Los Angeles Judge Brenda Penny has not made a decision regardingBritney Spears’father Jamie’s request for her tocontinue paying his legal feesafter the termination of her conservatorship.
Weingarten accused Rosengart of planting the story with theTimes, calling Britney’s accusations “nonsense.”
“Virtually everything that is alleged is … fake or taken out of context,” said Weingarten, referring to Britney’s claims that Jamie bugged her bedroom, tapped her phone and tried to obtain private therapy reports. Weingarten added that there is “sealed” information about Britney’s case that would “demonstrate that there is no evidence to these allegations.”
Rosengart hit back, telling the court that he feels “compelled to respond to these false statements [and] lies.”
“I’m not deciding what’s right and what’s wrong today,” said Penny about the allegations. No decision was made about legal fees for Jamie, Britney’s mother Lynne or the pop star’s former lawyers on Wednesday, but Penny did approve apayment for Spears' former conservatorJodi Montgomery’s legal fees.
Britney Spears and Jamie Spears.Steve Granitz/WireImage; Shutterstock
Weingarten also asked the judge to file a motion to unseal Britney’s health records next month, saying that the “public has the right to know” more context.
Rosengart, however, asked Judge Penny to hold off on the motion until April 15 so he has time to prepare a response.
The next hearing, set for July 27, is expected to further address the legal fees and Britney’s claims against Jamie.
Jamie, 69, first filed court documents demanding that the star’s estate make payments to his legal team for “ongoing fiduciary duties relating to the winding up of the Conservatorship of the Person and Estate” in December, just over a month after Penny decided to end the13-year-long conservatorship.
“Prompt payment on account of Jamie’s attorneys' fees is necessary to ensure the Conservatorship can be wound up quickly and efficiently to allow Britney to take control of her life as she and Jamie desire,” the documents stated.
In response, Britney, 40,alleged in her Friday court documentsthat Jamie’s financial misconduct during his tenure as her conservator put him in violation of California’s standards of conduct.
While still indebted to the company, Jamie allegedly hired Tri Star to be Britney’s manager, a role that Rosengart said awarded the firm “multi-million dollar commissions and fees” from Britney’s earnings during the conservatorship.
“Although Mr. Spears contended that his daughter needed the Conservatorship because she was incapable of caring for herself or her affairs, Mr. Spears was intent on ensuring that she continued to generate significant earnings, a sizeable portion of which he distributed to himself and those within his inner circle,” Rosengart later added.
A lawyer for Taylor did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Additionally, Ebadi alleged that Jamie would ask Black Box to send him “specific items from Ms. Spears’s iCloud, such as therapy notes or text message,” despite being “aware that he was expressly prohibited” from doing so without Britney’s permission.
Along with surveilling Britney, Ebadi said that Vlasov claimed that the company had obtained private phone records from Britney’s mother, Lynne, and others, including Britney’s masseuse, to determine if they were speaking to the media.
According to Ebadi, Vlasov also said that Black Box would obtain GPS “ping data” to obtain the locations of certain people, including “former romantic interests” of Britney’s, for surveillance.
Britney’s conservatorship was terminated on Nov. 12, five months after the singer made clear during a court hearing that she wanted it to end.
Rosengart, who has represented Britney since July,first filed court documentsto move forward in asking Penny to end Britney’s conservatorship in September, weeks after Jamie, who was then her estate conservator,did the same.
After Jamie — who had stepped down as Britney’s personal conservator in 2019 — was officially suspended from his role as estate conservator on Sept. 29,Britney thanked Rosengart on Instagram, writing: “Thankfully I found an amazing attorney Mathew Rosengart who has helped change my life!!!!”
Weeks later, Rosengartfiled additional court documentsaccusing Jamie of having ulterior motives after he unexpectedly reversed his stance in September on the necessity of Britney’s conservatorship.
For his part, Jamie has defended his role as the conservator of Britney’s estate and hasinsisted that he only ever had his daughter’s best interest at heart.
source: people.com
