Britney Spears has been arrested in California on suspicion of driving under the influence.<\/p>\n
The pop star was arrested about 9:30pm, local time, on Wednesday in Ventura County and released on Thursday, sheriff’s office records show.<\/p>\n
She has a court date scheduled for May 4.<\/p>\n
A representative for Spears did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.<\/p>\n
In 2007, Spears was charged with one count of hit and run causing property damage and one count of driving without a valid California driver’s licence, both of which were misdemeanours.<\/p>\n
Spears, 44, born in Mississippi and raised in Louisiana, became a teen pop phenomenon and a superstar of the 90s and 2000s.<\/p>\n
She rose to fame from Disney Channel’s The Mickey Mouse Club to MTV and beyond, with such era-defining hits as Baby One More Time, Oops! \u2026 I Did It Again and Toxic.<\/p>\n
Her last full-length album, Glory, was released in 2016.<\/p>\n
Spears became a focus of tabloids in the early 2000s and a source of public scrutiny as she battled mental illness, and paparazzi documented the details of her private life.<\/p>\n
Later, as cultural opinion evolved to recognise the misogynistic media coverage of the time, Spears’s fight to control her life became the focus of the #FreeBritney movement.<\/p>\n
In 2008, Spears was placed under a court-ordered conservatorship, run primarily by her father and his lawyers, that would control her personal and financial decisions for well over a decade. It was dissolved in 2021.<\/p>\n
Two years later, she released a bestselling, tell-all memoir, The Woman in Me.<\/p>\n
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