{"id":289853,"date":"2020-03-23T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1133524"},"modified":"2020-03-23T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T18:00:00","slug":"jennifer-lopezs-ex-boyfriend-david-cruz-dead-at-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/jennifer-lopezs-ex-boyfriend-david-cruz-dead-at-51\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Lopez&#8217;s Ex-Boyfriend David Cruz Dead at 51"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"40.622914349277\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2020223\/rs_634x1024-200323102541-634-jlo-exbf-gj-3-23-20.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Jennifer Lopez, David Cruz\" alt=\"Jennifer Lopez, David Cruz\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Ron Galella\/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"20.528925619835\">\n<p><strong>David Cruz<\/strong>&nbsp;has passed away.<\/p>\n<p>The New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner confirmed to E! News that&nbsp;Cruz died on Saturday at the age of 51.&nbsp;According to multiple reports, he passed away at the Mount Sinai West Hospital in New York. The medical examiner also confirmed that the cause of death was heart disease.<\/p>\n<p>During his lifetime, Cruz formed a relationship with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/jennifer_lopez\">Jennifer Lopez<\/a><\/strong>. The pair were reportedly high school sweethearts and started dating when she was just 15 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz and Lopez were together for about a decade before they called it quits in the &#8217;90s, just as her career started to rise to a new level.<\/p>\n<p>The actress and singer went on to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1022508\/fifth-time-s-the-charm-why-jennifer-lopez-s-engagement-to-alex-rodriguez-could-only-happen-at-this-point-in-her-life\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">marry<\/a> <strong>Ojani Noa<\/strong>&nbsp;in 1997. However, they split less than a year later. She then went on to marry&nbsp;<strong>Cris Judd<\/strong>&nbsp;in 2001. Although, they also called it quits after less than a year of marriage.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"50.912621359223\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"3.5728155339806\">\n<p>In addition, she became engaged to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/ben_affleck\">Ben Affleck<\/a><\/strong> in 2002. They were set to wed in 2003 but called it off.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"35.422058823529\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"13.402941176471\">\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>Hustlers<\/em>&nbsp;star then married&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/marc_anthony\">Marc Anthony<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;in 2004. They announced their breakup in 2011. They share two kids together:&nbsp;<strong>Emme<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Max<\/strong>. Lopez is now engaged to&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/alex_rodriguez\">Alex Rodriguez<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>As for Cruz, he formed a relationship with&nbsp;<strong>Isa<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was kind and loving,&#8221; his partner of&nbsp;18 years said in a statement to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2020\/03\/23\/jennifer-lopez-former-boyfriend-david-cruz-dead-dies-first-love\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TMZ<\/a>. &#8220;He never held on to anything and was always very open. He was a devoted father, he helped raise his step-son who is now in the Marines. He loved the Yankees and Knicks. He loved going to the theatre with me. My favorite moment was family date night, because it wasn&#8217;t just special for me but for the kids as well. He always made sure to end things with an &#8216;I love you.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1133524\/jennifer-lopez-s-ex-boyfriend-david-cruz-dead-at-51?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ron Galella\/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images David Cruz&nbsp;has passed away. The New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner confirmed to E! News that&nbsp;Cruz died on Saturday at the age of 51.&nbsp;According to multiple reports, he passed away at the Mount Sinai West Hospital in New York. The medical examiner also confirmed that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-26 06:32:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}