{"id":11098,"date":"2021-01-19T23:35:09","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T23:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=11098"},"modified":"2021-01-20T14:01:37","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T14:01:37","slug":"ana-de-armas-cardboard-cutout","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/ana-de-armas-cardboard-cutout\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben-Ana Split: Who Was The Masked Man Who Threw Out Ben Affleck&#8217;s Cardboard Cutout of Ex Ana de Armas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11109\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11109\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11109\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/01\/Ana-de-Armas-Cardboard-Cutout.jpg\" alt=\"cardboard cutout, Ana de Armas\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-gz_credit=\"Photo by Stephane Cardinale - Corbis\/Corbis via Getty Images\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11109\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ana de Armas attends the &#8220;Hands Of Stone&#8221; photocall during the 69th annual Cannes Film Festival at the Palais des Festivals on May 16, 2016, in Cannes, France.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We&#8217;re only 19 days into the new year, yet we&#8217;re already pretty confident 2021 will be a wild ride when it comes to celebrity gossip. We&#8217;ve already struggled to grapple with the <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/armine-hammer-elizabeth-chambers-divorce-reason-cannibalism-claims\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">disturbing allegations<\/a> against Armie Hammer, the news of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/kim-kardashian-kanye-west-divorce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;imminent&#8221; divorce<\/a>, and most recently, the curious case of who threw a cardboard cutout of<a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/ana-de-armas-breakup-bangs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Ana de Armas<\/a> in the trash.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">To backtrack, the 32-year-old actress and Ben Affleck broke up after <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/ben-affleck-and-ana-de-armas-dating\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">less than a year together<\/a>, as reported by\u00a0<\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/movies\/ben-affleck-and-ana-de-armas-split-source\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PEOPLE<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8220;She broke it off,&#8221; a source told the outlet. &#8220;Their relationship was complicated. Ana doesn&#8217;t want to be Los Angeles based, and Ben obviously has to since his kids live in Los Angeles.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">So how does a life-size cutout of the\u00a0<\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Knives Out\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">star fit into this? Well, the day their split made headlines\u2014Monday, January 18, to be exact\u2014a masked man was photographed throwing the cardboard poster into a trash bin. All signs point to the fact that a landscaper from Diamond Landscaping was the culprit, but internet sleuths think there might be more suspects.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A life-sized cardboard cutout of Ana de Armas from inside Ben Affleck\u2019s residence was seen being thrown out into a trash can. (January 18, 2021) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4bxxDC97WZ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/4bxxDC97WZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ana de Armas Updates (@ArmasUpdates) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArmasUpdates\/status\/1351350565704519685?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">January 19, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the cardboard cutout has a history. It was first spotted in June, outside of Affleck&#8217;s Los Angeles home. At the time, his three children, Samuel, Seraphina, and Samuel (whom he shares with ex-wife, Jennifer Garner) were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-8392893\/Ben-Affleck-girlfriend-Ana-Armas-proves-shes-big-hit-kids.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">spotted hanging out with Armas<\/a>, sans their dad. It appears as though they played a trick on either paparazzi or Affleck by leaving it in front of the house.<\/p>\n<p>But back to the tragic loss of the infamous cardboard cutout. Below, find our list of suspects, listed from most likely to least likely:<\/p>\n<h3><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">1. a Diamond Landscaping Employee<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">As seen in the photos posted above, the man who disposed of the cardboard cutout wore a long-sleeved neon shirt featuring a logo for the California-based company Diamond Landscaping. What&#8217;s curious is that he&#8217;s intensely undercover. He wears a protective face mask (likely a preventative measure against COVID-19), but he also dons a hat that makes it extra challenging to identify his face.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><strong>2. Ben Affleck<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Would Ben Affleck go undercover as a Diamond Landscaping employee to throw out the cardboard cutout? Well, many social media users assumed it was him. After all, the ordeal happened right in front of his house&#8230;.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>3. Casey Affleck<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Social media briefly blew up, convinced that Ben&#8217;s 45-year-old brother was the culprit. &#8220;That looks like Casey Affleck,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nozztilbrooklyn\"style=\"background-color: #ffffff\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tweeted a follower<\/a>. &#8220;Brotherly love is throwing out life-sized cutouts of your brother\u2019s ex.&#8221; But other internet investigators pointed out that it&#8217;s unlikely he dressed up in a Diamond Landscaping Shirt.<\/p>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><strong>4. Matt Damon<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0Could Affleck have recruited his best friend to dispose of his ex-girlfriend&#8217;s cardboard cutout? Maybe! They&#8217;ve reportedly been spending extra time together as Affleck emotionally recovers. \u201cMatt was at the house in December, and again in the first week of January,&#8221; a source <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.ie\/tvandshowbiz\/6437350\/ben-affleck-ana-de-armas-split-two-weeks-ago\/?utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1611087331\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told <\/a><em>The Sun. &#8220;<\/em>Ben\u2019s leaning on Matt because he\u2019s always been there for him at his lowest points.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11106\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11106\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11106\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/01\/Ana-de-Armas-7.jpg\" alt=\"Ana de Armas, cardboard cutout\" width=\"1024\" height=\"819\" data-gz_credit=\"The Mega Agency\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11106\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A prankster left a cardboard cut out of Ana de Armas outside her then-boyfriend Ben Affleck&#8217;s home in Los Angeles, June 2020.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"author":26537,"featured_media":11109,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[23,16],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v20.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Who Threw Out Ben Affleck&#039;s Ana de Armas Cardboard Cutout? - Grazia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Who threw out Ben Affleck&#039;s cardboard cutout of Ana de Armas? 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