Who is Jason Alexander, Britney Spears’ wedding crasher? Her first husband was arrested at her secret ceremony to Sam Asghari – and is a Trump supporter spotted at the US Capitol riot

Jun 10 , 2022

Britney Spears’ first husband Jason Alexander real-life crashed her secret wedding! Photo: @jason.allen.alexander, @britneyspears/Instagram

Jason Alexander was Spears’ childhood friend before they got married for 55 hours in 2004, and became an outspoken supporter of the #FreeBritney movement

The Toxic singer’s ex-husband was charged with four misdemeanours after crashing her wedding, but this isn’t the first time he’s been in trouble with the law

Britney Spears’ surprise wedding to Sam Asghari on Thursday didn’t go without a substantial hiccup. The star’s special day risked being ruined when her first husband Jason Alexander got into an altercation with security.

Alexander was pictured being wrestled to the ground on the grounds of the event in California just hours before Spears and Asghari were due to tie the knot. His subsequent arrest by police was not the first time he’s been in trouble with the law. So who is Jason Alexander?

He’s Britney’s childhood friend

Singer Britney Spears married Jason Alexander, a childhood friend from Louisiana when she was 22. Photo: AP

Jason Allen Alexander and Spears know each other from her hometown of Kentwood, Louisiana. The pop star shocked the world in 2004 when she said “I do” to Alexander during a wild whirlwind trip to Las Vegas. But the marriage, which started at the Little White Wedding Chapel, was short-lived.

When the Toxic singer left Sin City and the excitement wore off the marriage was quickly annulled. In fact, it’s one of the shortest marriages in celebrity history – the pair were only man and wife for 55 hours. In a court filing the music icon stated that she “lacked understanding of her actions” when they exchanged nuptials. The same year she went on to marry Kevin Federline, the father of her sons Sean Preston and Jayden James.

In 2021, Alexander claimed the star’s team misled him into ending the marriage and that when he tried to call her 30 days later, her phone line had been cut off so he couldn’t contact her.

“They told me if I would sign the contracts – the annulment – they would let me and Britney continue our relationship, and if we felt the same way in six months they would give us a proper marriage,” he said on an episode of the Toxic: The Britney Spears Story podcast.

“So I had no reason to believe otherwise. I thought that’s what the truth was. They were allowing Britney and I to still have phone communication. So we were talking every day and I still believed the story I was told, that they were going to let us continue to talk and then we would have this marriage, right, in the future if we felt the same way.”