Justin Timberlake Apologizes for Mocking Homeless People at His $6.5 Million Italian Wedding

On Wednesday, we showed you parts of a video shown to guests at Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel's fabulous wedding, made by one of Timberlake's friends, featuring a bunch of L.A. street people wishing the newlyweds well. Because what's funnier than watching desperately poor people on TV when you're surrounded by extravagant luxury and millionaires? Today, Timberlake apologized.

The video was made by Timberlake's longtime pal Justin Huchel, who approached a variety of vagrants, transexuals, and passersby on the streets of Los Angeles and asked them to wish Timberlake and Biel well as if they were old friends. Hilarity ensues in the form of poor people—many of them intoxicated or mentally ill—entertaining the preposterous notion that Timberlake cares about what they think. (We've taken the video down, but you can read a description of the post—and read the threatening letter Huchel's lawyer sent us—here.)

Huchel's lawyer admitted that Huchel shot the video "to be exhibited privately at Justin Timberlake's wedding" and insisted that the video was "made without Mr. Timberlake's knowledge." Still, Timberlake saw fit to apologize for the mess today on his web site. Huchel is clearly a "knucklehead" for making it, Timberlake wrote, but it was all really a misunderstanding: "I think it was made as a joke on me not having that many friends attending my own wedding (which IS kind of funny if you think about it)." Hahahahaha. That really is funny, now that I think about it. Timberlake could only fly 100 or so people—including Andy Samberg, Jimmy Fallon, and Timbaland—on private jets to the exclusive Italian resort where he got married, so here are some poor people. Seriously, think about it.

Timberlake's site seems to be going down intermittently, so here's the full statement:

To my family, friends, and fans:













