Cnn.com: Singer and friend married "for the hell of it"

LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- Britney Spears' marriage to childhood friend Jason Allan Alexander was annulled Monday, her attorney David Chesnoff told CNN.

Contending she "lacked understanding of her actions," lawyers for pop star Britney Spears asked a county court in Nevada to annul her Las Vegas marriage to a childhood friend over the weekend.

Spears, 23, married Jason Allan Alexander of Kentwood, La., early Saturday.

The request for annulment was signed by Spears, but not by Alexander.

The document, filed in Clark County District Court, says of the union: "Upon learning of each other's desires, they are so incompatible that there was a want of understanding of each other's actions in entering into this marriage."

In addition, "the plaintiff and defendant did not know each other's likes and dislikes," according to the document.

Clark County Family Court Judge Lisa M. Brown signed the order at 12:24 p.m., Chesnoff said.

"There is no marriage now," Chesnoff told The Associated Press. "Jason agreed to this completely. They've made a wise decision. I know they care about each other. They are friends."

The 22-year-old pop star married Alexander -- who hails from Spears' hometown of Kentwood, Louisiana -- about 5:30 a.m. Saturday at a Las Vegas wedding chapel. Alexander said he and Spears hatched the idea to get hitched early Saturday morning.

"It was just crazy, man," the 22-year-old told "Access Hollywood" in an interview at his home Monday morning. "And we were just looking at each other and said, 'Let's do something wild, crazy. Let's go get married, just for the hell of it.' "

Spears' record label, Jive Records, released a statement to "Entertainment Tonight" saying that Spears and Alexander "took a joke too far."

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Interview with Jason Alexander

Billy Bush: What a day for you? Tell me what happened?

Jason Alexander: What happened in Vegas?

Billy: Yeah, man.

Jason: We went to Vegas for New Year's Eve to have a good time. You know, relax, just cut loose a little bit and get away from everything. And I don't know, it was a couple days after New Year's I guess. We had bee having a good time.

Billy: Did she just call you and say, 'Come to Vegas.' Or have you guys been friends?

Jason: Well, she came down for Christmas Eve and then she asked me to go to Vegas with her. But we've been friends for a long time. We've done different things in the past. It wasn't anything new.

Billy: Where did you meet? Just around town?

Jason: No, we grew up together. Her mom used to own a kindergarten pre-school. I went to school with her there. I've just known her forever. Her family is good friends with my family, and just that kind of thing -- relationship like that.

Billy: So she just said, 'Let's go to Vegas. We're going to Vegas?'

Jason: Yep, she called me up the night before New Year's Eve and said, 'Lets go to Vegas.' I was like, 'Alright, cool.' I got everything ready and left and went to Vegas. We had a really good night. Then Saturday night... Was it Saturday night was January 3? It was Saturday morning actually. We were sitting in the room and it was just crazy and we were looking out the windows and looking at the lights and the city. We were like this is a real pretty, beautiful night. It was cool and we were looking at each other and we were like, 'Lets do something wild and crazy and lets go get married just for the hell of it. Lets go.' So we just got up and said, 'Lets go do it.'

Billy: Because you're 22, why not?

Jason: Why not? So we went to the chapel and we set everything up and we got married. We did everything -- the whole pictures and everything.

Billy: But you went back and you got a license, too. Didn't they say you needed a license?

Jason: Actually you have to have a license, you know. And we wasn't really wanting anything to be official, you know, like the official marriage thing. It was more for just the whole deal of just getting married. But we ended up having to get a marriage license, so we went and go it. We got back with the license and we sat in the car and we were like, 'Are we going to do this?' And we decided on, 'Yeah, we're gonna do it.'

Billy: What was her attitude? Was she just having fun like, 'Yes Yes?' Or were you both a little like, 'Should we do it?'

Jason: We were both like, 'Yes, yes!' on the outside, and I think we were both on the inside like, 'I don't know?'

Billy: It's that nervous kind of danger. It's a little bit like, 'This might be wrong.'

Jason: Yeah, so we went ahead and did the whole thing and we got back to the room and we decided that's when we needed to tell everybody what we done did. Then that's when all hell broke loose and we realized what we did probably wasn't the right thing we should've done and wasn't the right way to go about it. We needed to fix the problem -- the mistake we had made -- so that's when the annulment came in. We got the annulment which I think is finalized today.

Billy: Who was the first person to say, 'Hey, this might be the wrong thing.'

Jason: Well, we both did. After everything was kind of talked about and it was out, you know, we both sat down and talked. We were like, 'Maybe that was not a very cool thing we should've done,' or 'That probably wasn't the right way or the right thing that we did.'

Billy: You could've done that with any girl in the world, but it happens to be Britney Spears.

Jason: Well, you know, I don't really... Britney is -- like I said -- a very good friend of mine. We have a really good relationship and just from being around her so much, and before she was Britney Spears, I just never really have thought of her as the way everybody else does. So to me it wasn't really that big of a deal that I was marrying Britney Spears, but obviously somebody does.

Billy: As we speak right now, she could be Britney Alexander.

Jason: Or I could be Jason Spears.

Billy: Take what you can get, right?

Jason: Yeah.

Billy: What happens now?

Jason: From here we're friends. We're going to remain friends. As far as anything else goes, I don't know what's going to happen. I don't know from here.

Billy: Before Christmas Eve, was there a romance? Was there love?

Jason: Definitely. There has probably been some romance there, but nothing like a boyfriend/girlfriend type thing ever. It was more than just a friendship -- a good real relationship -- and it just led to a one-night marriage in Vegas. I guess it was fun... No, it was more than just fun.

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Official court documents of the annulment

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Picture From the day of the wedding

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Jason Alexander got a criminal record in 2003

Jason Alexander was arrested in 2003 at a bar and grill for fighting, battery and refusal to leave. I actually feel sorry for this guy cause so much will be said about him (bad) for the next couple weeks to months and that's sad because that's his personal business and newspapers and tabloids will do anything to get a story.

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Britney gets married at 5am on saturday morning (1-3-04)

Rumors were flying late Saturday that the surprise wedding at the Little White Wedding Chapel on the Las Vegas Strip was in the process of being annulled. There were numerous reports that a bellman from the Palms hotel walked her down the aisle.

Documents filed Saturday with the Clark County marriage bureau showed that Spears, 22, of Kentwood, La., and Jason Allen Alexander, 22, also of Kentwood were granted a marriage license. It is the first marriage for each.

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Britney spears marriage license yup its official

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