Christina Aguilera, Bratman divorce 'finalised'

Christina Aguilera's divorce from former husband Jordan Bratman has been finalised, according to court filings.

In October 2010, the couple officially announced their split, with Aguilera filing for divorce just days later.
According to a legal settlement reached in February, Aguilera and her former husband's marriage was legally dissolved today, April 15, following the conclusion of a six-month processing period required by California law.

Neither Aguilera nor Bratman have commented at this time, but the Voice judge recently claimed that she's learned to laugh about "hiccups" in her personal life.

The pair first began dating in 2002 and tied the knot three years later in a private ceremony in Napa Valley. They are the parents to 3-year-old son Max.

After confirming their split last year, Aguilera revealed that her relationship with Bratman had grown to be "unhealthy and unhappy" in the ensuing years since their wedding.

In March, the singer was arrested for public intoxication in Los Angeles while her current boyfriend Matthew Rutler was charged with driving under the influence.

Christina Aguilera in lawsuit over 'stolen song'

Christina Aguilera has been involved in a lawsuit over allegations bosses at her record label sampled a 1968 song in her track 'Ain''t No Other Man' without paying the rightful owner.

TMZ said that the singer''s hit single uses a beat from Dave Cortez and the Moon People''s soul song ‘Hippy Skippy Moon Strut’, reports the Daily Express.

According to legal papers, filed in New York, TufAmerica bought the exclusive rights to the original song in 2004, but Aguilera''s label bosses at Sony made a deal with Codigo Music and the Clyde Otis Music Group to use the record.

Heads at TufAmerica are now asking a court to declare them the rightful owner of the song and are seeking damages.

Christina Aguilera has been released

Christina Aguilera has been released from police custody after she was arrested in the early hours of Tuesday for being drunk in public.

A Los Angeles sheriff''s spokesman said the 30-year-old singer was a passenger in a car driven by her boyfriend Matthew Rutler in West Hollywood when police pulled him over for driving erratically at around 2.45 am on Tuesday, reports the Daily Mail.

Aguilera was taken into custody because she 'was not capable of taking care of herself', he added.

Rutler, 25, was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence and was released from jail on 30,000-dollars bail.

Aguilera, mother of one, hid her face as she was driven home from the West Hollywood police station at 7.30am.

"It was kind of a unique situation with this law as she was not capable of taking care of herself. She was incapacitated," said Steve Whitmore, the chief public information officer for the Los Angeles Sheriffs department.

"When she got out of the car, she couldn''t stand. We had to help her stand. She didn''t know where she was and she didn''t know her own address. We took her into custody for her own protection," he added.

Whitmore said the Sheriff''s department had no intention of pressing charges on the singer but noted that she would have an arrest record.