Pop star Justin Timberlake was charged early Tuesday with driving while intoxicated in a village in New York's Hamptons, after police said he ran a stop sign and veered out of his lane in the posh seaside summer retreat. The boy band singer-turned-solo star and actor was driving a 2025 BMW in Sag Harbor around 12:30 a.m.
when an officer stopped him and determined he was intoxicated, according to a court document. “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 court papers said. Timberlake, 43, was released without bond later Tuesday morning after being arraigned in Sag Harbor.
He was charged with a DWI misdemeanor, and his next court date was scheduled for July 26, the Suffolk County district attorney’s office said. Timberlake’s lawyer and representatives did not immediately return requests for comment from The Associated Press. A young Timberlake began performing as a Disney Mouseketeer, where his castmates included future girlfriend Britney Spears.
He rose to fame in the behemoth boy band NSYNC, embarked on a solo recording career in 2002 and was one of pop’s most influential figures in the early 2000s. Fluent in the inflections of pop and R&B, he has won 10 Grammy awards for such hits as “Cry Me A River,” “Sexy Back,” “What Goes Around..
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