Britney Spears was booked on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs Thursday after being arrested near Los Angeles.
The 44-year-old singer of such hits as “…Baby One More Time” and “Oops!… I Did It Again” was pulled over by California Highway Patrol officers and arrested about 9:30 p.m. Wednesday in Ventura County, just west of Los Angeles.
Spears was booked on suspicion of driving while under the combined influence of alcohol and drugs, according to Capt. Robert Yoos, a public information officer with the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office.
According to Ventura County Sheriff’s inmate records, Spears — a mother of two — was booked into the county’s pre-trial detention facility at 3:02 a.m. Thursday and released at 6:07 a.m.
Yoos did not say where in Ventura County Spears was pulled over, but according to news reports it was near her Thousand Oaks estate.
According to TMZ, Spears was taken to a hospital after her arrest to have blood drawn to determine her intoxication level. Yoos did not confirm that detail and referred further questions to the CHP, which was the arresting agency.
Spears recently sold her music catalog which includes publishing rights, royalties and ownership share in her music, in a deal estimated to be worth $200 million.
She was divorced from her third husband, Sam Asghari, in 2023 after a 14-month marriage.
Their relationship endured while Spears fought a highly publicized battle to extricate herself from a conservatorship that had overseen her personal and financial affairs for more than a decade.
Asghari publicly supported her efforts, and Spears even argued during the fight that one of the reasons she wanted to exit the conservatorship was so she could get married and possibly have another child.
With the conservatorship eventually lifted, the couple were married in June 2022. They did not have any children.
Spears was married for less than three days in 2004 to childhood friend Jason Alexander — not the Jason Alexander of “Seinfeld” fame — and for nearly four years to Kevin Federline, with whom she had two boys: Sean Preston, 17, and Jayden James, 16.
In 2023, a video surfaced of Spears driving erratically after leaving a Thousand Oaks restaurant.
She was involved in a hit-and-run crash into a parked car in Los Angeles in 2007 while driving without a license.
Spears’ representative Cade Hudson acknowledged the latest trouble for the singer in a statement to the New York Post’s Page Six. Spears took down her Instagram account after posting video of herself dancing in the hours before her arrest.
“Britney is going to take the right steps and comply with the law and hopefully this can be the first step in long overdue change that needs to occur in Britney’s life,” Hudson told Page Six. “Hopefully, she can get the help and support she needs during this difficult time.”