Weezer bassist Scott Shriner’s wife, author Jillian Lauren-Shriner, has reportedly filed for divorce from the rocker after 20 years of marriage. According to People, Lauren-Shriner, 52, cited “irreconcilable differences” as the reason for the split, with no additional information available on the filing date, including the date of separation.
The filing came eight months after Lauren-Shriner was shot by police near the couple’s home on April 8 in Los Angeles in the midst of a manhunt for three suspects in an alleged hit-and-run in the couple’s Eagle Rock neighborhood. According to police, while Lauren-Shriner was not involved in the hit-and-run incident, she allegedly fired a weapon at an officer while in a backyard after officials said she repeatedly ignored their commands to drop her gun.
Lauren-Shriner was charged with two felony counts in the incident and pled not guilty on May 13 to charges of discharging a firearm with gross negligence and assault with a semiautomatic firearm; those charges were less severe than the initial charges the author faced when she was booked on suspicion of attempted murder following the bizarre incident.
Officers said that when the LAPD encountered Lauren-Shriner she refused to lower her weapon and aimed it at officers, leading to a shootout in which she sustained a non-life-threatening wound to the shoulder; no officers were injured in the incident. She was allowed to enter a two-year mental health diversion program instead of doing jail time, according to documents reportedly obtained by People.
At press time a spokesperson for Weezer had not returned Billboard‘s request for confirmation of the divorce proceedings.
The couple, who married in Nov. 2005 in Hawaii, have two children, son Jovanni Starshine, 13 and Tariku Moon, 17, and Lauren-Shriner is reportedly seeking joint legal and physical custody. She is also reportedly asking for spousal support and and that Shriner, 60, pay her attorney fees and that her last name be restored to Lauren.
Lauren-Shriner revealed on Instagram in March that she had been diagnosed with cancer and that she’d undergone two back-to-back surgeries, including a full hysterectomy.
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