{"id":459289,"date":"2026-03-05T18:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T18:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/459289\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T18:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T18:03:09","slug":"britney-spears-arrested-in-california-for-dui-britney-spears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/459289\/","title":{"rendered":"Britney Spears arrested in California for DUI | Britney Spears"},"content":{"rendered":"

Britney Spears<\/a> was arrested in Ventura county, California<\/a>, on Wednesday night for driving under the influence.<\/p>\n

The singer was stopped and handcuffed by the California highway patrol at about 9.28pm local time, as first reported by TMZ and confirmed by Variety<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Spears was booked in the early hours of Thursday morning, at about 3.02am, and was released just after 6am.<\/p>\n

After her release, Spears deleted her Instagram profile. Her most recent post was captioned: \u201cSong representing fragility be careful my friends when dealing with the queen of hearts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her arrest follows a legal victory earlier this week, when Spears was granted a restraining order<\/a> against a 51-year-old Louisiana man who had been harassing her since 2013. According to Spears\u2019 court filing, the man showed up at her Los Angeles home after making several \u201cdisturbing social media posts\u201d.<\/p>\n

Receiving this week\u2019s DUI is not Spears\u2019 first run-in with the law. In 2007, she faced four misdemeanor charges after an alleged hit-and-run with a parked car in Los Angeles. The charges were dropped after Spears paid the vehicle\u2019s owner for damages.<\/p>\n

In February, it was revealed that Spears sold her rights<\/a> to her music catalogue in late 2025 in a reported $200m deal. The sale to independent music publisher Primary Wave came after the singer\u2019s 13-year conservatorship, which drained her finances and which Spears described as \u201cabusive\u201d.<\/p>\n

While under the conservatorship, Spears had no control over her assets and finances. \u201cThirteen years went by with me feeling like a shadow of myself \u2026 My father and his associates having control over my body and my money \u2026 makes me feel sick,\u201d she wrote in her bestselling 2023 memoir The Woman in Me.<\/p>\n

Spears\u2019 deal with Primary Wave signed over her ownership of her hits including \u2026 Baby One More Time, Lucky and Everytime. The publisher also owns the catalogues of other music icons including Whitney Houston, Stevie Nicks and Prince.<\/p>\n

In January, Spears announced in a lengthy Instagram post that she would \u201cnever perform in the US again\u201d, citing \u201cextremely sensitive reasons\u201d. She didn\u2019t rule out global appearances, adding: \u201cI hope to be sitting on a stool with a red rose in my hair, in a bun, performing with my son \u2026 in the UK and AUSTRALIA very soon.\u201d<\/p>\n

Spears\u2019 last full-length studio release was 2016\u2019s Glory, which was heralded as a return to form by the Guardian\u2019s Alex Macpherson, who described it as \u201ca smooth, shapeshifting record \u2013 with the singer sounding like she\u2019s having the time of her life\u201d.<\/p>\n

Since her release from the conservatorship in 2021, Spears has made few public appearances but regularly posted videos on social media, often showing her dancing at home. While no new album has followed, she has released one-off singles including the 2022 Elton John<\/a> collaboration Hold Me Closer and 2023\u2019s Mind Your Business with will.i.am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britney Spears was arrested in Ventura county, California, on Wednesday night for driving under the influence. The singer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-459289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}