{"id":2402062,"date":"2026-05-04T21:06:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T21:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2402062"},"modified":"2026-05-04T21:06:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T21:06:44","slug":"britney-spears-pleads-guilty-to-dui-will-avoid-jail-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/britney-spears-pleads-guilty-to-dui-will-avoid-jail-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Britney Spears Pleads Guilty to DUI, Will Avoid Jail Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/music\/news\/britney-spears-arrested-dui-1236680208\/\">Britney Spears has pleaded guilty<\/a> in her DUI case at an arraignment that took place on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe pop singer entered her plea to a misdemeanor charge of driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol, meaning she will avoid jail time, reports the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/04\/arts\/music\/britney-spears-pleads-guilty-dui.html\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a>. Prosecutors charged Spears last week but did not indicate which drug she had taken.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tSpears will avoid jail time as she pleaded guilty to a lower charge known as a \u201cwet reckless,\u201d reports <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/britney-spears-pleads-guilty-dui-arraignment-11964607\" target=\"_blank\">People<\/a>. That allows the defendant to be put on probation for 12 months and complete a DUI class. She was eligible for the deal because she did not have any prior DUI history, there was no crash or injury and her blood alcohol level was low.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tSpears was initially arrested on March 4 in Ventura County, California. The California Highway Patrol made the arrest around 9:30 p.m. and she was booked early the next morning around 3 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cThis was an unfortunate incident that is completely inexcusable. Britney is going to take the right steps and comply with the law and hopefully this can be the first step in long overdue change that needs to occur in Britney\u2019s life,\u201d a representative for Spears said in a statement at the time. \u201cHopefully, she can get the help and support she needs during this difficult time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tFive weeks after her arrest, Spears voluntarily checked into a treatment center but checked out of the facility last week, just days before her arraignment.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source variety.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britney Spears has pleaded guilty in her DUI case at an arraignment that took place on Monday morning. The pop singer entered her plea to a misdemeanor charge of driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol, meaning she will avoid jail time, reports the New York Times. Prosecutors charged Spears last week but did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2402063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[21966],"class_list":["post-2402062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-britney-spears"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Britney-Spears-Pleads-Guilty-to-DUI-Will-Avoid-Jail-Time.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2402062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2402064,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402062\/revisions\/2402064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2402063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2402062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2402062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2402062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}