For the time being, Justin Timberlake is not allowed to drive in New York, after a judge suspended the star’s license as the DWI case against him moves forward. NBC New York’s Pei-Sze Cheng reports.
Justin Timberlake is due in court on Friday, where he is expected to plead guilty to a lesser charge related to his Hamptons intoxicated driving arrest from a few months ago, according to a Suffolk district attorney spokesperson.
It's not clear what the misdemeanor might be knocked down to, nor what if any fine might be involved.
Timberlake had his license suspended because he refused to take a breathalyzer at a traffic stop while in Sag Harbor back in June. He previously pleaded not guilty to a drunken driving charge, and his attorney insisted in early August that he was not intoxicated.
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Timberlake had been charged with the misdemeanor on June 18 after police said he ran a stop sign and veered out of his lane in Sag Harbor, a one-time whaling village mentioned in Herman Melville’s classic novel “Moby-Dick” that's nestled amid the Hamptons, around 100 miles east of New York City.
The boy band singer-turned-solo star and actor was driving a 2025 BMW around 12:30 a.m. when an officer stopped him and determined he was intoxicated, according to a court document.
“His eyes were bloodshot and glassy, a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage was emanating from his breath, he was unable to divide attention, he had slowed speech, he was unsteady afoot and he performed poorly on all standardized field sobriety tests,” the court papers said.
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Timberlake, 43, told the officer at the time that he had one martini and was following some friends home, according to the documents. After being arrested and taken to a police station in nearby East Hampton, he refused a breath test.
The 10-time Grammy winner began performing as a young Disney Mouseketeer, rose to fame as part of the boy band NSYNC and embarked on a solo recording career in the early 2000s.
