Justin Timberlake has filed a lawsuit in opposition to the Sag Harbor Police Division in an try and cease the discharge of bodycam footage from his 2024 DWI arrest, Us Weekly can affirm.
New court docket paperwork filed by Timberlake, 45, on Monday, March 2, acknowledged that the singer desires an order from a Suffolk County Supreme Court docket decide to forestall the general public dissemination of footage from his site visitors cease on June 18, 2024, arguing that it “constitutes an unwarranted invasion of non-public privateness.”
Timberlake took authorized motion after a Freedom of Data Act (FOIA) request filed by members of the media in an effort to acquire the recording.
Within the court docket docs obtained by UsTimberlake argued that he’s proven “in an acutely weak state throughout a roadside encounter with regulation enforcement.”
Justin Timberlake claimed to regulation enforcement that he solely had one alcoholic beverage earlier than he was arrested on DWI-related expenses. Based on court docket paperwork obtained by CNN on Tuesday, June 18, when Timberlake, 43, encountered police on the site visitors cease, he allegedly advised them he “had one martini and I adopted my mates dwelling.” Per (…)
The paperwork additionally claimed that the bodycam video captured “intimate particulars” of Timberlake’s “bodily look, demeanor, speech and conduct” throughout his subject sobriety check and arrest.
The lawyer representing Timberlake, Michael Del Pianoclaimed that releasing the footage “would trigger extreme and irreparable hurt” to Timberlake’s “private {and professional} popularity” and topic him “to public ridicule and harassment.”
Moreover, they argued that it might “serve no cognizable public curiosity.”
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(Picture by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Pictures)“Upon info and perception, the bodycam footage captures roughly eight (8) hours of steady recording and encroaches upon areas of Petitioner’s life and emotional state that don’t have any relevance in any respect to Petitioner’s arrest,” per the docs.
Timberlake was doing a world tour on the time and had been having fun with an evening out on the American Resort when he was pulled over in his BMW and subsequently charged with driving whereas intoxicated. His glassy-eyed mugshot later went viral.
The previous ‘NSync icon in the end pleaded responsible to driving whereas impaired following his arrest within the Hamptons. This improvement got here after a decide signed off on his plea deal to formally drop Timberlake’s DWI (driving whereas intoxicated) cost, as an alternative leaving him with a site visitors violation.
Per his plea deal, Timberlake was ordered to finish 25 to 40 hours of neighborhood service with a nonprofit of his selecting and pay a $500 advantageous.
He was additionally required to problem a public security announcement.
Matt Agudo/INSTARimages Justin Timberlake was seen leaving a police station within the Hamptons together with his lawyer, Ed Burke, lower than 24 hours after his arrest on DWI-related expenses. Timberlake, 43, wore a black short-sleeve button-up over a T-shirt, a black baseball cap, sun shades, mild wash denims and white sneakers whereas leaving the station in Sag Harbor (…)
“I attempt to maintain myself to a really excessive commonplace for myself — and this was not that,” he advised reporters throughout his court docket look in September 2024, in accordance with ABC Information. “I discovered myself ready the place I might’ve made a special choice. However I’ve had a while to replicate on that.”
He continued, “What I’d prefer to say to everybody watching and listening: Even should you’ve had one drink, don’t get behind the wheel of a automobile. There’s so many alternate options. Name a buddy, take an Uber, there’s many journey apps (or) take a taxi. This can be a mistake that I made, however I’m hoping that whoever is watching and listening proper now can be taught from this error.”
On the time, an insider completely advised Us that his spouse, Jessica Bielwas “extraordinarily upset” about her husband’s arrest. “She was shocked to listen to the information and had no thought as she was working,” the supply revealed in June 2024. “She was actually fearful about him.”