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Britney Spears’ ex-fiance Jason Trawick responds to claims they were secretly married
Jason Trawick and Britney Spears did not secretly get married back in 2012 (Picture: Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images)
Britney Spears’ ex-fiancé Jason Trawick has shot down rumors that they were secretly married before the couple split in 2013.
The talent agent responded to the claims made in the podcast, Toxic: The Britney Spears Story, as he sent Extra’s Billy Bush with a simple answer via text.
‘I believe you would have known if I was married,” the 49-year-old joked. ‘But you would have made a perfect usher’.
Speculation about the pair’s relationship came after the podcast questioned whether a payment for ‘consultation [on] dissolution of marriage’ found in an accounting report related to Britney’s ongoing conservatorship case meant that the pop star tied the knot with her then-fiancé.
Britney, now 39, began dating Jason, now 49, in 2009, when he was her agent, although he resigned the following year to avoid a conflict of interest.
They became engaged in December 2011, and Jason acted as co-conservator as Britney’s personal affairs until their split in April 2013.
Britney Spears and Jason Trawick began dating in 2009 before getting engaged in 2011 (Picture: Kevin Mazur/WireImage)
On Tuesday’s episode of Toxic, co-hosts Tess Barker and Babs Gray pointed out a $9,150 (£6,650) payment on October 1, 2012, for ‘consultation [on] dissolution of marriage’ in an accounting report.
The payment was listed under ‘conservatee’s legal fees’ and was made to the ‘law offices of Alexandra Leichter,’ a Beverly Hills-based family attorney, according to the podcast.
It’s been claimed a payment was made in October 2012 for a consultation on the dissolution of marriage while Britney and Jason were together (Picture: Michael Kovac/Getty Images for City of Hope)
Austin Bertrand, an estate specialist, speculated on the show: ‘My assumption would be that those were legal services that were rendered directly for [Spears’] benefit and nobody else’s. Dissolution of marriage’ only means one thing, which is divorce.’
Two other payments were made to Leichter’s office in the same year but were redacted from the report, with Bertrand saying: ‘It looks like they missed a redaction.’
Britney is currently fighting her conservatorship in a lengthy court case (Picture: Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic)
Jason and Britney continued to be pictured together after this payment was made.
Britney’s second marriage to Kevin Federline ended in November 2006, two years after they got married, with their divorce finalized on July 30, 2007.
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The Toxic singer’s first marriage to childhood friend Jason Alexander was annulled after 55 hours, after the pair got married in Las Vegas in January 2004.
Britney has been in a relationship with Sam Asghari, who she met on the set of her video for Slumber Party, in 2016, and signaled that she wants to marry the 27-year-old.
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