"Spears was arrested around 9:30 p.m. in Ventura County and released on Thursday, sheriff's office records show. She has a May 4 court date scheduled. Spears, 44, born in Mississippi and raised in Louisiana, was a teen pop phenomenon who became a defining superstar of the '90s and 2000s."
"In 2008, Spears was placed under a court-ordered conservatorship, run primarily by her father and his lawyers, that would control her personal and financial decisions for well over a decade. It was dissolved in 2021. Two years later, she released a bestselling, tell-all memoir, "The Woman in Me.""
"Most of her albums have been certified platinum, according to the Recording Industry Association of America, with two diamond titles: 1999's "...Baby One More Time" and 2000's "Oops! ...I Did It Again." Her last full-length album, "Glory," was released in 2016."
Britney Spears, the 44-year-old pop icon who rose to fame in the 1990s and 2000s with hits like "...Baby One More Time" and "Toxic," was arrested in Ventura County, California on Wednesday evening and released Thursday. The California Highway Patrol made the arrest around 9:30 p.m., though the specific charges remain undisclosed. Spears has a court date scheduled for May 4. Her career included multiple platinum-certified albums and two diamond certifications. After facing intense media scrutiny and mental health challenges in the early 2000s, Spears was placed under a conservatorship in 2008 that controlled her personal and financial decisions until its dissolution in 2021. She subsequently released a bestselling memoir.
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