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Britney Spears’ husband Sam Asghari files for divorce from pop star

  • The singer married the actor at a star-studded wedding in California last June
  • Their marriage is the first for Asghari and the third for Spears

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Britney Spears and Sam Asghari attend a gala event in Beverly Hills, California. File photo: Getty Images/TNS
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Britney Spears’ husband Sam Asghari has filed for divorce from the superstar 14 months after a they were married, a person familiar with the filing said late Wednesday.

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The person, who is close to Asghari but not authorised to speak publicly, confirmed the filing happened on Wednesday, hours after several outlets including TMZ and People magazine reported the couple had separated.

An email sent to a Spears representative was not immediately returned. Court records in Los Angeles and Ventura counties did not show where the case had been filed.

Spears married Asghari at her home in Thousand Oaks, California, on June 9, 2022 in front of guests including Selena Gomez, Drew Barrymore, Paris Hilton and Madonna, in a wedding seen as a milestone in her newly reclaimed life after the dissolution just six months earlier of the court conservatorship that controlled her life for more than 13 years.

The pop superstar met and began dating Asghari, a model and actor, when he appeared in her video for the song Slumber Party in 2016.

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She cited her desire to marry Asghari as among the reasons she wanted an end to the constraining conservatorship, which she said was preventing it. The two announced their engagement in September of 2021 as it became clear she would be freed from the conservatorship – which was ended that November.

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