Britney Spears can hire own lawyer in longstanding conservatorship case Share Updated: 7:14 PM CDT Jul 14, 2021 By ANDREW DALTON, AP Entertainment Writer
Britney Spears can hire own lawyer in longstanding conservatorship case Share Updated: 7:14 PM CDT Jul 14, 2021
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Show Transcript Hey, hello. Conservatorship has got to go. Please take care of yourself confidence. We re gonna be putting together on our website the ability for you to contact your legislators in Congress and the Senate. A letter to say this is important to me, we use Britney because of her celebrity, because it puts a face and a voice on this. Because there are thousands, we estimate, 10,000 a year victims who never get talked about in the news. No one ever hears about it. Great now.
Tearful Britney Spears begs court to oust father as conservator
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.
Britney Spears breaks down at conservatorship case hearing, allowed to hire attorney of choice
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Spears said that I thought they were trying to kill me in the early years of the conservatorship as she was being overworked and constantly examined.
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LOS ANGELES: A judge allowed Britney Spears to hire an attorney of her choosing at a hearing Wednesday in which she broke down in tears after describing the cruelty of her conservatorship. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Brenda Penny approved Spears hiring former federal prosecutor Mathew Rosengart, who called on Spears s father to immediately resign as her conservator.
By ANDREW DALTON
AP Entertainment Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) â A judge allowed Britney Spears to hire an attorney of her choosing at a hearing Wednesday in which she broke down in tears after describing the âcruelty of her conservatorship.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Brenda Penny approved Spears hiring former federal prosecutor Mathew Rosengart, who called on Spears father to immediately resign as her conservator.
âThe question remains, why is he involved,â Rosengart said outside the courthouse.
Britney Spears, taking part in the hearing by phone, told the judge she approved of Rosengart after several conversations with him. She then asked to address the court, but asked that the courtroom be cleared.
By City News Service
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LOS ANGELES (CNS) - 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 today 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, still subject to a formal order, comes following the resignation of Spears longtime court-appointed counsel, Samuel D. Ingham III. Ingham submitted court papers after last month s court hearing in which the singer blasted her family and virtually everyone involved in the conservatorship, saying she has been subjected to conditions akin to slavery and sex-trafficking.