Their goal is make me feel like I m crazy, tearful Britney Spears tells court
By Lisa Richwine
Reuters
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Singer Britney Spears on Wednesday won the right to choose her own lawyer to help her end a 13-year-long conservatorship and tearfully pleaded for the court to oust her father immediately from the role of controlling her business affairs.
Her father, Jamie Spears, has been a major figure in the conservatorship since he set it up in 2008 when his daughter had a mental health breakdown. He is currently the sole person in charge of her $60 million estate. You re allowing my dad to ruin my life, Spears told the Los Angeles judge by phone. I have to get rid of my dad and charge him with conservatorship abuse, she added.
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Protesters at a #FreeBritney Rally outside the Los Angeles Courthouse today. A judge has cleared the pop star to choose her own lawyer.
Updated July 14, 2021 at 8:02 PM ET
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has cleared Britney Spears to hire her own lawyer in the long drawn-out battle over her conservatorship. And the pop star has chosen Mathew S. Rosengart, a prominent Hollywood lawyer and former federal prosecutor, to take up her case.
This was the outcome of a hearing on Wednesday in a Los Angeles courtroom, where the court had a long list of odds and ends to tie up after Spears blistering public testimony in June, in which she described her life under the conservatorship.
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File Photo: HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - JULY 22: Britney Spears attends Sony Pictures Once Upon A Time.In Hollywood Los Angeles Premiere on July 22, 2019 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CA Three weeks after Britney Spears impassioned court appearance demanding an end to the conservatorship that has governed her life for 13 years, a Los Angeles judge Wednesday approved the singer s request to hire her own attorney rather than have one appointed for her.
The decision by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Brenda Penny comes following the resignation of Spears longtime court-appointed counsel, Samuel D. Ingham III. Ingham submitted court papers following last month s court hearing in which the singer blasted her family and virtually everyone involved in the conspiracy, saying she has been subjected to conditions akin to slavery and sex-trafficking.
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FILE - Britney Spears arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood on July 22, 2019. When Spears speaks to a judge at her own request on Wednesday, June. 23, 2021, she ll do it 13 years into a court-enforced conservatorship that has exercised vast control of her life and money by her father. Spears has said the conservatorship saved her from collapse and exploitation. But she has sought more control over how it operates, and says she wants her father out. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)
LOS ANGELES (AP) – A new attorney has been appointed to represent Britney Spears in her conservatorship after a hearing in which the singer tearfully spoke about the case’s impact on her life.
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Britney Spears supporters react to the news that Spears was granted permission by a judge to hire a lawyer of her choice in her conservatorship battle at the Stanley Mosk Courthouse in Los Angeles.
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Britney Spears arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ on July 22, 2019.
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Maggie Howell, supporter of pop star Britney Spears protests at the Lincoln Memorial, during the ‘Free Britney’ rally, Wednesday, July 14, 2021, in Washington.
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LOS ANGELES A new attorney has been appointed to represent Britney Spears in her conservatorship after a hearing in which the singer tearfully spoke about the case’s impact on her life.