Report: Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner engaged

NEW YORK (AP) _ Call it Bennifer: Part Deux. <br/><br/>Nine months after they started dating, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner are engaged, People and Star magazine are reporting. <br/><br/>Citing a ``close

Thursday, April 21st 2005, 12:18 pm

By: News On 6

NEW YORK (AP) _ Call it Bennifer: Part Deux.

Nine months after they started dating, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner are engaged, People and Star magazine are reporting.

Citing a ``close friend'' of Affleck's, People says the ``Pearl Harbor'' actor has been privately spreading the news. A friend of Garner's told the magazine in February that she expected Affleck to propose.

Affleck's publicist, Ken Sunshine, would not comment on the reports. A call to Garner's rep was not returned.

As you may have heard, Affleck got engaged to Jennifer Lopez in 2002, but they called it off in January 2004. As opposed to the ridiculous amount of publicity Affleck got with J.Lo, he and Garner have stayed on the down low.

They met while shooting the action flick ``Daredevil,'' but didn't begin dating until 2004. Their lone public appearance together has been a trip to the 2004 World Series in Boston.

The marriage would be Garner's second. The 33-year-old ``Alias'' star was divorced from actor Scott Foley in March 2004.