Britney Spears has surprisingly settled her years-long legal battle with her father Jamie Spears and will end up paying his more than $2 million legal bills without getting anything in the process.
The 41-year-old pop star, who recently showed off her statuesque physique, has quietly resolved her legal battle with her 71-year-old father, according to TMZ Friday and the singer is said to be furious over the matter.
According to the site, Jamie won’t pay a cent and his daughter, the Toxic hitmaker, will foot his legal bills in what is said to be a shocking turn of events.
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Britney Spears has surprisingly settled her years-long legal battle with her father Jamie Spears and will end up paying his more than $2 million legal bills without getting anything in the process, according to a report from TMZ on Friday.
TMZ insiders have claimed that Britney is said to be furious about the silent agreement.
The publication reports that its sources had said that his lawyer, Matthew Rosengart, had assured him that he had a strong case.
However, she will now have to pay her father Jamie’s legal bills, which are said to amount to more than $2 million.
TMZ also reports that Britney has paid her lawyer Rosengart more than $4 million and is in an even deeper financial hole over the case after the settlement.
In February, it seemed like their long-term legal battle was still underway after her conservatorship still continues years after the deal ended in 2021, with Jamie claiming at the time that it was Britney’s doing in new documents. .
Jamie wrote in legal documents obtained Wednesday, February 7, by The explosion that his daughter has been using delaying tactics to prolong the case.
He urged the judge overseeing the case not to grant a stay of the case, which could result in an extension that would postpone the start of the trial until a later date.
Britney, who claimed she was forced to give up her “freedom” to see her children while under conservatorship, is about to begin mediation sessions with her father later this month, and he suggests he is trying to delay the process until later. mediation, although she says it will likely be unsuccessful.
In February, Jamie urged a judge overseeing her daughter Britney’s conservatorship case, which had already ended, not to delay the proceedings, according to new documents obtained Wednesday, February 7, by The Blast; seen in 2008
He accused Britney, 41, of requesting a suspension of mediation scheduled for late February, which he said is unlikely to result in an agreement.
‘There is no reason to suspend any part of the case (as the Court recognized at the January 5, 2024 hearing) and there is certainly no basis to suspend the briefing or any other activity that in any way relates to the sentencing motion Jamie’s pending summary. for hearing on April 12, 2024,’ Spears’ legal team wrote in her latest filing.
He indicated that he and Britney were unlikely to resolve their issues after going more than two years without reaching an agreement.
‘The parties have had months (indeed, years) to discuss an agreement. They have not been satisfied. “Imposing a stay simply because there is a February 23, 2024 meditation seems certain to result in a continuation of the trial if the parties do not reach an agreement in mediation,” he continued.
The petition also emphasizes that Britney’s former guardian filed his Petition for Order Allowing and Approving Payment of Compensation to the Guardian and Conservator Attorneys and Reimbursement of Costs almost three years ago, in March 2021.
The petition was a request for Britney to pay her legal fees for the conservatorship battle, but so far the Toxic singer and her attorney Mathew Rosengart have resisted paying Jamie’s expenses.
Their petition is expected to be resolved when the trial begins in June of this year.
Spears’ team continued in the filing by accusing Britney of “constantly attempting to delay” the start of the trial.
They seemed to suggest that his legal team was filing frivolous motions, only to fail to follow through on them when the time came.
‘The parties have had months (indeed, years) to discuss an agreement. They haven’t reached an agreement,’ she continued, alleging that Britney’s tactics were designed to delay the start of the trial; seen in 2012 with his ex-wife Lynne Spears
Jamie previously requested that Britney cover her legal fees in March 2021, but they have so far failed to resolve the request nearly three years later; seen in 2019 in Los Angeles
‘Britney wasted more than two years practicing motions regarding the threatened deposition of nonpartisan Robin Greenhill, setting the deposition for January 29, 2024, and unilaterally canceling the deposition on the Friday afternoon before the deposition ( apparently concluding that the deposition was meaningless). ”the document continued.
‘The Court warned the parties that the trial will not continue. “The parties have already spent a month awaiting meditation and awaiting rulings on outstanding discovery disputes,” the documents read.
‘Every day is essential to ensure that the case continues to move forward and is ready for trial without the need for adjournment. Accordingly, Jamie requests that the Court not stay this action pending the next mediation and keep the trial dates firm.
Although Jamie may want to simply conclude the trial, since the conservatorship has already ended for years, he also has financial incentives to avoid delays, since the bills for his expensive legal advisors will increase the longer the process lasts.
That may hit him particularly hard, since Spears and Rosengart have resisted his requests that she cover their legal fees.
In a statement she gave in court shortly before her conservatorship ended, Britney charged that the agreement prevented her from marrying her then-boyfriend Sam Asghari.
Britney also said she was denied simple acts of independence, such as being allowed to drive her own car.
In a more shocking moment, she even claimed that she had not been allowed to have her IUD removed.
‘Every day is essential to ensure that the case continues to move forward and is ready for trial without the need for adjournment. Accordingly, Jamie requests that the Court not stay this action pending the upcoming mediation and hold the trial dates firm,” his filing continued.
Britney accused her father of enriching himself from her guardianship while forcing her to work at an unsustainable pace.
She claimed in court in 2021 that she was not allowed to marry her then-boyfriend Sam Asghari and that the agreement prevented her from having her IUD removed so she could become pregnant.
Britney also accused her mother Lynne Spears and sister Jamie Lynn of living off guardianship, although she improved her relationship with them in the following years; seen on a recent Instagram
‘I want to be able to get married and have a baby,’ she said during a guardianship hearing in 2021. ‘I was told right now in the guardianship that I can’t get married or have a baby, I have an IUD inside me right now so I don’t get pregnant.’
In her memoir The Woman In Me, published in October last year, Spears shared claims that her father called her “fat” and accused him and his associates of “having control over my body and my money” for 13 years. which made her “feel sick.”
He also accused his father of enriching himself with his wealth.
He also accused his mother Lynne Spears and younger sister Jamie Lynn Spears of living off guardianship, although he somewhat improved his relationship with them in the years that followed.