Bestselling author Jillian Lauren, who is the wife of Weezer bassist Scott Shriner, has filed for divorce after 20 years of marriage. Lauren cited “irreconcilable differences” as the reason for her decision, according to legal documents obtained by People.
The pair married in November 2005 and share two sons, Jovanni Starshine, 13, and Tariku Moon, 17. Lauren is seeking joint legal and physical custody, she has also requested spousal support and asked that the court’s ability to award Shriner spousal support be terminated, per the outlet.
The author — whose legal name is Jillian Lauren-Shriner but is professionally known as Jillian Lauren — is also asking that her last name be restored to Lauren, per People.
A representative for Lauren and Shriner did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The news arrives after Lauren was granted the right to enter a two-year mental health diversion program. After she completes the program as ordered, a judge is expected to dismiss the two felony charges filed against her in connection with the wild exchange of gunfire with LAPD officers that left her wounded outside of the couple’s home in Eagle Rock on April 8. Officials say she fired first.
According to the LAPD, Lauren racked her gun and fired it during a standoff with police officers who were in a neighboring yard conducting a search for hit-and-run suspects who had fled the scene of a nearby traffic collision earlier that day.
Although the author was not involved in the hit-and-run, police claimed that Lauren shot at officers who were on the other side of a fence. “The officers gave Shriner repeated verbal commands to drop the handgun, however, she did not comply,” LAPD Commander Alex Chogyoji previously said in a case overview video. “Moments later, Shriner racked the handgun, pointed it at the officers and fired, resulting in an officer involved shooting.”
Lauren was shot in the shoulder by a responding officer, then was taken to a hospital for treatment of a gunshot wound to her arm. She was later booked on suspicion of attempted murder and released on $1 million bail.
Prosecutors ultimately charged her with firing a gun with gross negligence and assault with a semiautomatic firearm. Lauren pled not guilty to the charges in May, and was granted a mental health diversion program, avoiding jail time, in September.
“We think this was the right resolution,” Lauren’s lawyer, Hilary Lee Potashner, told Rolling Stone at the time. The attorney and her co-counsel, Georgina Wakefield, said they were “very pleased” that Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Susan J. De Witt found Lauren eligible for the opportunity to have the case dismissed.
