Sam Asghari filed for divorce from his spouse Britney Spears on Wednesday, a supply advised PEOPLE.
A supervisor for Asghari, 29, declined to remark. A rep for Spears, 41, has not responded to requests for remark.
ET was the primary to report information of the divorce submitting.
A number of sources confirmed to PEOPLE earlier Wednesday that Spears and Asghari had separated.
TMZ was the primary to report the information of their cut up.
After assembly in 2016 on the set of Spears’ “Slumber Get together” music video set, the couple married in June 2022.
Nevertheless, in February, sources advised PEOPLE that Spears’ inside circle had “grown involved.”
Rumors started circulating in March that the couple have been having marital struggles — however Asghari’s rep, Brandon Cohen from BAC Expertise, shut them down on the time.
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When addressing pictures that confirmed Asghari and Spears with out their wedding ceremony bands, Cohen advised PEOPLE that Asghari merely took off his ring as a result of he was filming a film. Whereas it was unclear what film Asghari was filming, he introduced in November that he landed a task within the Taylor Sheridan-created tv collection, Lioness.
Earlier than they tied the knot, Asghari performed a task in supporting the pop star amid her psychological well being therapy in 2019.
Spears checked right into a facility for “all-encompassing wellness therapy” in April 2019, and Asghari stepped in to play a much bigger function in supporting Spears as she dealt along with her father’s well being scare.
A Spears household supply advised PEOPLE, “There isn’t any query that Sam is nice for Britney. He has a really constructive affect on her. He’s very motivated to remain wholesome and match, and so they usually work out collectively.”
Asghari has additionally supported Spears throughout her conservatorship battle.
After the pop star spoke at a conservatorship listening to in Los Angeles in June 2021, spending half-hour telling Choose Brenda Penny by telephone, “I am not blissful. I am unable to sleep. I am depressed. I cry each day, a supply advised PEOPLE that Asghari — who wore a #FreeBritney T-shirt on his Instagram Story forward of the listening to — had been the singer’s “rock.”
“Sam has been Britney’s rock for years. He makes certain that she eats nicely and works out,” the supply says about Spears’ boyfriend on the time. “She leans on him for every part. He works and has his personal life too, however is round as a lot as he can.”
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