Britney Spears’ husband files for divorce, source tells AP

LOS ANGELES — LOS ANGELES (AP) — Britney Spears ‘ husband Sam Asghari has filed for divorce from the celebrity 14 months after a they have been married, an individual acquainted with the submitting mentioned late Wednesday.

The particular person, who’s near Asghari however not licensed to talk publicly, confirmed the submitting occurred Wednesday, hours after a number of shops together with TMZ and Individuals journal reported the couple had separated.

An e mail despatched to a Spears consultant was not instantly returned. Courtroom information in Los Angeles and Ventura counties didn’t present the place the case had been filed.

Spears married Asghari at her residence in Thousand Oaks, California, on June 9, 2022 in entrance of friends together with Selena Gomez, Drew Barrymore, Paris Hilton and Madonna, in a marriage seen as a milestone in her newly reclaimed life after the dissolution simply six months earlier of the court docket conservatorship that managed her life for greater than 13 years.

The pop celebrity met and started relationship Asghari, a mannequin and actor, when he appeared in her video for the track “Slumber Social gathering” in 2016.

She cited her need to marry Asghari as among the many causes she wished an finish to the constraining conservatorship, which she mentioned was stopping it. The 2 introduced their engagement in September of 2021 because it turned clear she could be free of the conservatorship — which was ended that November.

Spears mentioned she and Asghari misplaced a child early in her being pregnant in Might 2022, a few month earlier than they married.

Studies of the couple’s struggles had elevated in latest months.

Their marriage is the primary for the 29-year-old Asghari and the third for the 41-year-old singer. She was married for lower than three days in 2004 to childhood buddy Jason Alexander, who tried to crash her wedding ceremony to Asghari and was later convicted of misdemeanor trespassing and battery.

In 2004, she wed dancer Kevin Federline. Their three-year marriage would come at a time of intense media scrutiny and growing psychological well being struggles for Spears. Federline is the daddy of her two teenage sons, and has custody of the boys.

She could be positioned within the conservatorship run by her father in 2008. She did nicely underneath the association at first, persevering with to launch information, make movies, and carry out dwell, together with a significant live performance residency in Las Vegas. However as she appeared much less in public, followers started to demand that the court docket #FreeBritney, in what would ultimately develop into a significant motion.

Because the conservatorship ended, Spears has put out music, together with a collaboration with Elton John in 2022, however has not carried out dwell in years, nor introduced plans to take action.

Her memoir, “The Lady in Me,” is scheduled to be launched in October.