Jillian Lauren, wife of Weezer bassist, avoids jail time after shooting at police officers

Jillian Lauren, the best-selling true-crime author and wife of Weezer bassist Scott Shriner, will avoid jail time after being arrested in connection with a bizarre standoff with Los Angeles police in April.

On Thursday, L.A. County Superior Court Judge Susan J. DeWitt granted Lauren, 52, a mental health diversion that was petitioned by the defense, a spokesperson from the L.A. County District Attorney’s Office confirmed to Entertainment Weekly.

Lauren “was ordered to have quarterly progress reports for the next two years,” the spokesperson added. “Any violation reported to the court may result in potential termination of the diversion. If she successfully completes the conditions of the diversion, the case will be dismissed by the court.”

Under the terms of the agreement, Lauren must avoid the use of drugs and alcohol, attend therapy, and not own firearms.

EW has reached out to representatives for Lauren for comment.

The development comes five months after Lauren’s convoluted incident with the LAPD, which began when three suspects in a misdemeanor hit-and-run allegedly fled the scene of a traffic accident on the 134 Freeway and escaped into a residential area in the neighborhood of Eagle Rock. Lauren was later determined to have no connection to the hit-and-run.

At the time, police said that they established a perimeter on Waldo Place after one of the suspects was allegedly spotted there, and that a nearby homeowner, later identified as Lauren, walked out of her house with a handgun.

According to a press release issued by the LAPD after the incident, Lauren “was struck by gunfire” in “an Officer-Involved Shooting” and retreated into her home before returning outside, where she was taken into custody.

The author was initially arrested on suspicion of attempted murder of a peace officer, a charge that can carry a lengthy prison sentence. Prosecutors eventually charged Lauren with assault and negligent discharge of a firearm.

Lauren has written two New York Times best-selling memoirs: 2010’s Everything You Ever Wanted and 2015’s Some Girls: My Life in a Harem, the latter of which chronicled her time as a concubine of Prince Jefri Bolkiah of Brunei.

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In 2021, Lauren appeared in the Starz docuseries Confronting a Serial Killer, which centers on the serial killer Samuel Little. She also wrote a 2023 book about Little, Behold the Monster: Facing America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer.

Lauren and Shriner have been married for 20 years.