Britney Spears and Sam Asghari are officially divorced and single

Britney Spears and Sam Asghari are officially divorced and single.

The dissolution of the couple’s marriage was formalized Friday by a Los Angeles County judge, nearly two years after the two married.

The ruling comes hours after the 42-year-old pop superstar and the 30-year-old model and actor informed the court that they had reached a divorce settlement, and a week after Spears reached a court settlement with her father about persistent problems in their guardianship.

The couple filed court papers Thursday and Friday saying they had reached an agreement on dividing their assets. Few details were made public, but neither Spears nor Asghari will get spousal support in the future. Asghari had said in her initial petition that she would seek financial support. Any future disputes will have to be resolved in private arbitration.

Spears and Asghari separated in July, and he filed for divorce in August of last year. They had been a romantic couple for seven years.

They had no children together, so a custody agreement was not necessary. Spears wrote in her memoir, published last year, that she and Asghari had a miscarriage early in their pregnancy, about a month before they were married.

Emails seeking details or comment were sent to Spears and Asghari’s attorneys, with no immediate response.

Their marriage celebrated at their home in June 2022 in front of guests including Selena Gomez, Drew Barrymore, Paris Hilton and Madonna was seen as a triumphant milestone in Spears’ newly recovered life after she was released a few months early from the court guardianship that controlled his life and finances for more than 13 years.

But the couple separated just over a year later.

Last Friday, Spears and her father, Jamie Spears, reached a settlement over lingering issues with that conservatorship, avoiding what could have been a long, ugly and revealing trial that was scheduled to begin later this month.

Spears has said little publicly about her split with Asghari

In an Instagram post shortly after filing for divorce, she wrote, “I’m not here to explain why because it’s really no one’s business!! But honestly, I couldn’t take the pain anymore!!”

In her memoir, “The Woman in Me,” published two months after Asghari filed for divorce, Spears speaks briefly and positively about him. She describes him holding her hand as she addressed a judge remotely during a key hearing that helped end her conservatorship.

Like the vast majority of those who file for divorce in California, Asghari cited irreconcilable differences as the reason for the separation.

It was Spears’ third marriage. The singer has two teenage children with her previous husband, Kevin Federline, to whom she was married from 2004 to 2007, a time when intense media scrutiny caused her emotional difficulties.

Spears was also married for less than three days in 2004 to her childhood friend Jason Alexander, who tried to crash her wedding to Asghari and was later convicted of misdemeanor breaking and entering and battery.

Spears met and began dating Asghari, a model and actor, when he participated in the video for her 2016 song “Slumber Party.”

The artist argued her desire to marry him as one of the reasons she wanted to end her restrictive guardianship, which she said prevented her from doing so. The two announced their engagement in September 2021.

Since the conservatorship ended, Spears has released music, including a collaboration with Elton John in 2022. But she has not performed live and said she has no intention of doing shows or a new album.