Jennifer Lopez throws 'Bridgerton'-themed party in Water Mill; hosts 4-hour brunch at Bridgehampton eatery

Pop star and actor Jennifer Lopez, who has been spending summer in the Hamptons while her film star/producer husband, Oscar winner Ben Affleck, remains in Los Angeles, threw herself a “Bridgerton”-themed party in Water Mill on Saturday, days ahead of her 55th birthday this Wednesday. The following day she hosted a 20-person brunch at the Bridgehampton location of Manhattan’s Arthur & Sons.

Video shot Saturday outside the lavish Bay Lane party shows the festivities taking place at a property adjacent to the mansion Lopez famously purchased in 2013. Two white horses, which have been unloaded from a trailer parked nearby, pull a white carriage down the street and enter across flagstones through a wooden gate, where security personnel mill about and parking valets stand.

A string of vehicles lines one side of the narrow street. Eventually Lopez’s mother, Guadalupe Rodríguez, emerges dressed in a pale blue gown echoing the 19th century Regency England setting of the TV series “Bridgerton,” opening the back of a white SUV. She’s joined by a woman in a salmon-pink gown, another in a dark white gown, and a footman in a yellow vest, who then all head in.

A van bears the logo of the catering and event-planning company In Thyme, of Moonachie, New Jersey. The firm did not respond to a Newsday request for comment.

On Sunday, multiplatinum Grammy Award-nominated Lopez, who has starred in films including “Selena” (1997), “Out of Sight” (1998), “Hustlers” (2019) and this year’s “Atlas,” hosted a 1 p.m. brunch at Arthur & Sons, on the Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike.

The star’s manager, Benny Medina, “worked with us hand-in-hand to get the menu created,” the restaurant’s owner, Michelin-star chef Joe Isidori, 46, told Newsday.

“They had dined with us previously,” the Bronx-born and Yonkers-raised restaurateur said of Medina and Lopez, “so they already had a little tour of the menu. They picked some of their favorites and then also picked things they were interested in trying. And throughout the week she was coming by and she was sending folks by to get takeout food to bring to the house for her guests.”

The menu, he said, included such red-sauce classics as chicken Parmesan and rigatoni alla vodka, as well as spaghetti with olive oil, meatballs with ricotta cheese and grilled salmon piccata, plus such appetizer staples as fried calamari. Dessert included cheesecake infused with limoncello liqueur, the gelato dish spumoni, and miniature cannoli.

Isidori also served an off-menu specialty for the four-hour event. “One of the things she said was that because it was more of a brunch [than regular lunch], she asked me if I could put an egg dish on the menu. So we got some local lobsters from Montauk and we made a lobster eggs Benedict.”

The guests included Lopez’s 16-year-old son with her singer ex-husband Marc Anthony, Max, though not his twin sister, Emme.

Lopez and Affleck, who had ended an engagement in 2004, went on to individual marriages and divorces and then reconnected years later, marrying on July 16, 2022. They reportedly are estranged and did not spend their second anniversary together.

Lopez's representatives did not respond to Newsday's request for comment.