. >> just two hours before she was spend swimming in laguna beach, spending time with the kid before they go back to school. we are told, quote, ben knew he needed help and jen was there for him. >> you know, it's bad enough. >> absolutely. >> it's hard enough. >> thought their 13-year marriage, jen supported ben as he battled addiction. our source says she gave him boundaries, made ultimatums and. he would go gambling and the this would go on for yours. jen really is ben's ride or die. she has never spoken badly about him, even despite his alleged cheating. she told "vanity fair," no one needs to hate ben for me. i don't hate him. my eyes were wide open during the marriage. when it comes to other women, she, quote, does not want to police ben's dates because she is no longer ben's wife and doesn't feel its her place. this past father'squote, the ou are lucky to have a father that looks at them the way you look at them and love them the way you love them. >> it's important to be a model citizen for the world. our kids know we have causes we donate towards, making our own little place

chanting f you -- and so then about a week after that she came to our technology conference in laguna beach a lot of people were wondering if she would come. she came with her security detail and she sat on stage and said through a half an hour interview with our technology editor, there is so much interest in the story at that point that they lifestream did on the website. i cannot go out to california, so i watched it from the newsroom in new york. she told one lie after another. over the course of that half-hour. i suspected she would come out swinging and she would deny, but her willingness to lie in public, in front of an audience and really say things that were verifiably false, i thought it was stunning. so, the early weeks after the story the response was that the wall street journal is wrong and were fighting this and john kerry was a real reporter. >> i suggest when you read this book, so use your computer like half an hour 45 minutes before you want to go to sleep, don't read the letter part of this book before you want to go to sleep. he gets to be a real page turner. i want to

. >> just two hours and 15 minutes before jen drove ben to rehab she was swimming in laguna beach, enjoyingwith the kids before they go back to school. it appears she dropped everything to help her ex. we're told "ben knew he needed help and jen was there for him." >> just give us some space. >> absolutely. >> it's hard enough. >> absolutely. >> throughout their 13-year marriage jen supported ben as he battled addiction. a source tells us jen set boundaries, she stuck by him and gave him ultimatums but he'd eventually fall off the wagon. he would go back to partying and gambling and she would try again. this has been going on for years. if you think about it, jen really is ben's ride or die. she's never spoken badly of him, even despite his alleged cheating. in fact, in 2016 jen told "vanity fair," "no one needs to hate ben for me. i don't hate him. certainly we don't have to beat the guy up. don't worry. my eyes were wide open during the marriage." jen's strategy with ben? well, when it comes to other women she "does not want to police who ben dates because she is no longer ben's wife and

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a beach house in laguna, california that he had listed for $11 million has just been reduced by 3 millionto make buffett-sized profits. he bought the home for $150,000 in the 19s. some of these originalri pces are pure fantasy, andig desd to attract attention and had to come down, but the market for trophy properties is also falling from the ersupply and lack of foreign buyers and tack changes that hurtx high- states, with prices still high at the top, they say the billionaire bargainel are l to get bigger this fall. for nightly business report, i'm >> before we go, let's take a look at the final day on wall street and the numbers. the dow jones industrial average dropped 137 points. the nasdaq fell 21he and s&p 500 was off by 12 and that is "nightly business report" for tonight. i'm sue herera. thanks for joining us. >> thanks from me as well. have a good evening, everybody, and we' see you right back here tomorrow. ♪ ♪ >> this is "bbc world news america." >> funding of this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation, kovler foundation, pursuing solutions for america's negle