The controversial deal, which the pop princess considered “offensive”, was struck in 2008 after Britney attacked the paparazzi at a gas station, which resulted in Jamie Spears transferring financial and personal control of the singer.
The decision came after a Los Angeles hearing in which a judge ruled to suspend Jamie Spears’ custody of his daughter, who had long opposed her father’s control.
In accordance with The keeperJudge Brenda Penny ordered the immediate suspension of guardianship, believing that “the current situation is unstable” and that it creates a “toxic environment” for the family.
However, this does not mean that Spears’ custody regime has ended. The judge ordered the official accountant to be interim guardian, although Britney Spears’ lawyer, Matthew Rosengart, requested that the regime be terminated within a period of 30 to 45 years. days for the well-being of the singer.
“This training can and should be closed and stopped immediately – preferably this fall. Britney Spears deserves her father to leave her life as a tutor, ”he argued.
In February, Britney Spears’ life returned to the public sphere with the release of the documentary “Britney Spears Framing”, which tells the story of the American singer, including her moments of greatest popularity and events that led to her future life. controlled by the father.
A few months later, the singer filed a lawsuit to stop tutoring, which had been going on since 2008. The request was made during a hearing in Los Angeles, California, 13 years after Spears’ deemed “offensive” tutoring began.
“This mentoring is doing me more harm than good. I deserve to live, ”said the American singer during a long and emotional phone call.
Following the documentary, movements went viral asking for the artist to be “freed” from her father’s control (“#FreeBritney”) and to force those who criticized and condemned her at the time to apologize.
However, last Friday, The New York Times released a new documentary that further demonstrates what was happening in Spears’ life.
The film, titled “Controlling Britney Spears,” reveals that Jamie Spears installed covert surveillance equipment in Britney’s bedroom to eavesdrop on their conversations.
“It really reminds me of a person in jail,” a former security officer told the documentary.
The singer’s lawyers said this week that the documentary revealed “a shocking and unthinkable invasion of the privacy of her adult daughter,” Jamie Spears, who denied illegal surveillance.
Another Netflix documentary, Britney vs. Spears, released on Tuesday, notes that Britney twice tried to hire her own lawyer at the start of the guard, but was denied this.
In July, the singer finally managed to appoint Rosengart as her lawyer, and in August her father filed a petition to end the custody of the singer. Although he admitted that his daughter “felt she could go about her own business,” he remained her guardian.
The courtroom on Wednesday was full. The singer’s fans arrived a few hours earlier to take their seats. At the courthouse, another group of fans of the artist closed the street, demanding the arrest of Jamie and the “release” of Britney.
In a petition this week, Britney’s lawyers accused Jamie Spears of trying to delay the end of the custody in their own financial interests. The document says their efforts are “a deliberate pretext to avoid the stigma of a work stoppage and its consequences.”
On the 22nd of this month, Britney asked the judge to end her guardianship so that she could marry Sam Asgari by prenuptial agreement. Spears and Asghari met in 2016 when they presented the music video for their single “Slumber Party”.
The singer has two children with her first ex-husband, rapper Kevin Federline, and was briefly married in Las Vegas to childhood friend Jason Alexander. This union was canceled after just 55 hours.
Britney Spears made her official debut in 1999 when she edited the album “… Baby One More Time”, which has sold over one hundred million copies worldwide.