ironclad confidentiality contract before letting her come anywhere near the family home, but she’s probably had advice that this roll of the die was a good play as Garner and Affleck are unlikely to take her to court because they wouldn’t want to fan the flames.)

  66. JoanEleanor says:

    Soooo…. these days we give a TV show to sex tape famewh*re and a magazine feature to the starf*ckers. Huh.

    I don’t understand why some people insist on having affairs while they’re in a relationship with someone else. If you’re unhappy with the state of your relationship, get out of it before getting your jiggy with another person. Especially when there are kids involved.

  67. AnotherDirtyMartini says:

    I say Ben should cut her off financially and let her sue. Oh yeah, nanny – have fun with your wrongful termination lawsuit. I had an excellent case and eventually won, but it was a lot of work and three years of hellish litigation. I would be shocked if her case even made it past summary judgment. It doesn’t hold water. She deserved to be terminated.