Kick Kennedy and Ben Affleck started dating even before the Oscar-winning actor started dating ‘Blonde’ star Ana de Armas in March 2020, according to Page Six.

Affleck and Kennedy have been spotted together at the Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Hotel in recent months. However, it seems that they were friends for longer before rumors about the two started leaking in the media.

“Their friendship goes back even before Ana,” a Hollywood source told Page Six. “When Ben started seeing Ana in 2020 and quarantined with her during Covid, Kik Kennedy wasn’t thrilled with the development.”

After things went sour with his wife Jennifer Lopez earlier this year, Affleck reconnected with Kennedy, the report said.

Despite multiple sources confirming to People magazine that Affleck, 52, and Kennedy, 36, daughter of Robert Kennedy Jr., “have been spending time together,” a rep for the actor denied they were dating, telling the paper: “There is no true to none of that. I don’t know if they even know each other.”

However, another source said, “Affleck would love nothing more than to be part of the Kennedy clan. It’s a dream for any guy from Boston… I think he’d rather have that than a billion-dollar, red-carpet life with Jennifer Lopez.”

However, Affleck’s representative, contacted by Page Six, insisted, “That’s not true. They don’t hang out.”