But he claims he is not responsible, and he is placing the blame on others, specifically his daughter's temporary conservator, Jodi Montgomery, and her lawyer, Samuel Ingham III. Jamie was "greatly saddened to hear of his daughter's difficulties and suffering, and he believes that there must be an investigation into those claims," the new documents stated. Britney's request to have her father removed as co-conservator is denied.
Despite the singer's heartbreaking testimony about what she claims is an "oppressive and controlling" conservatorship, a California judge rejected her petition to have Jamie removed altogether, TMZ reported.
However, Ingham's request to have Jamie removed altogether was denied. Bessemer Trust, which was expected to take over as co-conservator of Britney's estate and work with her father, requests to resign from the arrangement. The company said it was requesting to withdraw "due to changed circumstances.
In the filing, the firm stated it was under the impression the singer's conservatorship was voluntary and under her consent, but her minute statement against the conservatorship in court suggested she was opposed to it. Britney's sister Jamie Lynn asks online trolls to stop sending her death threats.
I don't know what to think It's a lot of pain, a lot of worry," she said. I'm good at deflecting," she added "wryly," the publication reports. Lynne reportedly "spoke in a whisper" to reporters and "declined to answer detailed questions about the case. In the same expose, Britney's ex-manager Sam Lufti revealed the singer would borrow people's phones to contact him. Lutfi is currently under a five-year restraining order against Spears that was instated in Britney's manager Larry Rudolph reveals he's stepping down as her manager.
He also noted that he hadn't had contact with Britney in over two-and-a-half years. And as her manager, I believe it is in Britney's best interest for me to resign from her team as my professional services are no longer needed.
Another resignation! Britney's court-appointed attorney Samuel D. Ingham submits a petition to resign from his position. In the filing, Ingham stated his resignation would be "effective" upon the designation of new court-appointed counsel. Jamie Lynn responds to a report she's the only member of Britney's family that isn't receiving money from the pop star. Jamie posted a screenshot of an article headline reading 'Britney Spears' sister Jamie Lynn shares photos of her home life…after it's revealed she is the ONLY family member not on the singer's payroll.
Jamie Lynn confirmed the report by captioning it, "facts…now leave my broke-a-- alone. It's also emerges Britney's court-appointed conservator Jodi Montgomery is receiving death threats. She also made it clear that she wouldn't be receiving as Britney has asked her to stay involved.
Spears has requested that Petitioner retain her position as conservator, Petitioner has no intention of abandoning her by resigning because of these threats," Montgomery's lawyers wrote. Britney Spears ' father Jamie Spears has reportedly spent millions of her money on his own defence against her, according to claims made by Britney's conservator Jodi Montgomery.
Jamie Spears is the conservator of Britney's estate and finances , while Jodi Montgomery is the conservator of Britney's person. The duo have been warring since Britney's minute bombshell testimony on June 23, with Jamie earlier this week blaming Montgomery for the abuse and suffering Britney testified to experiencing throughout her restrictive year conservatorship.
Montgomery filed court documents on Friday, July 9 in response to Jamie's Wednesday July 7 filing, saying he was concerned Montgomery "does not reflect Ms Spears' wishes" as she handles Britney's daily "personal care and medical treatment".
Per People , Montgomery said in the documents: "It is ironic that Mr Spears now wants the conservatorship to 'reflect her wishes,' since it is no secret that Ms Spears has wished her father out of her life for years. Jamie has reportedly not responded to the publication's request for a comment. Veteran Hollywood lawyer Mathew S. Rosengart is in discussions with Britney Spears about representing her in her conservatorship battle. Spears had been represented by lawyer Samuel Ingham III for the entirety of the conservatorship, starting in , when the court put the arrangement in place, with her father, Jamie Spears, as her sole conservator, after she endured a tough time in the public eye in At the time, Spears had no say in selecting Ingham as her lawyer, which is typical for a conservatorship.
During her June 23 testimony, Spears asked the judge to allow her to hire a lawyer of her choosing. At that hearing, Ingham told the judge that he would be willing to resign, if that was his client's wish.
Ingham filed paperwork to resign on July 6, roughly two weeks after Spears' testimony, while a lawyer for Britney's mother, Lynne Spears, filed paperwork , urging the court to "listen to the wishes of her daughter" and allow her to hire her own private lawyer.
Britney's case was back in court with the popstar looking to appoint a lawyer of her own choosing. Judge Brenda Penny granted Britney, who appeared at the hearing via phone, the right to hire her own attorney. From this court hearing, Mathew Rosengart then acted as Britney's attorney in her quest to remove her father from the conservatorship.
For the first time, Britney formally joined the FreeBritney movement in a post of her own on social media. After Britney was granted the right to choose her own non-court-appointed lawyer, her circle started speaking out about the conservatorship. First was her ex-manager Sam Lufti, who said he "failed her" and apologised for his role in her breakdown almost 15 years ago. Britney's mother, Lynne Spears, and her sister, Jamie Lynn Spears, then took to social media to seemingly show their support for the star.
What followed was a seemingly cold war of attrition between the trio, where Britney rebuffed their claims of support , slamming her sister especially. Jamie Lynn, for her part, turned off her Instagram comments as Britney seemingly continued to dig at her on social media. Britney's agent and longtime friend Cade Hudson also spoke out, saying he was threatened to stay silent on the conservatorship. Her former husband Jason Alexander also spoke out, saying that their marriage was terminated by her team against his wishes.
Meanwhile, Britney's former best friend ean Phillip claimed that Jamie enabled her drug addiction. Britney's new lawyer filed a petition to replace Jamie as her conservator with CPA Jason Rubin, and her personal conservator Jodi Montgomery supported the petition. Britney's doctors in court documents also said that they believed removing Jamie from the conservatorship would be in her best interest.
Britney's lawyer then asked for an earlier hearing to determine Jamie's place in Britney's conservatorship, which was denied. Jamie Spears then does the unthinkable — he agrees to step down from Britney's conservatorship , with his lawyer stating that Jamie's "public battle with his daughter" being the reason for Jamie stepping down. Britney then takes to social media with a comment on freedom , as Lynne says in a statement that she is "pleased Jamie has agreed to step down.
Britney is already celebrating, however, as this week, her boyfriend Sam Asghari popped the question — and she said yes! The songstress then posted on social media saying she is "counting for my freedom," before deleting her Instagram account , saying that she is "taking a little break from social media" in order to celebrate her engagement. On September 29, Britney's father Jamie is immediately suspended from her conservatorship. Judge Brenda Penny ruled that Spears' father will no longer serve as the conservator of his daughter's estate, immediately removing him from the conservatorship altogether.
CPA John Zabel will temporarily replace Spears' father in the role of conservator of her estate, meaning he will now control all of her financial decisions, for a short term, until next steps are determined, in regards to terminating the conservatorship, altogether.
Spears' conservator of her person, Jodi Montgomery, who manages her day-to-day wellbeing and medical decisions, still remains on the case. At a Dec. I have and will continue to provide unwavering love and fierce protection against those with self-serving interests and those who seek to harm her or my family. At a Feb. The April 27 hearing also resulted in a moment that many FreeBritney supporters had been eagerly awaiting when Ingham announced that Britney had requested to be allowed to speak at a hearing in the near future.
Britney last spoke in court at a sealed hearing that took place on May 10, None of what she said was made public. On June 23, Britney addressed an open court for the first time. I am traumatized…. I cry every day. The hearing brought on an unprecedented outpouring of support for Britney. But legally speaking, the conservatorship has not yet changed. Rosengart —a former federal prosecutor who has represented a number of A-list celebrities, including Sean Penn, Steven Spielberg and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, in recent years—to manage her case going forward.
Britney also requested that the court charge Jamie with conservatorship abuse. In the weeks since the most recent hearing, there have been a number of rapid-fire developments.
Things you buy through our links may earn New York a commission. In the meantime, certain key players have abdicated their roles. Jamie Spears assumed the role of financial and personal conservator when he enacted the guardianship in Montgomery characterized this as an extreme misrepresentation of her words.
All of which is to say, his request to end the conservatorship altogether — and without making Britney undergo another psychiatric evaluation — came as a huge surprise. The singer's ex-husband and the father of her two children, Kevin Federline, filed a police report that led to a child-abuse investigation. Charges weren't filed, but the children were granted a restraining order against Jamie Spears, according to People.
The judge allowed Jamie Spears to step down from his conservator role over his daughter's personal life but not her financial life. Jodi Montgomery, Britney Spears' "care manager," was appointed as temporary conservator of Britney's personal life at Jamie's request, according to People. Jamie Spears alleged that Elia falsely suggested that Jamie and his team were using social media to hurt his daughter's image and making it seem that Britney was unstable and needed a conservatorship, Cori Robinson reported for Above The Law.
Jamie Spears said the suggestions sparked several death threats against those involved in the conservatorship, Above The Law reported. In December, the court ordered Elia to stop the allegations against the conservatorship, particularly those suggesting the conservatorship is harming Britney Spears.
Lynne Spears, who is divorced from Jamie, filed a legal motion in to be involved in the conservatorship process — she wanted to stay informed and have a say in her daughter's medical issues, Melas reported , citing court filings.
She was present at Britney's court hearings that year, TMZ reported. Lynne Spears was also spotted "liking" comments on Instagram about the FreeBritney movement, Yahr wrote. And when fans noticed that positive comments were being deleted from Britney Spears' social-media accounts, Lynne responded to an Instagram post and said she also noticed the comments had disappeared, Guy reported. Montgomery will also remain temporary conservator until that date, the International Business Times' Sarah Guy reported.
According to The Blast , which obtained new legal documents, the judge extended the conservatorship while those involved "figure out what is best" for Spears. They decided to extend the conservatorship again until at least August 22, Entertainment Tonight's Liz Calvario reported.
According to court documents obtained by ET, a hearing on the matter never took place due to the coronavirus pandemic. The news comes around the same time Spears posted a video to her Instagram revealing that she accidentally burned down her home gym after leaving candles lit.
Gallery said Spears wrote the letter at the beginning of her conservatorship, according to US Weekly. Gallery claims Spears gave him the letter at the time, which was "destroyed" by her conservators, but that he made a copy of it.
Referring to the incident that resulted in her hospitalization, she allegedly wrote, "No one knows the truth. The Daily Mail published images of the handwritten letter in Spears wants Montgomery, the temporary conservator who took over in September , to take over as conservator permanently, TMZ reported , citing court documents filed by Spears' attorney.
Her current attorney, Samuel D. Ingham III, stated in the court filings that Spears wants a "qualified corporate fiduciary " managing the business affairs of her estate. According to US Weekly , which reviewed the court filings, the pop star "is strongly opposed to having [Jamie] return as the conservator of her person" and "strongly prefers" that Montgomery "continue in that role as [she] has done for nearly a year.
But after a hearing on August 19, Judge Brenda Penny of the Los Angeles County Superior Court in California said she would extend the current version of the conservatorship, not granting any of the changes Spears' lawyer requested in the filings, through February 1, The trust was made for Spears' children.
Jamie Lynn is also in charge of distributing these assets to Spears' children in the event of her death, the Los Angeles Times reported.
According to the LA Times, Jamie Lynn is requesting that the court move the assets into Fidelity Brokerage Services accounts with her as the custodian. A judge would need to approve moving them back out. Spears' attorney, Samuel D. Ingham III, filed court documents on September 2, stating that she wants her future court hearings about conservatorship open to the public, reported Natalie Morin for Refinery Ingham also said that the FreeBritney movement is "far from being a conspiracy theory" and that the social media scrutiny over Jamie's attempts to keep court hearings private is "reasonable.
Ingham alleged that the petition was in retaliation to Spears' refusal to perform, which "will require [Jamie Spears] to undertake drastic changes to her budget.
He argued that Wallet was "uniquely unsuitable" for the role, reported New Musical Express. Wallet then told The Daily Mail that "people lurking in the shadows" are behind the FreeBritney movement. He also told the publication that "Britney is in a conservatorship for good reason but a lot of the Free Britney people have no experience with the law," adding that it's possible she might be under the conservatorship for the rest of her life.
Ingham wrote in the court filing that "Britney and her estate will suffer loss and injury if James is not suspended immediately," asking that he be removed as soon as third-party financial company Bessemer Trust was appointed as co-conservator. Spears learned through a letter from her father's lawyer that her longtime business manager, Lou Taylor, had resigned, reported Billboard. Her father had allegedly hired a new business manager, Michael Kane, without Spears' knowing.
Ingham said Spears wasn't informed about Kane's salary or employment terms, per Billboard. He described the letter as a "blatant attempt by James to try to retain full functional control of her assets, books and records in the face of Britney's objections While Judge Penny appointed Bessemer Trust as a co-conservator after Spears was granted rights to expand her legal team the previous month, she didn't grant the request removal of Jamie Spears.
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