Britney Spears’ husband files for divorce

Britney Spears and Sam Asghari have separated after a year of marriage.

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00:00Britney Spears' husband Sam Asghari has filed for divorce from the singer after 14 months of

00:05marriage and nearly 7 years together. The two met on the set of Spears' Slumber Party music video in

00:102016 and began dating shortly thereafter. The couple announced their engagement in September

00:15of 2021, just two months before Spears was freed from her conservatorship, which controlled her

00:20life for more than 13 years. Spears said her desire to marry Asghari was one of the reasons

00:24she wanted to end the conservatorship, which she said was preventing it. They then had a small but

00:29star-studded wedding ceremony in June of 2022 that included guests like Madonna, Selena Gomez,

00:34and Paris Hilton. A month before the wedding, Spears and Asghari shared that she had a miscarriage

00:39after revealing she was pregnant the previous month. Spears has not yet publicly addressed

00:43the reported split. Her most recent Instagram post, published after the news broke,

00:47only discussed her plans to buy a horse.