NEW YORK — Actor and singer Justin Timberlake is due in court Friday, where he is expected to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge related to his drunken driving arrest in the Hamptons earlier this year, a spokesman for the Suffolk District Attorney said.
Details were not immediately clear ahead of the hearing. It was also unclear whether Timberlake would speak to reporters.
Timberlake had his license suspended because he refused to take a breathalyzer at a traffic stop in Sag Harbor in June. He previously pleaded not guilty to a drunken driving charge and his attorney insisted in early August that he was not intoxicated.
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 former whaling village mentioned in Herman Melville’s classic novel “Moby-Dick” that is located in the middle of the Hamptons, about 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 pulled him over and determined he was intoxicated, according to a court document.
“His eyes were red and glazed over, a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage emanated from his breath, he was unable to divide his attention, his speech was slow, he was stumbling, and he performed poorly on all standardized sobriety tests,” the court documents said.
Timberlake, 43, told the officer at the time that he consumed a martini and was following some friends home, the documents said. After being arrested and taken to a police station in nearby East Hampton, he refused to submit to a breathalyzer test.
The 10-time Grammy Award 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.