VENTURA, Calif. — A person as soon as briefly married to Britney Spears was charged Monday with felony stalking after exhibiting up on the pop star’s wedding ceremony to longtime boyfriend Sam Asghari.
Jason Alexander was additionally charged with misdemeanor counts of trespassing, vandalism and battery, Ventura County court docket information present. He has but to enter a plea, and was set to look in court docket for arraignment on Monday afternoon.
Alexander was Spears’ first husband. The 2 had been married for lower than three days in 2004 earlier than an annulment.
Spears, 40, and Asghari, 28, had been married Thursday at her residence in Thousand Oaks, California, in entrance of a number of dozen visitors together with Selena Gomez, Drew Barrymore, Paris Hilton and Madonna.
Spears and Asghari obtained an emergency protecting order in court docket in opposition to him the day after the marriage, Spears’ lawyer Matthew Rosengart stated.
Alexander, who was a childhood good friend of Spears, was streaming dwell on Instagram when he approached home. He appeared in a largely empty however adorned room, telling safety Spears had invited him.
Deputies responding to a trespassing name detained him, and he was arrested after they realized he had a warrant for his arrest in one other county, the Ventura County Sheriff’s Workplace stated.
It was not clear whether or not Alexander had but retained an lawyer Monday.
Spears was beforehand married from 2004 to 2007 to Kevin Federline, with whom she shares two sons, ages 14 and 15.
She met Asghari in 2016 on the set of the video for her track “Slumber Social gathering.”
Their wedding ceremony got here 9 months after Spears and Asghari had been engaged, and almost seven months after Spears received her freedom from a court docket conservatorship that managed her life and affairs for greater than 12 years.
Spears posted concerning the nuptials on her Instagram and Twitter accounts the next day.
“Wow !!! Holy holy crap !!! WE DID IT !!! WE GOT MARRIED !!! Gggggeeeeezzzzz !!! It was probably the most spectacular day !!!” Spears stated within the posts together with an image of her and Asghari from the marriage. “The ceremony was a dream and the social gathering was even higher !!!”
