Justin Timberlake will make a virtual appearance Friday in a Long Island courtroom to be re-arraigned in his drunk driving case.
It comes a week after Timberlake’s attorney, Edward Burke, vehemently denied the singer was drunk when he was pulled over in the early hours of June 18, shortly after leaving The American Hotel in Sag Harbor. The “Cry Me a River” crooner was stopped around 12:30 a.m., after police said his 2025 BMW blew through a stop sign, and then failed to stay on the proper side of the road.
Timberlake claimed he only had a single martini that night, but the arresting officer said his eyes were bloodshot and glassy, while his breath smelled of alcohol, according to a criminal complaint. He also performed “poorly on all standardized field sobriety tests” and thrice refused to take a breath test before he was charged with one misdemeanor count of driving while intoxicated.
“He was not intoxicated,” Burke told reporters. “I’ll say it again. Justin Timberlake was not intoxicated.”
The 43-year-old Grammy winner was also cited for running a stop sign and failure to stay in his lane. He was released without bond the morning after his arrest, and he went on to perform two nights in Madison Square Garden as part of his “Forget Tomorrow World Tour.”
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Justin Timberlake’s attorney, Edward Burke Jr., speaks to the press after a hearing in Sag Harbor on Friday, July 26, 2024. (Theodore Parisienne for New York Daily News)
Burke last week requested that charges against Timberlake be tossed, citing “a number of very significant errors” in documents submitted by police. Instead, Sag Harbor Justice Carl Irace ordered him to be re-arraigned with the corrected paperwork. He also agreed the former boy bander, who is on the European leg of his world tour, could appear virtually.
Timberlake has two shows scheduled in Antwerp, Belgium this weekend.
