Jason Alexander: who is Britney Spears’ ex, when was their Vegas wedding - why is he wanted by police?

Britney Spears’ former husband Jason Alexander has had a fresh warrant for his arrest issued by police after failing to turn up in Napa court in regards to an incident that occurred in 2015.

Alexander was recently convicted of aggravated tresspassing and battery after turning up unannounced at the singers home in Los Angeles and attempting to crash her wedding to Sam Asghari.

Alexander, who was briefly married to Spears in 2004 for a grand total of 55 hours, live streamed his efforts to disrupt the wedding on Instagram.

This is everything you need to know.

Who is Jason Alexander?

Jason Alexander was a childhood friend of Spears, who grew up with the singer in Louisiana before she became a worldwide celebrity.

Alexander was Spears’ first husband, a childhood friend whom she married in January 2004 at the Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada. At the time, both Spears and Alexander were 22-years-old.

However, after 55 hours of married life, Spears filed for annulment, stating in the petition that she “lacked understanding of her actions to the extent that she was incapable of agreeing to the marriage”.

Their marriage was quickly annulled, with Spears’ attorney at the time, David Chesnoff, saying: “There is no marriage now.

“Jason agreed to this completely. They’ve made a wise decision. I know they care about each other. They are friends.”

Talking to Access Hollywood in an interview after the annulment, Alexander said: “It was just crazy, man.

“We were just looking at each other and said, “Let’s do something wild, crazy. Let’s go get married, just for the hell of it”.”

In the months after dissolving their marriage, Spears told E! that the marriage was just her “being silly”.

She said: “It was me being silly, being rebellious, and not really taking the responsibility of what I was doing, you know?

“And after partying, you know, you really don’t think about what you’re doing. So it was one of those things that were really silly.”

In July 2021, Alexander spoke further about the marriage in an episode of Toxic: The Britney Spears Story podcast, where he claimed that Spears had asked him to get married in a spur of the moment conversation.

He said: “We felt like this was a way that would bond us together, regardless of how far we are separated. We’re married. You can’t not let us reunite.”

Alexander claimed that, after the wedding at the chapel, they “consummated the marriage in the limousine on the way back to the hotel”.

He said: “Then we got back to the hotel, “Hey, guess what? We’re married!” and everybody freaked out and no one was happy. And I was like, “Oh, this is about to get interesting”.”

Alexander then continued on to say that he felt he was tricked into going through with the annulment.

He said: “So we were talking every day and I still believed the story I was told, that they were going to let us continue to talk and then we would have this marriage in the future if we felt the same way.”

He claimed that he was told he could remain in a relationship with Spears after the annulment was confirmed, and explained that his lawyers had said that he had 30 days to contest the annulment.

However, when those 30 days were up, he claimed that Spears’ phone number was suddenly no longer in service.

What happened at Britney Spears’ wedding?

On the day of Spears and Aghari’s wedding on Thursday 9 June, Alexander turned up at Spears’ home in Los Angeles where they were getting married.

He began live streaming on Instagram and, approaching the security, said that Spears had invited him to the event.

He said: “[Spears] is my first wife, my only wife. I’m her first husband. I’m here to crash the wedding.”

After a struggle with security, Alexander was able to make it inside Spears’ home, where he continued to live stream from his phone.

Richard Eubler, a since-fired security guard for Spears, testified that Alexander got inside her house and up to the locked door of Spears’ bedroom while she was inside.

The ex-guard said Alexander had also tried to enter the property in the days before the wedding.

Eventually Alexander was restrained and then arrested by officers from the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department who responded to an incident of alleged trespassing.

The day after the wedding, Spears and Asghari obtained an emergency protective order in court against Alexander, according to Spears’ lawyer Mathew Rosengart.

What was he charged with?

Alexander was charged with felony stalking following the incident at Spears’ wedding at her home in Los Angeles.

He pleaded not guilty to the charge, as well as four misdemeanours at a court in Ventura County.

He faced two counts of misdemeanour battery, one count of misdemeanour vandalism and and one count of misdemeanour trespassing.

Speaking to the PA news agency at the time of Alexander’s arrest, Sergeant Cyrus Zadeh said that during an altercation with security officers, items had been broken.

Zadeh said: “[Alexander] was able to find his way onto the property and was confronted by security.

“An altercation occurred with the security officers and that’s where the battery occurred… and during the altercation an item was broken so that’s where the vandalism comes into play.

“And by being on private property, the trespass comes into play.”

He was ultimately convicted of aggravated trespassing and battery for crashing Spears’ wedding, however prosecutors dropped the stalking charge.

The 40-year-old was sentenced to the 64 days he had already served in jail.

Is he wanted by police?

Alexander is currently wanted by the police after he missed his most recent court date. The court date is in regards to an incident that occurred in 2015 when a woman accused him of stealing a bracelet worth $2,000.

At the time, Alexander was charged with two felony counts of grand theft and buying/receiving stolen property.

The authorities were alerted to the outstanding case after Alexander was arrested for crashing Spears’ wedding in June.

After completing his 60 day jail sentence, Alexander was extradited to Napa to face the charges in reference to the bracelet. He was instructed to return to the Napa court on 13 September, and had his bail set at $20,000, however he failed to show up.

As a result of missing his court date, the police have reportedly issued a fresh warrant for Alexander’s arrest.

Henry Wofford, spokesman for Napa County Sheriff’s Office, said that Alexander’s alleged crimes had been carried out in 2015, when he rented a room from a woman in Napa County.

Wofford said: “She had a room to rent and she was looking for a tenant to rent the room. A friend recommended Mr Alexander.

“Mr Alexander moved there and within the first month of living there the homeowner realised her $2,000 bracelet was missing from her bedroom.

“She asked Mr Alexander did he steal the bracelet, he said no and eventually moved out.

“She contacted him again and Mr Alexander admitted that he did steal her bracelet and he pawned it at a local pawn shop.”

The woman was unsuccessful in getting her bracelet from the pawn shop which was when she contacted the sheriff’s department - however, by the time that she filed a report in 2016, Alexander had already left the state.