Britney Spears: No charges against Victor Wembanyama's guard who 'struck' pop star

A information defender who allegedly struck Britney Spears portion protecting French basketballer Victor Wembanyama successful Las Vegas connected Wednesday volition not beryllium charged.

Spears claimed connected societal media that she was "backhanded successful the face" by the man, calling the incidental a "traumatic experience" she was unprepared for.

Las Vegas constabulary confirmed they had concluded their probe of the alleged artillery astatine the Aria hotel.

Wembanyama has said helium "didn't spot what happened", but that idiosyncratic was pushed.

The 19-year-old NBA apical draught prime was successful Las Vegas up of his archetypal Summer League crippled erstwhile helium visited a edifice astatine the Aria, connected South Las Vegas Boulevard, wherever Spears said she spotted him.

"I decided to attack him and congratulate him connected his success. It was truly loud, truthful I tapped him connected the enarthrosis to get his attention," she said.

A information defender protecting Wembanyama is past said to person struck her successful the look with the backmost of his hand, causing her glasses to autumn disconnected arsenic she astir fell to the ground, Spears alleged.

Spears said she had seen Wembanyama's relationship of the incidental which prompted her to stock her own.

Wembanyama had told a section quality reporter: "I couldn't stop. That idiosyncratic was calling me, 'Sir, sir,' and that idiosyncratic grabbed maine from behind.

"I didn't spot what happened due to the fact that I was walking consecutive and didn't stop. That idiosyncratic grabbed maine from down - not connected my shoulder, she grabbed maine from behind.

"I conscionable cognize the information pushed her away. I don't cognize with however overmuch unit but information pushed her away. I didn't halt to look truthful I could locomotion successful and bask a bully dinner."

Spears said she wanted "to impulse radical successful the nationalist oculus to acceptable an example" and thanked the Las Vegas Police Department for its support.

Last year, Spears, 41, joined her agelong clip spouse Sam Asghari.

Mr Asghari, 29, came to her defence connected societal media, writing: "I anticipation the antheral successful question learns a acquisition and changes his disregard for women."

In 2021, Spears was released from a arguable 13-year conservatorship which gave her father, Jamie Spears, sweeping power implicit her life.

The signifier of ineligible guardianship held powerfulness implicit her finances and vocation decisions positive large idiosyncratic matters, specified arsenic her visits to her teenage sons and whether she could get remarried.