J.Lo, Affleck still partners — in trying to sell $60M mansion

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are divorced, but they’re still partners in a Beverly Hills mansion they barely lived in.

The former couple just dropped the asking price on the 38,000-square-foot estate from $68 million to just under $60 million — nearly $1 million less than what they paid for it two years ago when they were married and thought they needed room for the five kids they share with previous partners.

The star-crossed couple took out a $20 million mortgage, said Marilyn Chinitz, a top matrimonial lawyer with Blank Rome LLP.

Chinitz — whose clients have included Tom Cruise, Wendy Williams and Michael Douglas — said the empty estate could be costing the couple about $3 million a year.

“Nobody wanted it at $68 million. He wanted to lower the asking price. She finally agreed,” Chinitz told me. “This was the marital home, but the marriage is over.”

Affleck bought a much smaller $20 million home in Brentwood, while Lopez purchased an $18 million property in nearby Hidden Hills.

Affleck never liked the immense mansion in Beverly Hills.

Chinitz said, “Having it sit on the market, they likely have incurred several million dollars in expenses. He finally convinced her they are best off just lowering the price and getting rid of it.”

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Ilyasah Shabazz, the daughter of Malcolm X, went to the Met Gala for the first time wearing a black-and-white Fear of God suit designed by Jerry Lorenzo.

Introduced to Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour, who runs the gala, Shabazz said, “She looked me up and down and said, ‘Fabulous!’”

The Ultimate Diamonds ice on her wrists and dangling from her ears helped. “I had to give them back,” she said with a sigh.

With the theme this year being “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,” Shabazz was a natural to attend the event for the first time.

“My father was a dandy,” she said. “He wore a zoot suit when he was 15.”

When he became a Muslim in his 20s, Malcolm adopted X to symbolize his unknown African ancestral surname while discarding “the white slave master name of ‘Little.’”

He was known for his crisp white shirts, skinny ties and his horn-rimmed glasses. “Everyone is copying the glasses,” said Shabazz, who was there in the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem the night her father was assassinated. She was 2.

The site on Broadway at 165th St. is now the Shabazz Center, where Malcolm X’s 100th birthday will be celebrated on May 19.

“There is a spirit in that space that is so special. People from around the world come in and start crying,” Shabazz said.

“My mother [Betty Shabazz] always said, ‘Find the good and praise it.’ She never spoke about seeing my father gunned down. She raised us in a bubble of love.”

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Jude Law is in Riga, Latvia filming “The Wizard of the Kremlin” with Alicia Vikander, Paul Dano and Zach Galifianakis.

Thanks to the magic of movie makeup, the former star of “The Talented Mr. Ripley” has become a perfect doppelgänger of Vladimir Putin.

The film opens in Russia in the early 1990s after the collapse of the USSR, and follows Putin’s rise to power.

Thomas Pierce, one of the film’s executive producers, says that Law’s performance is already generating awards buzz by those who have seen early footage.

The producer, the founder of the Children’s Oncology Support Fund (COSF), is headed to France for the Cannes Film Festival, which kicks off with a screening of “The Phoenician Scheme” with Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks and Bill Murray on May 13.

Pierce will host a party for COSF at The Martinez Hotel on May 18. Joining him will be “Emily in Paris” star William Abadie and former model-turned-philanthropist Keni Silva, who will be with her boyfriend, Mohamed Hadid, the father of Gigi and Bella Hadid.

Pierce, a rising Hollywood power player, was also an executive producer of “The Brutalist,” which won three Oscars, including a Best Actor statue for Adrien Brody.

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Brooke Shields and her 19-year-old daughter Grier Henchy joined Audrey Gruss, the founder of the Hope for Depression Research Foundation, at the organization’s Annual Teen Race of Hope to Defeat Depression last spring. They’ve been invited back to this year’s race on May 18.

Nearly 500 supporters will gather at Pier 76 at Hudson River Park for the 5K walk/race. To sign up go to: hopefordepression.org.

Gruss said, “Suicide is the second leading cause of death for kids ages 15 to 19; and almost 4,000 children and teens attempt suicide every day.”

Shields, a depression advocate, added, “I was forced to suffer silently, which is what a majority of people do. That’s where the real human tragedy comes from.”

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Ever since Mayor Eric Adams checked out the new Italian eatery La Piazza on E. 49th St., the hotspot’s power lunch has been jumping.

Lobbyist Robert McBride, who just sold his house in Montauk for over $10 million to Carbone’s chef Rich Torrisi, has been holding court there with political bigwigs. McBride represents Propel NY, Eversource, Transdev, Culligan and Conifer Realty, and has offices in Albany and Washington, D.C.

Top attorney Arthur Aidala, who represented 50 Cent and Lawrence Taylor, and whose Fifth Ave. office is two blocks away, has been popping by for dinner after his daily 6 p.m. radio show, “The Arthur Aidala Power Hour” on AM 970.

Designer Julia Haart was seen showing off her new shapewear line, Body by Julia, to pals on her phone while at the restaurant.

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Priyanka Chopra hit the Met Gala wearing Bulgari’s monumental Magnus Necklace, featuring a 242-carat emerald nestled in her cleavage, with her husband Nick Jonas by her side.

Anne Hathaway dazzled in the jeweler’s Cosmic Vault Necklace, featuring a 123-carat sapphire — prices on request, snipped the jeweler’s reps.

Bulgari’s new Polychroma high jewelry collection will debut in Taormina, Sicily, on May 19.

Those seeking a little sparkle of their own stateside can choose from Met-worthy options at M.S. Rau in New Orleans, including a pair of diamond and sapphire earrings from Cartier for $2.25 million and a sapphire and diamond ring for $1.2 million.

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Katie Holmes and her daughter Suri Cruise — now a 19-year-old student at Carnegie Mellon University — had an intimate mother-daughter dinner May 2 at Grand Brasserie, located at Grand Central Station’s iconic Vanderbilt Hall. The two ordered the croque monsieur, gratin de macaroni and a side of fries.

Tom Cruise, who reportedly hasn’t seen his daughter in 11 years, has been partying in Europe with actress Ana de Armas.

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Arty Dozortsev sprang into action a week ago Friday when a driver roared down a walking path by the Hudson River at Chelsea Piers and clipped a young mother pushing a stroller.

Dozortsev, the co-owner of IKRAA caviar and Dozortsev & Sons Wine Imports, blocked the door and held the man in his car for 20 minutes until police arrived.

Arty, who grew up in Brooklyn, told me, “I was brought up to do the right thing when folks around me do the wrong thing.”

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Out & About: Alan Alda, Tina Fey, Mark Kostabi, Park West Gallery’s John Block and producer Steve Garrin at the Paris Theater for a screening of “The Four Seasons,” the film on which the new Netflix series of the same name is based.