Weezer bassist Scott Shriner’s spouse, Jillian Lauren Shriner, has filed for divorce lower than one 12 months after her tried homicide arrest following a police shootout.
Jillian, 52, filed the paperwork on Tuesday, December 2, based on paperwork obtained by Us Weekly. She cited “irreconcilable variations” as the rationale for the cut up. (TMZ was first to report the information.)
Us Weekly has reached out to each events for remark.
Jillian, an writer who has been married to Scott, 60, for 20 years, didn’t listing a separation date inside her submitting. The paperwork additionally confirmed that she is looking for joint custody of the pair’s two sons, Tariku, 17, and Jovanni, 13.
Jillian attracted headlines in April when she was arrested for tried homicide following a police altercation. An April 9 press launch from the Los Angeles Police Division said that Jillian was arrested after authorities pursued a hit-and-run suspect the day gone by.
Through the police chase, authorities witnessed Jillian in a “neighbouring residence armed with a handgun.” The assertion detailed, “The officers ordered [Lauren] to drop the handgun quite a few instances. Nevertheless, she refused. [Lauren] then pointed the handgun on the officers and an Officer-Concerned Capturing occurred.”
Jillian was struck on the time by an officer’s firearm earlier than she bumped into the home the place a 9-milimeter handgun was recovered, per L.A. jail data considered by Us on the time. She was launched on a $1 million bond.
USA At this time reported in September {that a} choose “dominated that Jillian would endure a two-year psychological well being diversion program,” as shared with the outlet by Jillian’s lawyer Hilary Potashner on the time.
Potashner additionally famous through the outlet on September 26, “We recognize the DA rigorously reviewing this matter and consider this decision is honest.”
One month previous to Jillian’s arrest, she shared through Instagram that she was recovering from most cancers remedy. “I’d wish to thank the Academy, my wonderful hair and make-up staff, and the lighting designers right here at #glendaleadventisthospital,” Jillian wrote on March 4, sharing a pre-op selfie whereas mendacity in a hospital mattress. “As if all of them hadn’t been by way of sufficient with the fires proper subsequent door! Sure, I’ve just a little little bit of the C phrase y’all. I do know lots of us do.”
The put up continued, “I’m right here to thank the unimaginable oncology staff right here, who pulled me by way of a sophisticated operation with out a hitch. I’m at all times so grateful for each second of the compassionate and wonderful medical care I obtain in my life.”
Scott spoke about his estranged spouse’s arrest lower than one week after the incident occurred, telling TMZ that the pair had been getting by way of a “powerful time” amid the circumstances. “We’re alright, have a look at us,” he informed the outlet in April, including that Jillian was “alright” and thanking one of many outlet’s reporters for enquiring about her welfare.
Scott and Jillian tied the knot in November 2005 and adopted Tariku in 2007 earlier than adopting Jovanni in 2009. Previous to their marriage, Jillian labored as a name woman for Prince Jefri Bolkiah of the Brunei royal household — a time she detailed in her 2010 memoir, Some Women: My Life in a Harem.

