Jennifer Lopez’s Vegas residency in jeopardy: sources

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(NewsNation) — Jennifer Lopez’s no good, very bad year continues unabated. 

This week it was reported that J.Lo’s Vegas residency, worth a whopping $90 million, is in jeopardy due to her album flopping and lagging tour sales.

According to the New York Post, Lopez “had been in talks with MGM Grand on a guaranteed $1 million a show for 90 dates starting next year. But casino executives have lately grown skittish over abysmal ticket sales for her first tour in five years following the release of her ‘This is Me … Now’ album in February — with poor demand having forced the cancellation of seven shows this summer.”

My insider in Vegas confirmed, “Yep. sounds about right.” 

It wouldn’t have been the first time Lopez has done a residency in Vegas. 

From 2016 to 2018, Lopez performed at Planet Hollywood with her show “All I Have” which sold out regularly and grossed $102 million — earning her $350,000 a show. 

“Jennifer’s ‘All I Have’ run was one of the biggest residences ever in Las Vegas,” a source told the Mirror in February. “But MGM have come in to get this new show to the Park Theater. The talks are ongoing with a real hope that she will be signed up and announced later this year.” 

Sadly, Lopez didn’t sign on the dotted line when MGM offered her the gargantuan deal.

My source said, “If she hadn’t been so slow to sign, they would have had to stick to the deal and there wouldn’t have been anything they could do except maybe trim back the number of shows.”

As of now, “discussions are continuing,” but with a major haircut on the pay. If she does Vegas now, she would likely only get $500,000 – $600,000 per show and the run would be limited. 

The only bright side to Lopez not doing Vegas is that her husband Ben Affleck is a recovering gambling addict — and she could end up like Celine Dion, whose husband would gamble away $1 million a week during her 16-year residency at Caesar’s Palace.

But it wouldn’t be the first time MGM hired someone and recouped their pay at the gambling table. As I reported earlier this year, Bruno Mars (who actually makes the $90 million per year Lopez wanted) has lost heavily at the casino, dropping at least $50 million. 

Meanwhile, back in Los Angeles, Lopez and Affleck — while still not ready to pull the divorce trigger — are living apart.

Affleck was recently seen at his daughter’s graduation without Lopez, and Lopez had to suffer yet another humiliation alone when her Netflix movie “Atlas” was panned and mocked by critics. 

So far this year alone, Lopez has had to endure:

• February 16: “This is Me… Now” debuts alongside her accompanying documentary “The Greatest Love Story Never Told” (which follows her love story with Ben Affleck), and a “companion” musical film “This Is Me Now… A Love Story.” All of which flopped and the album is Lopez’s worst performing ever. 
• March 13: Seven cities were canceled from her “This Is Me…Now” tour due to poor sales.
• April 2: With lagging sales, Lopez’s tour is rebranded as “This Is Me… Live,” featuring her greatest hits instead of the treacly love songs from her latest album.
• April 11: Lopez goes back to work filming “Kiss of the Spider Woman” while Affleck leaves for Los Angeles.
• May 6: Lopez co-chaired the annual Met Gala and showed up alone after Affleck refused to attend (Claiming he was filming in L.A.). On what was supposed to be a glorious homecoming for Lopez, she appeared gaunt and furious, snapping at reporters on the red carpet.
• May 12: Lopez spent Mothers Day 5,643 miles away from Affleck in Paris with her daughter Emme while Affleck was hanging out with his children in L.A. next to his ex-wife, Jennifer Garner.
• May 15: Lopez spotted house hunting with her producer Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas despite Lopez and Affleck dropping $60 million in cash for a Beverly Hills mansion last June
• May 24: Lopez’s Netflix movie “Atlas” premieres and is panned. 
• May 28: Affleck attends his daughter Violet’s graduation without Lopez.
• May 29: It’s reported her $90 million deal with MGM in Las Vegas is kaput.

And the biggest shame is that she has had to endure all these troubling times alone, without her husband’s support. 

“This is shaping up to be her worst year ever,” another source told me.

Lopez’s rep didn’t return emails for comment.