Posts Tagged ‘Conservatorship’
Britney Donates Dress To Haitian Relief
Friday, January 22nd, 2010
Britney Spears was back in court today, amid rumors that this would be the day she won her release from the conservatorship that has run her life for the last two years. Alas, the only news to come from today’s hearing was that the singer has received permission to donate the dress she wore to the 2008 MTV Awards to be auctioned off to benefit the relief efforts in Haiti.
According to TMZ, Jamie Spears remains in the driver’s seat when it comes to his daughter’s legal and financial affairs. Britney is also allowed to “dispose” of other items she no longer needs. Jeez, does she need the court’s OK to have a garage sale or take out the trash?
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Pap Sues Britney For Running Over Foot
Friday, May 29th, 2009
The Britney Spears legal circus just keeps rolling on. Now a two-year-old incident has come back to haunt her.
The AP reports a paparazzi photographer who has worked for TMZ filed a civil lawsuit in Los Angeles today. Ricardo Mendoza alleges the singer committed assault and battery when she ran over his foot in a Beverly Hills parking garage in October 2007. A video of the incident can be viewed here.
Britney was understandably upset at the time, because she had just found out she lost custody of her two sons to ex-husband Kevin Federline, so she probably should have let someone else drive.
But isn’t this just the sort of thing Big Daddy Spears and his mighty Conservatorship are paid to take care of? Why haven’t they already thrown some of Brit’s money at this guy to make it all go away? Does Britney really need to have the mistakes she made during her darkest days dragged out again?
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Adnan Denies Charges
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
Britney Spears’ former boyfriend Adnan Ghalib has finally spoken out about the legal complaint that has him facing three felony charges.
According to RadarOnline, Ghalib filed papers last night in an L.A. court in which he denied “each and every allegation” that had been made against him by process server Ram Moskowitz. The court papers are available here. In February, Moskowitz was attempting to serve the former paparazzo with a restraining order seeking to keep him away from Britney Spears and her family members, when the process server alleges that he was hit by Ghalib’s car.
While it certainly seems like a positive step for Ghalib to answer the complaint against him, why did he take so long? Jamie Spears and his conservatorship cronies have been smearing Adnan’s name for months now—why hasn’t he spoken out before? It’s not just his good name that’s at stake here—it’s his freedom.
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Eardley Hits Back At Camp Spears
Thursday, May 14th, 2009
While Britney Spears has been busy touring, working her cute little butt off to make money, her daddy Jamie Spears has been busy spending it on lawyers, fighting anyone who threatens his stranglehold over his daughter’s life. Those pesky legal bills will get even higher now, since one of his targets is fighting back.
RadarOnline reports attorney Jon Eardley has filed papers in an L.A. court appealing the three-year restraining order served against him, and also objecting to being forced to pay the legal costs of obtaining the order. Eardley, Brit’s former manager Sam Lutfi, and her ex BF Adnan Ghalib were all slapped with three-year restraining orders keeping them away from the singer and her family. The three were also ordered to pay court costs the Spears team incurred obtaining the orders.
Eardley objects to being lumped together with Brit’s former manager Sam Lutfi, stating, “The court will recall that the bulk of the witnesses were called with respect to Lutfi. The investigation substantially focused on Mr. Lutfi.”
A hearing is scheduled for May 29. Will Eardley have the legal savvy to stand up to the Spears conservatorship?
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Papa Spears Tells Sam To Pay Up
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
Former Britney Spears manager Sam Lutfi has already been handed a three-year restraining order—now he may get stuck with the bill for it.
According to People, the legal team representing Spears’ conservatorship wants shady Sam to pay $123,142 for their fees in obtaining the restraining order. The legal eagles also are looking for $129,922 from attorney Jon Eardley and $72,292 from Britney’s ex-boyfriend Adnan Ghalib, both of whom are also under restraining orders.
It looks like challenging Papa Spears’ authority gets more expensive all the time.
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