NEW YORK — Justin Timberlake has filed a lawsuit seeking to block the release of video from his Long Island DUI arrest, during which he told an officer the incident would “ruin” his world tour.

In court documents obtained by People, lawyers for the NSYNC alum argued that the release of the footage would essentially amount to an invasion of privacy and asked that the judge “enter an emergency stay prohibiting” its disclosure.

“The harm from public exposure—stigma, harassment, reputational injury, and the permanent loss of privacy—is immediate and irreparable,” the documents read.

His attorneys further argued that public distribution of the video would reveal the inside of Timberlake’s car, as well as “expose highly personal details unrelated to public oversight of governmental operations.” The footage also includes “intimate, highly personal, and sensitive details concerning [Timberlake] and his family, and includes information of medical, familial, otherwise confidential nature that is not necessary to inform the public about governmental operations or the performance of official duties.”

Timberlake’s petition was filed after the Sag Harbor Village Police Department, its Chief, Robert Drake, and the Village of Sag Harbor received a request for the release of the footage via the Freedom of Information Law.

Sag Harbor and its police department had intended to make public some clips, with “certain” redactions, Vincent Toomey, a lawyer for the Village of Sag Harbor, said in a statement NBC News.

“Mr. Timberlake sought a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to prevent the Village from doing so,” he added.

Timberlake was pulled over in the Hamptons in the early hours of June 18, 2024, shortly after leaving the American Hotel in Sag Harbor. The “Cry Me a River” crooner was stopped around 12:30 a.m., after police said his 2025 BMW blew through a stop sign, and then failed to stay in its lane.

Bodycam video from that night also allegedly shows Timberlake lamenting his arrest, telling an officer that it was going to “ruin the tour,” only for the officer to respond: “What tour?”

“The world tour,” Timberlake told him, referring to the Forget Tomorrow World Tour.

The Grammy-winner initially claimed he only had a single martini before getting behind the wheel, but the arresting officer said his eyes were bloodshot and glassy, and that his breath reeked of alcohol, according to a criminal complaint. He also performed “poorly on all standardized field sobriety tests” and thrice refused to take a breath test before he was charged with one misdemeanor count of driving while intoxicated.

He pleaded guilty on Sept. 13, 2024, to driving while impaired as part of plea deal that required him to do 25 to 40 hours of community service and pay a fine.

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