From the phase to the slammer.
“American Idol” winner Laine Hardy was at the rear of bars Friday immediately after currently being billed with planting a listening gadget in his ex-girlfriend’s dwelling quarters at Louisiana Point out College.
The nation crooner, 21, was taken into custody immediately after his former flame identified the voice recorder at her campus accommodation this month.
The feminine college student is not named in the booking document produced Friday by the 19th Judicial District Court docket in East Baton Rouge — but the report does state that she dated Hardy among November 2021 and February 2022.
The “Memorize You” singer has been notoriously non-public about his own existence and did not debut a girlfriend throughout people dates.
The singing sensation has held tight-lipped about his courting lifetime given that profitable “American Idol” back again in 2019. Even so, he has been linked to two diverse women of all ages in the course of that time period.
Hardy appears to have had a two-calendar year on-off once more romance with higher faculty grad Gracie Lee, 19, right before it formally ended very last summer.
Meanwhile, in 2020, nearby shops claimed the crooner was connected to LSU student and pageant queen, Sydney Taylor, 20. The pair both of those contracted COVID-19 following being snapped canoodling with a person a different.
Neither Taylor nor Lee are thought to be linked to the existing criminal case. The Put up has contacted both girls — and Hardy — for remark.
Gracie Lee appears to be to have been Hardy’s longest appreciate, with the pair showing up to day on and off for two years.
In June of past year, Hardy took to Instagram sharing a sequence of images with the brunette, implying that they ended up back alongside one another right after a transient hiatus.
“Just wanted to say I’m really grateful for this woman right listed here,” the “Memorize You” singer captioned his write-up, without explicitly calling her his girlfriend.
“She’s a keeper Laine, really don't permit her go yet again. If you do, it will be a significant reduction you’ll by no means get back,” one admirer — who experienced seemingly adopted their romance — warned.
In the meantime, Lee’s website page options a number of images with Hardy, stretching again to 2019.
In November of that yr — just 6 months right after Hardy took residence the “American Idol” title — she posted a couple snap with the caption: “My honey.”
3 months later on, on February 14, she shared a Valentine’s Day tribute declaring she was in really like with the singer.
In the meantime, Hardy appears in a number of Lee’s other snaps, before she stopped sharing pictures of him last summer.
“Are they even now together? There are no posts lately of them with each other so I am wanting to know?” 1 anxious supporter publicly posted right after the couple pictures dried up.
In the meantime, it appears Hardy savored a fling with amazing Sydney Taylor in the summer time of 2020 — even though seemingly on a crack with Lee.
A giddy Hardy took to his general public Facebook on June 21, 2020, sharing a photograph that showed him cozied up with the leggy blonde — who was crowned Miss Teen Louisiana 2020.
Afterwards that very same working day, he returned to Facebook to announce that he contracted COVID-19.
Two times later on, Taylor — who experiments mass communications at LSU — introduced that she, as well, had come down with the virus. An post in The Advocate at the time described Taylor as Hardy’s “girlfriend.”
It is unclear when they break up, but she now seems to be courting LSU baseball star, Trey Shaffer.
On Friday morning, Hardy was taken into custody right after staying billed with leaving the listening gadget in his unnamed ex’s home.
LSU spokesman Ernie Ballard told The Post in a statement: “Laine Reed Hardy (Non-LSU scholar) was arrested by LSU Police right now and booked into East Baton Rouge Parish Prison for violation of 15:1303 — Interception and Disclosure of Wire, Digital, or Oral Interaction. His arrest warrant has been submitted with clerk of court.”
The singer is billed with leaving a listening system at his ex-girlfriend’s campus accommodation at Azalea Hall in order “to keep track of her conversations” when they broke up, just after dating from November 2021 as a result of February 2022.
In accordance to jail booking files, “the target advised that last evening, though looking at a film with her roommate, [they] situated a product, showing to be a telephone charger below the victim’s futon.” Immediately after googling the device, “she figured out it to be a VR-500 Voice Activated Recorder.”
Hardy did not respond to The Post’s requests for remark just before surrendering to authorities this early morning — but he did converse to his 737,000 followers on Facebook last evening, expressing the LSUPD issued “a warrant because of to allegations manufactured against me.”
He did not specify what he was accused of but observed he was “fully cooperative” with cops as additional than 12,000 of his enthusiasts posted reactions and messages of help.
Hardy’s reserving document goes on to point out that in mid-February, “the sufferer … discovered a faux Instagram on the Defendant’s cell phone that he utilised to address up that he was illegally recording her when he was not all-around.”
The docs also factors out that Hardy “had information about the victim and her actions throughout Christmas split that was not recognized to the defendant.” When the feminine student “confronted” Hardy he “admitted that he still left a ‘bug’ in her space later discarded it in his pond,” according to the report.
After the target learned the device continue to in her space — she turned it about to LSUPD, at which time the authorities discovered audio of his “distinguishable voice” and listened to his title currently being repeated by other parties. On the second to very last recording, dated Feb. 2, the “victim is read telling an individual about how she figured out the Defendant was recording her” — but she “doesn’t know if the bug is still in her area.”
When contacted for remark about the rates, Hardy’s reps told The Submit they could not comment on the “pending investigation.”
Nevertheless, his legal professional C. Frank Holthaus confirmed that “Mr. Hardy did get a warrant for his arrest [Thursday] and has been and will continue to be wholly cooperative with the Baton Rouge Law enforcement Office on this subject. Due to the general public nature of Mr. Hardy’s profession, we inquire for privateness at this time.”
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