Justin Timberlake arrested for DWI on Long Island

SAG HARBOR, New York (AP) — Pop star Justin Timberlake was charged Tuesday morning with drunken driving in a village in New York's Hamptons, after police said he ran a stop sign and left his lane at this chic summer retreat in sea ​​side.

The boy band singer turned solo star and actor was driving a BMW 2025 in Sag Harbor around 12:30 a.m. when a police officer stopped him and determined he was intoxicated, according to a court document.

“His eyes were bloodshot and glassy, ​​a strong odor of alcoholic beverage emanated from his breath, he was unable to divide his attention, he had slowed speech, he was unsteady and he performed poorly on all sobriety tests standardized in the field,” the report said. According to court documents.

Timberlake, 43, told the officer he had been drinking a martini and was following friends home, according to the documents. After being arrested and taken to a police station in nearby East Hampton, he refused to submit to a breathalyzer test, according to court documents, which characterize his activity as “professional” and specify that he is “independent “.

The 10-time Grammy winner was released without bail later Tuesday morning after being arraigned in Sag Harbor. He was charged with misdemeanor drunken driving and his next court date was scheduled for July 26, the Suffolk County Prosecutor's Office said.

Timberlake's attorney and representatives did not immediately respond to requests for comment from The Associated Press.

A young Timberlake began performing as a Disney Mouseketeer, where his castmates included his future girlfriend Britney Spears (he is now married to actress Jessica Biel). He rose to fame as part of the giant boy band NSYNC, launched a solo recording career in 2002, and was one of the most influential figures in pop in the early 2000s.

Mastering the inflections of pop and R&B, he is known for such Grammy Award-winning hits as “Cry Me A River,” “SexyBack,” “What Goes Around…Comes Around” and “Can't Stop The Feeling! He has performed at the Super Bowl halftime show several times, including the infamous “wardrobe malfunction” moment in 2004, when he ripped off a piece of Janet Jackson's clothes and revealed his bare nipple.

The episode led to Jackson's exclusion from the Grammy broadcast a week later. She said in a 2022 documentary that what happened was an accident and that she and Timberlake remained good friends.

Timberlake also built a career as an actor, earning acclaim in films such as “The Social Network” and “Friends With Benefits” and winning four Primetime Emmy Awards.

Last year, Timberlake made headlines when Spears released her memoir, “The Woman in Me.” Several chapters were devoted to their relationship, notably deeply personal information about pregnancy, abortion and a painful breakup. In March, he released his first new album in six years, the nostalgic “Everything I Thought It Was,” a return to his his familiar future funk.

Timberlake has two upcoming shows in Chicago on Friday and Saturday, then at Madison Square Garden in New York on June 25 and 26.

Sag Harbor, a former whaling village mentioned in Herman Melville's classic novel “Moby-Dick,” is nestled in the middle of the Hamptons, about 100 miles east of New York City. The Hamptons have long been a hot spot for the rich and famous, as well as various stars and prominent figures. I got into trouble with the law there.

Situated on a bay, Sag Harbor for years cultivated a reputation that was more down-to-earth and “un-Hampton” than its seaside neighbors – a place where people gathered not at a country club but at a local bar called Corner Bar. There's always a five-and-dime store, and one of the mainstays of the social scene is the quaint and comfortable mid-19th century American hotel.

The village has long had its share of prominent homeowners and residents, including singer-songwriter Billy Joel, former CNN host Don Lemon, Nobel Prize-winning novelist John Steinbeck, feminist writer Betty Friedan and Pulitzer Prize winners Colson Whitehead and Lanford Wilson. Whitehead's novel “Sag Harbor” is set there, specifically in a seaside enclave where generations of black families have spent their summers.

In recent decades, Sag Harbor has increasingly become a destination for celebrities, wannabes, and even cruise ships. Restaurants and expensive Manhattan-style shops have proliferated. Homes fetch seven or eight figures, and the evolving nature of the village has prompted grumbles from some longtime residents about traffic, crowds and changing character.

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Associated Press journalists Michael Balsamo, Karen Matthews and Julie Walker in New York and Dave Collins in Hartford, Connecticut, contributed.