Britney Spears weds -- but will annul marriage
Monday, January 5, 2004 Posted: 7:47 AM EST (1247 GMT)
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Jason Allen Alexander took Spears' hand in marriage at Las Vegas' famed Little White Wedding Chapel.
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People Magazine's Mike Fleeman has the scoop on pop star Britney Spear's marriage and reported annulment
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LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Pop
star Britney Spears married a childhood friend from Louisiana in an
early morning ceremony, but quickly arranged to have it annulled, a
source close to the singer told The Associated Press on Sunday.
George Maloof Jr., owner and operator of the Palms Casino Hotel,
confirmed that the 22-year-old Spears married Jason Allen Alexander of
Kentwood, Louisiana, about 5:30 a.m. Saturday at a Las Vegas wedding
chapel.
"Nobody knew it was coming," said Maloof, Spears' good friend. The
two arranged an annulment Saturday afternoon in the presence of several
people, including a Las Vegas lawyer, said a source close to Spears who
spoke on condition of anonymity. The signed annulment will be filed
when the courts open Monday morning, the source said.
Calls to Spears' representatives were not immediately returned.
Spears and Alexander journeyed by limousine to the Little White
Wedding Chapel on the Strip after a stop at the Ghostbar, a club in the
Palms Casino Hotel. The chapel staff told the couple they couldn't get
married without a license, so they were taken to get a license and
driven back to the chapel, where they were married.
The bride wore a baseball cap and torn jeans down the aisle and was
escorted by a Palms limousine driver, the source told the AP.
Maloof denied rumors that Spears was drunk and had to be carried out of the Rain nightclub inside the Palms on New Year's Eve.
"I was with her the whole night," he said. "None of those reports were accurate. She was just having a good time."
Spears was still staying at the Palms and was expected to leave Sunday. Employees at the chapel declined comment.
Alexander was back in his hometown Sunday, according to his grandfather, Robert Alexander.
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Britney Spears, 22, walked down the aisle in blue jeans and a baseball cap, according to People.com.
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"He'd been through a lot. We picked him up in New Orleans coming
back and he didn't have much to say," the elder Alexander told
Entertainment Tonight.
"I wish them well," he said. "Whatever happens, happens."
He said Spears and Alexander had also spent Christmas Eve together.
Calls to Alexander's family home in Kentwood, La. were answered by a
machine. His grandmother said any details about the wedding would have
to come from Jason or his father.
"We know about the wedding and stuff. It's all over the news," Betty Alexander said.
Spears released her fourth album, In the Zone, last November. It
debuted at the top of the album charts. She begins a concert tour March
2 in San Diego.
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