Britney Spears’ ex-husband Jason Alexander was arrested Sunday at a Nashville airport.
Alexander, who was Spears’ childhood good friend and first husband, was arrested for a misdemeanor tried air security violation, in keeping with on-line data obtained by USA TODAY. His bail is about at $2,500, and he’s due again in court docket on Sept. 24.
USA TODAY reached out to Metropolitan Nashville Police Division and Nashville Worldwide Airport police for extra particulars.
The 39-year-old addressed his arrest on Instagram Live Tuesday, calling it an “inconvenience.”
“You find yourself in handcuffs for one thing silly,” he stated. “The media and police will not be your folks.”
He continued to subtly talk about the incident, saying he “did nothing incorrect.”
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Alexander and Spears tied the knot in Las Vegas in 2004 for 55 hours. They rapidly had their union annulled. That very same yr, Spears married her backup dancer Kevin Federline, with whom she shares two sons, Sean Preston, 15, and Jayden James, 14.The 2 divorced in 2006. Spears is at the moment relationship longtime boyfriend Sam Asghari.
Alexander has been vocal about his help for his ex-wife’s emancipation from her conservatorship. Earlier this month, the pop singer’s father, Jamie Spears, agreed to step down as her conservator in her “finest pursuits,” in keeping with a doc Jamie is submitting with the court docket and obtained by USA TODAY.
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“At the same time as Mr. Spears is the unremitting goal of unjustified assaults, he doesn’t consider {that a} public battle along with his daughter over his persevering with service as her conservator can be in her finest pursuits,” reads the doc.
The choice, if affirmed by the Los Angeles probate court docket Decide Brenda Penny, is a “main victory and one other step in direction of justice” for Britney Spears, in keeping with her new lawyer, Mathew Rosengart.
He vowed to proceed his “vigorous investigation” into Jamie Spears’ conduct as conservator whereas he “reaped thousands and thousands of {dollars}” from his daughter’s property.
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Final week, Spears and her legal professional stated her father is attempting to get about $2 million in funds earlier than stepping down from the conservatorship that controls her life and cash.
The document filed by Rosengart says the upcoming scheduled accounting of the conservatorship, which Jamie Spears says he desires accomplished earlier than he steps down, will imply vital fundsfor him.
“Britney Spears is not going to be extorted,” the submitting says. “Mr. Spears’s blatant try to barter suspension and removing in change for about $2 million in funds, on prime of the thousands and thousands already reaped from Ms. Spears’s property by Mr. Spears and his associates, is a non-starter.”
Contributing: Maria Puente, USA TODAY; The Related Press
