The endless legal battle between Britney Spears and the father Jamie is enriched with a new chapter: the two will not go to trial on the payment of the legal expenses that the man has incurred in the multi-year battle to keep his daughter under legal guardianship. According to the gossip site Tmzthe singer would not get even a penny, while it would now be up to her to pay the costs of his lawyers, equal, according to some sources, to two million dollars.
The agreement, signed by the parties’ lawyers at the Los Angeles Superior Court and whose economic terms have not actually been officially disclosed, comes more than two years after Britney’s release by the iron legal control that since 2008, after a couple of highly publicized episodes of mental breakdown, Jamie had exercised on every aspect of the singer’s life. Again according to TMZ, which first broke the news of the agreement, the singer would be furious: her lawyer Mathew Rosengart he had assured her that he had victory in his pocket, while now she would have to open her wallet.
Britney’s freedom
A reconciliation on the emotional front therefore seems far away. “Jamie loves Britney very much and he would like nothing more than to be a family with her again,” her father’s lawyer said. Alex Weingarten. Officially, however, another chapter in Britney’s life is finally closed. “Although her legal guardianship was revoked in November 2021, Britney’s desire for freedom is now truly complete,” Rosengart said: “Freedom also includes no longer having to deal with the courts because of this matter.” .
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Jamie Spears had asked the judiciary to make Britney pay the legal costs he incurred in the litigation. The pop star had objected, claiming that her father had paid himself more than six million dollars during the 13 years of legal custody, had improperly placed his daughter under surveillance and made various financial messes.
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“The parties have resolved the outstanding issues,” Weingarten said, while Jamie said he was “happy that it’s all over now,” although he was “sorry about the irresponsible accusations made against him in public.”
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A new trial was avoided
The plea agreement therefore closes without too much fanfare a story that had been under the media spotlight for years in which accusations and vitriol had been exchanged between father and daughter with Britney at a certain point having declared in court that she would have liked to see Jamie in prison. A new trial, which was supposed to begin in May, was at this point averted.
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Since the end of her legal guardianship, Britney Spears has married and divorced. She has published a memoir entitled The woman in me which sold over two million copies but, with the exception of a duet with Elton John (Hold me closer) and another with Will.i.am (Mind your business), never returned to singing.
