A man as soon as briefly married to Britney Spears who confirmed up uninvited on the pop star’s wedding ceremony to longtime boyfriend Sam Asghari was charged Monday with felony stalking.
Jason Alexander, 40, pleaded not responsible in Ventura County court docket to the cost, together with misdemeanor counts of trespassing, vandalism and battery.
The three misdemeanor fees stemmed immediately from Alexander’s try to get into the marriage, which he livestreamed on Instagram. The stalking cost concerned repeated incidents over time, Spears lawyer Mathew Rosengart mentioned.
“He will – I hope, and I pledged my assist – be very vigorously prosecuted,” Rosengart mentioned outdoors the listening to. “It is a very critical matter. This was greater than only a quote ‘wedding ceremony crash.’ This was an intrusion.”
The decide set his bail at $100,000
A decide issued a restraining order requiring Alexander, who appeared in court docket through video convention from jail, to remain at the very least 100 yards from Spears for 3 years. The decide set his bail at $100,000 and scheduled a Wednesday listening to on the problem.
An electronic mail looking for remark from his public defender Matthew Terry was not instantly returned.
Britney Spears is getting married with Sam Asghari
Alexander was Spears’ first husband. The 2 have been married for lower than three days in 2004 earlier than an annulment.
Spears, 40, and Asghari, 28, have been married Thursday at her house in Thousand Oaks, California, in entrance of a number of dozen company together with Selena Gomez, Drew Barrymore, Paris Hilton and Madonna.
Alexander, who was a childhood pal of Spears, was streaming dwell on Instagram when he approached home. He appeared in a principally empty however adorned room, telling safety Spears had invited him.
Deputies responding to a trespassing name detained him, and he was arrested once they discovered he had a warrant for his arrest in one other county, the Ventura County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned.
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 tune “Slumber Social gathering.”
Their wedding ceremony got here 9 months after Spears and Asghari have been engaged, and practically 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 mentioned 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 !!!”
