VENTURA, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Britney Spears was arrested Wednesday night in Southern California and booked early the following morning, according to the Ventura County Sheriff\u2019s office, which didn\u2019t say what charge she faces.<\/p>\n
Messages seeking comment were left with the sheriff’s office; the California Highway Patrol, which was identified as the arresting agency; and Spears’ representative.<\/p>\n
Spears was arrested around 9:30 p.m. in Ventura County and released on Thursday, sheriff’s office records show. She has a May 4 court date scheduled.<\/p>\n
Spears, 44, born in Mississippi and raised in Louisiana, was a teen pop phenomenon who became a defining superstar of the \u201990s and 2000s. She rose to fame from Disney Channel\u2019s \u201cThe Mickey Mouse Club\u201d to MTV and beyond, with such era-defining hits like \u201c\u2026 Baby One More Time,\u201d \u201cOops! \u2026 I Did It Again\u201d and \u201cToxic.\u201d<\/p>\n
Most of her albums have been certified platinum, according to the Recording Industry Association of America, with two diamond titles: 1999\u2019s \u201c \u2026 Baby One More Time\u201d and 2000\u2019s \u201cOops! \u2026 I Did It Again.\u201d Her last full-length album, \u201cGlory,\u201d 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 recognize the misogynistic media coverage of the time, Spears\u2019 fight to control her life became the focus of the #FreeBritney movement. 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. Two years later, she released a bestselling, tell-all memoir, \u201cThe Woman in Me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VENTURA, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Britney Spears was arrested Wednesday night in Southern California and booked early the following…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[29795,27902,5167,7,9,8],"class_list":["post-205926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-ap-entertainment","tag-ap-u-s-news","tag-associated-press","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}