Britney Spears was due in court yesterday for a progress report relating to the conservatorship case, in place since 2008 after she suffered a breakdown, which gives her father Jamie along with attorney Andrew Wallet control of her legal and business affairs. Spears was scheduled to meet with Commissioner Reva Goetz, but the hearing was postponed to give both parties more time to prepare, according to TMZ.
Britney hasn’t been associated with too much public drama or antics lately, so Jamie reportedly feels there is no need to continue the conservatorship which could end by the middle of this year, though no firm date has been scheduled. Spears shocked the world with her antics – shaving her head, attacking a car with an umbrella, and entering a bitter custody battle over her two kids with ex-husband Kevin Federline. In early 2008, the star entered a psychiatric ward in Los Angeles for two days after she refused to return her sons to their father, sparking the conservatorship.
One thing does have the Spears family a little nervous, however. Spears’s ex-manager Sam Lutfi has reportedly claimed that she is still in regular contact with him, despite a three year restraining order against Lutfi in 2009.
Per Digital Spy:
Lutfi reportedly said: “Britney reached out to me a few weeks ago. She makes contact with me quite frequently. She pleads with me to help her and end the control her dad has over her life. She keeps asking me, ‘When is this going to end?’. If she’s out in public, she will use somebody’s phone – sometimes the bodyguard’s – to call me. She will go to the bathroom and lock herself in and make a call. She is miserable right now. This is an ongoing crazy drama. She is not insane. She is lost. You have to understand, her parents have been in control of her life since she was a teenager. All she wants to do is free herself, to get away from [manager] Larry [Rudolph], her mom and her dad.”
And despite having a front row seat to Britney’s well publicized breakdown, Lutfi – who acted as her manager – says there is nothing wrong with her and insists she was just expressing herself, hoping she’ll get the chance to do it again soon. He went as far as saying that the head-shaving incident was “cool”, though he “doesn’t know what she was thinking at the time.”
Why is this human leech resurfacing? This was the man found responsible for doping Britney out of her mind. Britney probably would have been on the stroll by now looking for Johns if she had remained a little bit longer with Lutfi. There’s a reason why ‘Sam Lutfi’ is an anagram for ‘Must Fail.’
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