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Here’s a story that will probably put to rest divorce rumors that have been surrounding the couple for some time now. 

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner have allegedly bought an LA home to the tune of $16 million to house their growing family. Their daughter, Violet, is already 2 years old.

The two are expecting their second offspring. Or should that be offsprings? Jen, who reports claim is five months on the family way, is probably bearing fraternal twins like everybody else in Hollywood. Tinseltown's twinnage syndrome is growing more and more frickin’ banal.

The purchase puts the Garflecks in the neighborhood of Spider-Man star Tobey Maguire and TV personality Ricki Lake.

Us Weekly reports that the lovely pair, who are making plans to put down their roots in the LA abode as they get ready for the coming of baby No. 2 (or should that be #2 and #3? whatever), bought the 9,900 square-foot estate that boasts of: seven bedrooms, seven baths, six fireplaces, a library, a brick white cellar, a swimming pool and a three-car garage.

Before any of you say that Ben’s probably doing good at the poker table that’s why they could afford the McMansion, you’ve first got to consider that he’s made lots of money in his films, the latest of which is… The memory escapes me.

Methinks Angelina Jolie won’t respond to this story by buying Europe.