SAG HARBOR, N.Y. (AP) — Pop megastar Justin Timberlake used to be charged early Tuesday with drunken riding in a village in Brandnew York’s Hamptons, next police mentioned he ran a forbid signal and veered out of his lane within the posh seashore summer season retreat.
The boy band singer-turned-solo megastar and actor used to be riding a 2025 BMW in Sag Harbor round 12:30 a.m. when an officer prohibited him and progressive he used to be intoxicated, in keeping with a courtroom file.
“His eyes were bloodshot and glassy, a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage was emanating from his breath, he was unable to divide attention, he had slowed speech, he was unsteady afoot and he performed poorly on all standardized field sobriety tests,” the courtroom papers mentioned.
Timberlake, 43, advised the officer he had one martini and used to be following some pals house, in keeping with the paperwork. Then being arrested and brought to a police station in close by East Hampton, he refused a breath take a look at, mentioned the courtroom papers, which indexed his profession as “professional” and mentioned he’s “self-employed.”
AP correspondent Julie Walker reviews Justin Timberlake is charged with riding whereas intoxicated within the Hamptons.
The ten-time Grammy winner used to be exempt with out bond after Tuesday morning next being arraigned in Sag Harbor. He used to be charged with a driving-while-intoxicated misdemeanor, and his after courtroom occasion used to be scheduled for July 26, the Suffolk County district legal professional’s workplace mentioned.
Edward Burke Jr., a local lawyer representing Timberlake, declined to comment Tuesday other than to confirm the star doesn’t need to appear in person for his next court date. Timberlake’s California-based representatives didn’t return multiple requests for comment Tuesday.
The arrest brought a steady stream of curiosity seekers to the village’s quaint Main Street, with many taking photos in front of the brick municipal building throughout the day.
Even music legend Billy Joel, who owns a home in Sag Harbor, took within the scene out of doors the American Resort, a prevalent resort and eating place positioned after to the courthouse the place Timberlake have been noticed sooner than his arrest.
“Judge not lest ye be judged,” the “Piano Man” singer told WPIX, declining to touch upon Timberlake or his arrest.
A tender Timberlake started appearing as a Disney Mouseketeer, the place his castmates integrated occasion female friend Britney Spears (he’s now married to actress Jessica Biel). He rose to status within the behemoth boy band NSYNC, launched into a solo recording profession in 2002 and used to be one in every of pop’s maximum influential figures within the early 2000s.
Fluent within the inflections of father and R&B, he’s recognized for such Grammy-winning hits as “Cry Me A River,” “SexyBack,” “What Goes Around…Comes Around” and “Can’t Stop The Feeling!” He has carried out at Tremendous Bowl halftime presentations more than one instances, together with the notorious 2004 “wardrobe malfunction” life when he ripped off a work of Janet Jackson’s clothes and unhidden her naked nipple.
The episode resulted in Jackson’s exclusion from the Grammy telecast a time after. She said in a 2022 documentary that what came about used to be an clash and that she and Timberlake remained just right pals.
Timberlake additionally constructed an performing profession, garnering acclaim in motion pictures together with “The Social Network” and “Friends With Benefits” and profitable 4 Primetime Emmy Awards.
Latter hour, Timberlake used to be within the headlines when Spears exempt her memoir, “The Woman in Me.” A number of chapters had been dedicated to their dating, together with deeply private information about a being pregnant, abortion and painful breakup. In March, he exempt his first unused brochure in six years, the nostalgic “Everything I Thought It Was,” a go back to his regular occasion funk tone.
Timberlake has two after presentations in Chicago on Friday and Saturday, next is scheduled for Brandnew York’s Madison Sq. Ground on June 25 and 26.
Sag Harbor, a onetime whaling village discussed in Herman Melville’s vintage booklet “Moby-Dick,” is nestled amid the Hamptons, round 100 miles (160 kilometers) east of Brandnew York Town. The Hamptons have lengthy been a sizzling spot for the lavish and well-known, and diverse stars and differently important public have had brushes with the regulation there.
Positioned on a bay, Sag Harbor for years cultivated a extra down-to-earth, “un-Hampton” popularity than its oceanfront neighbors — a playground the place public accumulated now not at a rustic membership however at a nook bar referred to as the Nook Bar. There may be nonetheless a five-and-dime bind, and a mainstay of the social scene is the old fashioned, comfortable mid-Nineteenth-century American Resort.
The village has lengthy had its proportion of important householders and citizens, together with singer-songwriter Joel, former CNN host Don Lemon, Nobel Prize-winning novelist John Steinbeck, feminist essayist Betty Friedan, and Pulitzer Prize winners Colson Whitehead and Lanford Wilson. Whitehead’s booklet “Sag Harbor” is about there, specifically in a beachfront enclave the place generations of Lightless households have spent summers.
In fresh many years, Sag Harbor has increasingly more transform a vacation spot for celebrities, wannabes or even cruise ships. New york-like eating places and expensive boutiques have multiplied. Houses fetch seven or 8 figures, and the village’s evolving nature has brought on grumbles from some longtime citizens about visitors, crowds and a converting personality.
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Related Press reporters Michael Balsamo, Karen Matthews and Julie Walker in Brandnew York and Dave Collins in Hartford, Connecticut, contributed.
