Britney Spears was arrested Wednesday night in Southern California and booked early the following morning, though the charge was not clear, according to the Ventura County Sheriff’s office website.
Singer arrested around 9:30 p.m. in Ventura County and released on Thursday, according to online records
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Britney Spears was arrested in Southern California, officials from the California Highway Patrol have confirmed to CBC News.
According to filings on the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office website, Spears was arrested Wednesday night and booked early the following morning, according to the Associated Press, though the charge was unclear.
Records also show that the arrest happened around 9:30 p.m. in Ventura County, and that the former pop star has a May 4 court date scheduled.
Spears, born in Mississippi and raised in Louisiana, was a teen pop phenomenon who became a defining superstar of the ’90s and 2000s. She rose to fame from Disney Channel’s The Mickey Mouse Club to MTV and beyond, with era-defining songs such as Hit Me Baby One More Time, Oops! I Did It Again and Toxic.
The star struggled with her mental health and substance use in the 2000s, and was hospitalized for a period of time in 2008.
In recent years, fans scrutinized the conservatorship that allowed her father, James Spears, to control her life and money. This sparked the Free Britney movement and a documentary about her court fight with her father.
A judge suspended the conservatorship in 2021 in what was seen as a major win for the pop star.
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With files from Griffin Jaeger and the Associated Press
