Britney Spears’ lawyer slams dad Jamie after new allegations

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Britney Spears’ lawyer has taken Jamie Spears to job within the wake of recent allegations of intrusive and probably unlawful surveillance.

Lawyer Mathew Rosengart introduced down the hammer in an L.A. County Superior Court docket submitting Monday after the current launch of the FX/Hulu documentary “Controlling Britney Spears” and a report by the New York Times printed in live performance with the movie.

“Mr. Spears was, after all, by no means match to serve, for all the many compelling causes already contained within the report, starting from his lack of economic acumen, to his chapter, to his reported alcoholism, to the trauma he precipitated his daughter since childhood, to the Home Violence Restraining Order just lately issued in opposition to him,” Rosengart wrote in a 3rd complement to a petition searching for elimination of Jamie Spears as conservator of his daughter’s property.

“However now, the chickens have actually come house to roost,” he continued. The New York Instances “reported that Mr. Spears engaged in horrifying and unconscionable invasions of his grownup daughter’s privateness. Particularly, the Instances reported that he and others ‘ran an intense surveillance equipment that monitored [Ms. Spears’] communications’ and likewise evidently captured attorney-client communications together with her prior lawyer … a sacrosanct a part of the authorized system.”

Jamie Spears’ legal professional, Vivian Thoreen, didn’t reply instantly to a Los Angeles Instances request for remark.

“Controlling Britney Spears” sourced its info from Alex Vlasov, a former worker at Black Field Safety; Felicia Culotta, the singer’s good friend and assistant; and Tish Yates, who was head of wardrobe for a number of of Spears’ excursions throughout the conservatorship and mentioned she had a detailed relationship together with her.

Among the many allegations:

  • Britney Spears’ safety crew functioned extra like jail guards
  • Safety-team members had been allegedly given prepackaged envelopes of medicine that they then compelled Spears to take.
  • All of Britney’s actions had been documented in group texts that included Edan Yemini, the top of Black Field Safety; Robin Greenhill of Tri Star Sports activities and Leisure Group, which dealt with the singer’s enterprise affairs; and Jamie Spears.
  • All of Spears’ telephone exercise was allegedly monitored utilizing a mirrored iPad.
  • An audio recording machine was positioned in Spears’ bed room and captured a whole bunch of hours of personal interactions.
  • Spears’ spending was so tightly regulated that she needed to sneak sushi and a pair of Skechers.
  • Jamie Spears allegedly tried to create a rift between Spears and Culotta.
  • Black Field allegedly investigated the #FreeBritney motion.

Vlasov, 30, was an govt assistant and operations and cybersecurity supervisor for Black Field, which was employed by Jamie Spears to look out for his daughter. In his 9 years on the agency, Vlasov informed the New York Instances, he was “the one particular person at Black Field that knew every part, actually,” as a result of his place near the corporate’s founder.

His recollection of occasions was backed up by others concerned with the conservatorship who wished to remain nameless, in response to the New York Instances. Vlasov supplied emails, textual content messages and audio recordings to assist his allegations.

Jamie Spears mentioned in a submitting on Aug. 12 that he was planning to step down because the conservator of his daughter’s funds, regardless of claiming there was no authorized motive for his elimination, however provided no timetable. He mentioned he wanted to hold round to deal with a number of accounting points and accused Rosengart of shifting on Britney’s behalf “precipitously, with out enough investigation, and based mostly on unsubstantiated allegations and improper opinions.”

He additionally questioned whether or not altering conservators at this level could be within the singer’s greatest pursuits. Then, on Sept. 7, reversing course, he filed a petition to finish the 13-year conservatorship.

“As Mr. Spears has mentioned many times, all he needs is what’s greatest for his daughter,” that doc mentioned. “If Ms. Spears needs to terminate the conservatorship and believes that she will deal with her personal life, Mr. Spears believes that she ought to get that probability.”

Jamie Spears served as conservator of Britney Spears’ particular person and her property till he was changed as conservator of her particular person in 2019.

Rosengart shot again at Jamie Spears in Monday’s submitting, which was obtained by the Los Angeles Instances.

“Mr. Spears has crossed unfathomable strains. Whereas they aren’t proof, the allegations warrant severe investigation,” he wrote, noting that California is a two-party consent state with regard to recording personal communications. He mocked Jamie Spears’ competition that there was no authorized motive to take away him as conservator as “legally and factually preposterous.”

“Mr. Spears’s newest efforts at delay have to be rejected; he have to be suspended on September twenty ninth; adopted by the immediate termination of the conservatorship,” the submitting mentioned.

The courtroom will maintain its subsequent listening to on the conservatorship Wednesday in downtown Los Angeles.

Instances workers author Meredith Blake contributed to this report.

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