Justin Timberlake has been arrested for allegedly driving while intoxicated in the Hamptons, several news outlets have reported.
The singer, 43, was arrested in Sag Harbor, according to Newsday and ABC’s Good Morning America. A representative for the Sag Harbor Police Department told People that the singer is in police custody, with an arraignment scheduled for later Tuesday, Newsday reported.
TMZ reported that Timberlake also is expected to post bail, so he should be out of custody soon.
Sources told TMZ that Timberlake went meet friends for dinner at a Sag Harbor hotel, then left around 12:30 a.m. and got into his car to drive back to where he was staying. Police pulled him over “almost immediately” after he took the wheel, with sources also telling TMZ that the arrest was spurred by a traffic violation.
A representative for Timberlake did not immediately respond to requests for comment from People or TMZ.
Timberlake is in the middle of his tour for his “Forget Tomorrow” tour, which features hits from his career, as well as from his new album, “Everything I Thought It Was.”
Unfortunately for Timberlake, “Everything I Thought It Was,” his sixth solo album, has been met with an usual amount of critical dismissal as well as weaker than usual sales, becoming his first solo release to miss No. 1 since “Justified” in 2002 the New York Times reported in March.
The album has shaped up to be Timberlake’s “first real bomb,” according to this news organization’s music critic, Jim Harrington. After being released in March, the album had already fallen out of the Billboard 200 by May, when the gifted performer put on an energetic show in San Jose that was marred by a “mediocre” songbook.
Once one of the most prominent male stars in American pop music, he has “become something of a musical afterthought in recent years,” the Times also said.
Some of Timberlake’s declining popularity has to do with his musical choices, but also to a larger social-cultural backlash in the wake of public re-evaluations of his relationship with Britney Spears, and how he navigated the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show incident that sent Janet Jackson into exile and largely left him unscathed, the Times also said.
This story will be updated.
