Britney Spears arrested in California for DUI

Britney Spears arrested in California for DUI Singer was handcuffed by highway patrol on Wednesday night and has since wiped her Instagram profile Britney Spears was arrested in Ventura county, California , on Wednesday night for driving under the influence. The singer was stopped and handcuffed by the California highway patrol at about 9.28pm local time, as first reported by TMZ and confirmed by Variety . Spears was booked in the early hours of Thursday morning, at about 3.02am, and was released just after 6am. After her release, Spears deleted her Instagram profile. Her most recent post was captioned: “Song representing fragility be careful my friends when dealing with the queen of hearts.” Her arrest follows a legal victory earlier this week, when Spears was granted a restraining order against a 51-year-old Louisiana man who had been harassing her since 2013. According to Spears’ court filing, the man showed up at her Los Angeles home after making several “disturbing social media posts”. Receiving this week’s DUI is not Spears’ first run-in with the law. In 2007, she faced four misdemeanor charges after an alleged hit-and-run with a parked car in Los Angeles. The charges were dropped after Spears paid the vehicle’s owner for damages. In February, it was revealed that Spears sold her rights to her music catalogue in late 2025 in a reported $200m deal. The sale to independent music publisher Primary Wave came after the singer’s 13-year conservatorship, which drained her finances and which Spears described as “abusive”. While under the conservatorship, Spears had no control over her assets and finances. “Thirteen years went by with me feeling like a shadow of myself … My father and his associates having control over my body and my money … makes me feel sick,” she wrote in her bestselling 2023 memoir The Woman in Me. Spears’ deal with Primary Wave signed over her ownership of her hits including … Baby One More Time, Lucky and Everytime. The publisher also owns the ca...