Christina Aguilera arrested for intoxication
LOS ANGELES—Grammy-winning US pop singer Christina Aguilera was arrested in west Hollywood overnight for being intoxicated, police said Tuesday.
The singer was booked on a charge of public intoxication, after her boyfriend’s car was stopped and he was arrested for alleged drunk driving, said a local sheriff’s department spokesman, Steve Whitmore.
The car, in which Aguilera was allegedly riding, was stopped at around 2:45 a.m. (1045 GMT) near a west Hollywood night club, and Aguilera was booked at around 3:30 a.m. at the local sheriff’s office.
She was later released on $250 bail, said the spokesman, adding the star will not have to make a court appearance. Her boyfriend, Matthew Rutler, was also charged, but his bail has been set at $30,000, reports said.
Aguilera won the first of her four Grammys in 1999 as best new artist, followed by best pop collaboration in 2001, and best female pop vocal performance in 2003 and 2006.
Aguilera and her husband Jordan Bratman separated last year, five years after their 2005 wedding, although there were no divorce plans, People magazine reported in November.
