
Two words: TOUCH FOOTBALL
I’m kind of reminded of Bill Murray in Groundhog Day. Of course, in this case; it’s all of us and the still more Britney news. It’s seems as if even locked up in the looney bin (see below) she still manages to get into the news. Amazing.
Well, the news starts on legal front with Jamie Spears (her dad, not the teenage pregnant slut) taking over her finances and basically running the Spears media “empire”. That’s not saying so much about Jamie since he pretty much gets it by default. An added bonus is he gets to decide who sees Britney while she enjoys her stay in “Casa De Locos”. Of course, one of the first ‘casualties’ was Sam Lutfi…
Spears’ estranged parents and Lutfi were reported to have joined forces to have the singer admitted to Los Angeles’ UCLA Medical Center on Thursday morning, where she was placed on 72-hour psychiatric hold. But Lutfi is now claiming Britney’s parents are more concerned with money and their image than their daughter’s wellbeing, branding them “incapable of telling the truth and incapable of sympathising”.
(H)e insists he has “a moral obligation” to protect the 26-year-old like he would with any of his three sisters. He also maintains he has never been paid by Spears and “never accepted money from the media” for tip offs about the star’s whereabouts. (source)
Riiiiiiiiiight.
Then Lufti decided to take this to the next level. Well, to Ryan Seacrest’s radio show anyway….
Lutfi … phoned Los Angeles radio host Ryan Seacrest on Thursday night to gush about his “sister”, Britney, and the mental health problems that prompted a headline-grabbing intervention early on Thursday morning. Allowing Seacrest to repeat his comments during his breakfast show on Friday, a tearful Lutfi also took aim at the pop star’s family, insisting they were “incapable of telling the truth and incapable of sympathising” and “They came into the house with an agenda and are trying to look like the heroes after all the dirty work has been done. Their main worry is being financially cut off.”
Britney’s mum fired back by personally calling Seacrest to “set the record straight”. Off-air, she told the DJ not to believe everything written and said about her in the media, insisting her only concern is for her daughter’s well-being. Spears is currently on a 72-hour emergency hold at UCLA Medical Center, where she is undergoing psychiatric tests. (source)
Ryan Seacrest a “DJ” … hmm, I doubt it. Anyway, about those 72 hours? Yeah, well…
Britney Spears will likely spend the next two weeks in a psychiatric centre’s padded cell, it has been claimed. According to reports the disturbed singer has been declared a danger to herself or others by staff at the UCLA Medical Centre. The 26-year-old had initially been set to stay at the Los Angeles centre for 72 hours after being sectioned last week. But a hospital source told People magazine: “Britney Spears’ hospitalisation has been extended to an additional 14-day hold.”
Meanwhile it has been claimed that the singer’s parents have reported a theft of many of their daughter’s possessions in the hours after she was sectioned. Press reports claim Lynne and Jamie Spears blame Britney’s manager Sam Lufti for the thefts.
But he retorted: “First they take her kids, then her home and money. Britney does not have anything left.” (source)
Now theft? Jeez, this is sounding like an episode of Matlock. A very bad episode, but nevertheless.
So where are Britney’s lawyers in all this, you asked? Well, even if you didn’t, they’re not thrilled that their piggybank client doesn’t have control of the purse strings, SO…
Lawyers for troubled singer BRITNEY SPEARS are heading to court to fight an order which has given her father control of her estate, according to U.S. reports. The Toxic star is currently being held at a Los Angeles hospital for psychiatric treatment and on Friday a judge granted her father Jamie, and his lawyer Andrew Wallet, temporary conservatorship - meaning they are in complete charge of Spears’ medical, financial and legal affairs. Jamie even has the right to restrict people visiting the 26-year-old.
But a further court hearing is scheduled for Monday and according reports from People.com and TMZ.com, Spears’ attorneys are expected to object to the amount of control which has been handed to her father. Meanwhile, a planned hearing in the singer’s ongoing custody battle for her two sons is expected to go ahead without her on Monday. (source)
Hmm, I’m suddenly struck by the phrase “lawyer orgy”.
Oh, and I haven’t even mentioned the “Streisand connection”. Oh yeah, you heard right.
BRITNEY SPEARS’ fortune came to the fore in court on Monday as part of her ongoing legal battles for custody of her kids and control of her finances. With the pop star committed to a psychiatric hospital, her new attorney Adam Streisand represented her in court and was asked to reveal details of the singer’s worth. This comes after her father Jamie was given control of his troubled daughter’s financial and legal affairs in an emergency hearing on Friday.
Streisand, who is Barbra Streisand’s second cousin, asked the court commissioner to reconsider Jamie Spears’ new role as conservator of his client’s. According to TMZ.com, Streisand asked for Spears’ business manager, Howard Grossman, to be named conservator. In his argument, the attorney told the court his client’s estate is worth $40 million, and he revealed she is currently in the middle of a $17 million tax audit. Streisand lost his bid to overturn the conservatorship ruling after the judge declined to change Friday’s order.
The matter will be revisited at a hearing on 14 February. Meanwhile, the court also imposed a ban on Spears engaging in any form of communication with her self-proclaimed manager, Sam Lutfi.
Monday was a big day in court for Spears - even though she wasn’t physically there. Another lawyer, Anne Kiley, was in court for the latest hearing into Spears’ child custody battle with ex-husband Kevin Federline and his attorney Mark Vincent Kaplan. That hearing was quickly rescheduled to 19 February. Outside the court, a frustrated Kaplan, Federline’s lawyer, said, “It’s a very fluid landscape that’s changing day by day.” (source)
Well that’s the understatement of the millenium so far. Two new lawyers? A tax audit? Streisand?? I thought soap operas were hard to follow. All that’s missing is for the ‘real’ Britney to come out of the woods and tell the world that the ‘fake’ Britney is actually a woman she paid to be her double but then the double had the real Britney kidnapped but then couldn’t handle the strain of being in the media spotlight.
Oh laugh, but right now; it would not surprise me one bit.