NEW YORK — People magazine and Us Weekly have duelling Ben Affleck-Jennifer Lopez stories on their covers this week. Both are reporting, according to anonymous "pals" and "close sources," that the two are an item.

People's Aug. 12 issue quotes sources who say the singer-actress began introducing Affleck to friends as her boyfriend three days before she and her second husband, dancer Cris Judd, filed for divorce last month. She and Judd had been married for 10 months.

Us boasts in its Aug. 12 issue that it has exclusive photos of the couple, and quotes friends who say they aren't hiding their relationship.

Affleck, 29, and Lopez, 32, got to know each other last winter on the set of the movie Gigli, which is scheduled to come out next year.

Afterward, Affleck took out ads in Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, praising Lopez for her "graciousness of spirit, beauty in courage, great empathy, astonishing talent, real poise and true grace." That sparked rumours that the two were dating, which both denied.