Britney Spears and Sam Asghari are officially divorced and single

LOS ANGELES – LOS ANGELES (AP) — Britney Spears and Sam Asghari are officially divorced and single.

The dissolution of the couple’s marriage was finalized on Friday by a Los Angeles County judge, nearly two years after the two tied the knot.

The trial comes hours after the 42-year-old pop star and the 30-year-old model and actor told the court they had reached a divorce settlement, and a week after Spears reached a plea deal with her father over lingering issues in her guardianship.

The couple filed court documents on Thursday and Friday saying they had reached an agreement on the division of their assets. Few details have been released, but neither Spears nor Asghari will receive spousal support in the future. Asghari said in her initial petition that she would seek financial support. Any future disputes would need to be resolved in private arbitration.

Spears and Asghari separated in July and he filed for divorce in August. They had been dating for about seven years.

The two had no children together, so no custody arrangement was necessary. Spears wrote in her memoir published last year that she and Asghari had a miscarriage early in her pregnancy, about a month before they were married.

Emails seeking details or comment from attorneys for Spears and Asghari were not immediately returned.

Their wedding at her home in June 2022, in front of guests including Selena Gomez, Drew Barrymore, Paris Hilton and Madonna, was seen as a triumphant milestone in her newly recovered life, after she was released a few months early from conservatorship. court that controlled his life. and money for over 13 years.

But they would split just over a year later.

Last Friday, Spears and her father, Jamie Spears, reached an agreement on the remaining issues of that legal settlement, avoiding what could have been a long, ugly and revealing trial that was scheduled to begin later this month.

Spears has said little publicly about the separation.

In an Instagram post shortly after filing for divorce, she said, “I’m not here to explain why because it’s honestly nobody’s business!!! But, I couldn’t take the pain anymore, honestly!!!”

In her memoir, “The Woman in Me,” released two months after Asghari filed for divorce, Spears speaks only briefly and positively of Asghari. She describes him holding her hand as she remotely addressed a judge during an important hearing that helped end her conservatorship.

Like the vast majority of those who file for divorce in California, Asghari cited irreconcilable differences as the reason for the split.

It was Spears’ third marriage. She has two teenage children with her previous husband, Kevin Federline, to whom she was married from 2004 to 2007, a time when intense media scrutiny created emotional difficulties for her.

Spears was married for less than three days in 2004 to childhood friend Jason Alexander, who tried to crash her wedding with Asghari and was later convicted of misdemeanor trespassing and assault.

Spears met and began dating Asghari, a model and actor, when he appeared in her video for the song “Slumber Party” in 2016.

She cited her desire to marry him as one of the reasons she wanted an end to the restrictive conservatorship, which she said was holding her back. The two announced their engagement in September 2021.

Since the conservatorship ended, Spears has released music, including a collaboration with Elton John in 2022. But she hasn’t performed live in years and has said she has no intention of performing or making a new album.